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Odia Woman Gets Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Praise For Making Solar Energy Medium Of Employment

Kunni Deori, a daughter from Odisha, is making solar energy a medium of employment for her as well as for other women. Kunni lives in Kardapal...

UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath Asks Devotees To Not Cause Pollution, Celebrate Chhath In Environment-Friendly Manner

Air Pollution2 years ago

UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath Asks Devotees To Not Cause Pollution, Celebrate Chhath In Environment-Friendly Manner

Mr. Yogi further assured that the government and administration have made foolproof arrangements for the convenience of devotees during the festival and utmost importance has been...

Heat Waves Due To Climate Change Have Cost World Economy Trillions So Far: Study

Climate Change2 years ago

Heat Waves Due To Climate Change Have Cost World Economy Trillions So Far: Study

Researchers discovered that from 1992 to 2013, heat waves statistically correlated with changes in economic growth and that the negative effects of extreme heat on human...

India's Per Capita Greenhouse Gas Emissions Far Below World Average: UNEP Report

Climate Change2 years ago

India’s Per Capita Greenhouse Gas Emissions Far Below World Average: UNEP Report

India remains far below the world average at 2.4 tCO2e. On average, least developed countries emit 2.3 tCO2e per capita annually, the report said

World Faces 2.8°C Rise After 'Woefully Inadequate' Climate Pledges, UN Says

Climate Change2 years ago

World Faces 2.8°C Rise After ‘Woefully Inadequate’ Climate Pledges, UN Says

Policies in place, without strengthening, will likely lead to a 2.8°C rise in temperature by the end of the century, 0.1°C higher than was estimated last...

Heatwave Batters India As Temperature Remains Above Normal

Climate Change2 years ago

Heat-Related Deaths Up By 68 Per Cent Between 2000-04 And 2017-21: Lancet Report

According to the report, brought out by Lancet Countdown, extreme weather events caused damage worth USD 253 billion in 2021, particularly burdening people in low human...

COP27: World On Track To Increase Emissions By 10.6% By 2030, States UN Report

Climate Change2 years ago

COP27: World On Track To Increase Emissions By 10.6% By 2030, States UN Report

The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says a 43 per cent reduction in emissions by 2030 is needed to limit warming to 1.5 Celsius above...

Actor Bhumi Pednekar Warns About Climate Crisis, Says It’s A ‘Looming Threat To Humanity’

जलवायु परिवर्तन2 years ago

भूमि पेडनेकर ने दी जलवायु संकट पर चेतावनी, कहा- यह ‘मानवता के लिए खतरा’

भूमि पेडनेकर ने कहा कि लोगों को अपने कामों के लिए जिम्मेदार बनना और जलवायु संकट को कम करने के हल का हिस्सा बनना चाहिए

Concentrated Stubble Burning Around Diwali May Compound Problem: Centre for Science and Environment

Air Pollution2 years ago

Concentrated Stubble Burning Around Diwali May Compound Problem: Centre for Science and Environment

The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) a cocktail of emissions from firecrackers and stubble burning in neighbouring states deplete the air quality

PM Modi Gives 'Reduce, Reuse, Recycle' Mantra; Says Climate Change Goes Beyond Policy-Making

Climate Change2 years ago

PM Modi Gives ‘Reduce, Reuse, Recycle’ Mantra; Says Climate Change Goes Beyond Policy-Making

PM Modi asked people to adopt the concept of 'reduce, reuse and recycle' and circular economy and said India is committed to tackling the menace of...

Washington: A study suggested that Upper ocean heating in the equatorial Pacific - a key oceanographic region in Earth's climate system - is likely to make the East Asian monsoon season wetter. The study was published in the journal, 'Nature'. Recent increases in ocean heat content - where energy is absorbed by the waters - have been implicated in the intensification of tropical storms that draw their energy from the surface of the ocean. The link between ocean heating and rainfall on land is, however, less clear. "Our study suggests variations in ocean thermal structure affect the delivery of moisture, latent heat, and what happens when they arrive on land," said Yair Rosenthal, a professor of marine and coastal sciences in the Rutgers' School of Art and Sciences and School of Environmental and Biological Sciences. Rosenthal said the changes in the latitudinal temperature gradient - the difference in sea-surface temperature between low and high latitudes - not only control how energy is absorbed by the equatorial upper ocean but how winds carry the moisture from the ocean onto land. The study, led by Zhimin Jian of Tongji University in China, found that over the past 360,000 years, increases in monsoonal rain in eastern China correlated with increases in the heat content of the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool-a region where sea surface temperatures remain above ~82°F year-round-likely due to enhanced transport of moisture and latent heat absorbed in the water vapor from the ocean to the continent. According to the study, the changes in upper ocean heat content follow shifts in the Earth's orbit that occur about every 23,000 years and change the distribution of incoming solar radiation at each latitude. By using two foraminifera species, calcareous marine organisms, one a surface dweller and the other that lives approximately 200 meters below the sea surface, the scientists reconstructed how the upper ocean thermal structure gets its heat and energy. They compared their results with climate model simulations and reconstructions of the monsoonal precipitation in eastern China for the same period. The coupling of ocean heat content and monsoon variations, both coordinated by insolation changes at astronomical timescales, is critical for regulating the global hydroclimate, the researchers said.

Climate Change2 years ago

Ocean Heating Can Increase Rainfall In East Asia: Study

According to the study, the changes in upper ocean heat content follow shifts in the Earth's orbit that occur about every 23,000 years and change the...

Concern About Climate Change Shrinks Globally As Threat Grows: Study

Climate Change2 years ago

Concern About Climate Change Shrinks Globally As Threat Grows: Study

Annually, air pollution has cost the world $8.1 trillion, or 6.1 per cent of global gross domestic product, causing between 6 to 9 million death, the...