Record ocean warming in 2021, coastal communities should be on alert: Study

This heating will continue until we reach net-zero carbon emissions, say experts

Look what’s swelling the sea

Use of groundwater accounts for 0.8 mm sea level rise

India, Bangladesh to save Sunderbans

Sea level rise submerges disputed island in the Bay of Bengal

To predict future sea level rise, we need accurate maps of the world’s most remote fjords

Estimating how much mass will be lost is often highlighted as glaciology’s grand challenge as it constitutes a large uncertainty …

Global heating to put 600 million Indians at ‘greatest future risk’: Study

Nearly a billion people could be protected from dangerous heat if countries manage to contain global heating to 1.5C, the threshold of the Paris …

Homeless, displaced, devastated: People in Pakistan’s flood-hit Sindh narrate tales of horror & loss

Climate change-induced sea-level rise and heavy downpour behind this unprecendented calamity, say experts

Climate Emergency CoP 25: Global mean sea level highest-ever in 2019

The State of Global Climate 2019 says that this is yet another sign of the world being in a climate emergency

Rising temperature to reduce GDP, living standards in Sri Lanka: World Bank

Northern, north-western provinces in Sri Lanka are the most likely to experience increases in average temperature and more variable precipitation …

Warnings from the past: Sea levels will rise, 78 Indian cities to see floods

While more than a century-old data projects a warmer world, India still needs a proper regional data on climate vulnerability

Will the Paris climate deal include issue of forced climate migration?

Experts say that displacement and migration occurs because of the failure of adaptation in most vulnerable countries and, therefore, should be …

Study shows sea defences not enough to protect deltaic cities from flood risk

Deltas are natural sites for cities to grow as they offer direct access to the sea and upriver to the hinterland

Corals are starting to bleach as global ocean temperatures hit record highs

If corals stay bleached, they can become energetically compromised and ultimately die

Global population exposed to floods grew over 20% in 15 years: Study

The growth was concentrated in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa

Climate change leads to worst mangrove destruction in Australia

Some 7,000 hectares or nine per cent of the mangroves were destroyed in one month

India prone to vector-borne diseases, heatwaves, say experts

A good weather prediction system can go a long way to raise public awareness

Odisha’s model colony for climate refugees in Kendrapara should be emulated across India

More than 45 million people in the country will be forced to migrate due to environmental disruptions by 2050 

Humanity’s tipping point? How the Queen’s death stole a climate warning’s thunder

A study published in Science heralded changes that could threaten the future of civil society on this planet but it was Queen’s death …

Maldives can adapt to sea-level rise. Here’s how

New study supports raising island height, building new habitations to save Maldives, low-lying areas

Kenya’s Rift Valley lakes are rising, putting thousands at risk — we now know why

Surprisingly minor changes in the water balance are enough to explain the lake level rises, finds study

How does land motion, ice height impact sea-level rise? NASA shows in maps

In maps: How Earth’s surface mass in August 2020 deviated from average for all months between 2004 and 2009; spatial variations in the …

Eroding coasts need protection—and new solutions are at hand

Seawalls and other common strategies to control erosion don’t always protect the land. Another possibility? Living shorelines

Why remote Antarctica is so important in a warming world

Given what rising sea levels could mean for the world, we must maintain our longstanding view of Antarctica as the most remote continent

Towards breaking point

The imminent calving of ice shelf, Larsen C, will reduce Antarctica to its smallest ever size. Is global warming responsible?

Sedimental attraction

A drowning delta can be rescued by changing the nature of its sediments, new theory claims

Upper oceans hottest in 2020 despite lower emissions due to COVID-19 lockdowns

Heat content was 20 zetta joules higher than in 2019