Climate change threatens US military capabilities, say experts

Militaries around the world have started acknowledging the security risks posed by climate change

Cold and calculating: what the two different types of ice do to sea levels

What matters most for sea levels is how much ice slides off the land and melts in the sea

Going under

New lease of life

New address

मैंग्रोव वनों को हो रहा है नुकसान, बढ़ता समुद्र स्तर और लोग है जिम्मेदार: अध्ययन

अध्ययन में पाया गया कि मैंग्रोव के जंगल, उनकी जैव विविधता और उनके द्वारा प्रदान की जाने वाली तटीय सुरक्षा पर तीन अलग-अलग खतरों ...

First casualty

Rising sea levels force Tuvaluans to find new homes

US homes, businesses worth $1 trillion at flood risk

Climate change is making sea levels rise, which is putting 2.5 million properties along the coast at a risk of chronic flooding

Climate change impacts will not wait for slow government negotiations like Bonn

By 2018 end, the Paris Agreement rule book has to be finalised. But efforts to finalise these set of rules at Bonn was marred by tardy pace and …

Are we measuring sea level changes correctly? There is room for doubt

Assessment of sea-level rise might actually be underestimating the total changes in the sea by up to 8 per cent

Many small island nations can adapt to climate change with global support

Although climate change threatens the world's small island nations, many can adapt and preserve their homes and cultures – especially if …

Hurricanes of the future might have increased potential for catastrophic events

Climate science predicts a definite increase in the frequency of hurricanes, their intensity and duration due to warming of the ocean surfaces

A plan to install 10 million fans for "refreezing" Arctic

The plan costs a massive US $400 billion, but is this what we need? 

After US, rising sea level may soon gobble up an entire island in Canada

Land bigger than 300 football fields has been swallowed by the sea within the span of a few generations

Sea-level rise has claimed five whole islands in the Pacific: first scientific evidence

Twelve islands we studied in a low wave energy area of Solomon Islands experienced little noticeable change in shorelines despite being exposed …

South Asia

समुद्र के जल स्तर में वृद्धि के लिए इंसान हैं जिम्मेवार

आज समुद्र के जल स्तर में जो वृद्धि हो रही है, वो पृथ्वी की कक्षा में होने वाले परिवर्तन की वजह से नहीं है| ...

Impacts: The hare and the tortoise

While findings on the impacts of climate change get bleaker and bleaker, the negotiations still hobble along at a snail's pace.

Climate change 'hitting harder and sooner' than forecast: Report

Global temperatures have risen by 1.1°C since 1850, and have increased 0.2°C between 2011 and 2015

Sea level rise is not constant; in fact, it is accelerating each year: study

By the end of the century, sea levels would rise at a rate of 10 mm or more every year as opposed to 3 mm estimated earlier

Sea level changes that occurred 6,000 years ago may happen again; Southeast Asia at risk

Natural causes can further aggravate the effects of rise in sea level combined with human-assisted climate change

2011-2015: mighty hot five-year period

A study by the World Meteorological Organization analyses this five-year period for a better understanding of multi-year warming trends and …

The lateral push

India must think in parallel because extreme weather events—both known and unknown—are becoming the order of the day

Shrinking coastline

CMZ dropped