Temperatures crossed 1.5°C for the whole of 2023; last month hottest January on record, say EU scientists

While the world has not yet breached the Paris Agreement target (an average global temperature over decades), it is moving ever closer to it

Sea levels along Indian coast rising at faster rate than global average: WMO report

Such a sea-level rise could have major consequences for the millions of people living along the Indian coastline

Monsoon 2021: Skewed withdrawal again; do we blame climate change?

The southwest monsoon season may withdraw later than normal in 2021, an event that would happen for 11th year in a row

Where does monsoon get over 200 lakh crore buckets of water from?

Although it is assumed most of the water comes from the Indian Ocean, a significant amount of rain over the Ganga basin and northeast India is …

2015 El Niño strongest since 1997-98, says international weather agency

El Niño is one of the main drivers of the climate system and contributes to extreme weather events around the world

El Niño gathers strength, likely to continue into winter: Japan Met agency

There are fears that a strong El Niño this year like the one in 1997-98, will push up food inflation across South and Southeast Asia

Waiting for El Niño

Going against the predictions of other meteorological agencies in the world, Japan Meteorological Agency took a bold step by announcing the onset …

Sluggish monsoon worries India Inc

If the monsoons fail this year, the Modi government will have some serious policy-making, damage control and number crunching to do

Simply unpredictable

Despite using satellites and supercomputers, meteorologists are still baffled by the monsoon, unable to say precisely when it will occur and how …

Monsoon 2023: August, September to be drier than normal for most of India, predicts IMD

Rainfall deficit in a third of the districts in the country, may worsen due to El Nino

July 2015 is Earth’s hottest month ever recorded

Ocean surfaces across the world also experienced record warmth

The ill effects

Warming climate spawns disease epidemics

Lethal messenger

El Niño brings deadly disease to South America

Indigenous knowledge is vital in the fight against climate change: IPCC report

The IPCC’s latest report cites various instances of how fast-vanishing indigenous knowledge is an important tool to mitigate the climate crisis

Warmer winters in India: La Nina events may be getting hotter than El Nino, say experts

La Niña conditions in the Pacific fading, may lead to a rise in global temperatures, say experts

Dousing flames

The Uttarakhand forest fires that lasted for over 100 days should come as a warning to the rest of India since half of its forests are vulnerable …

India to see hotter than normal summer in 2016: IMD

The outlook has also warned of an increased probability of heat waves across the country during the summer as the prevailing El Nino weakens

Parts of India received more than 10 times of normal rains in March, April: IMD

Private weather forecaster predicts normal monsoon for 2015 despite El Nino developing in the eastern Pacific

Central America reeling under severe drought

The drought has killed 30,000 cattle in Colombia, destroyed 70 per cent corn crop in Honduras

India to receive less rainfall, strong El Nino predicted

North-west India will be worst sufferer; IMD forecast says the region will receive only 85 per cent of normal rains

Armageddon

The fires in the Amazon forest show no signs of abating. Lax environmental laws have added fuel to them

IMD forecasts deficient monsoon for 2015, drought fears grow

Monsoon expected over Kerala by June 5, late by at least a week

Bleached to death

As ocean waters get warmer, coral reefs look even paler this year

Warmer days Down Under

Why does it feel like pre- or post-monsoon in the middle of monsoon?

Imposition of ongoing El Nino event in equatorial Pacific Ocean on a generally warmer planet may be the reason for this strange behaviour