Climate Change

Climate change is amplifying the effects of La Niña, resulting in more intense storms, severe flooding and prolonged extreme weather conditions, experts said, warning of increasingly unpredictable natural disasters. Le Thi Xuan Lan, a former deputy head of forecasting at the Southern Region Hydro-Meteorological Center, said typhoon Yagi occurred during the transition from ENSO (neutral) …

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Climate change is turning the humid rainforest of the western Amazon into an ecosystem nearly 30 times more prone to fire, according to the 2023-2024 State of Wildfires report. The study shows that between March 2023 and February 2024, rising temperatures, reduced rainfall, drier air and less resilient forests set up the region for a fire …

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The complete disappearance of snow this year is being attributed to scanty rainfall and patchy snowfall in the upper Himalayas over the past five years For the first time in recorded history, Uttarakhand’s Om Parvat was entirely devoid of snow last week, raising concerns among visitors about the unusual event. Pictures shared by neighbouring residents …

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People don’t need “climate emergency” or “global boiling” to make them worried. They’re already worried. Five years ago, when young people started skipping school on Fridays to protest rising carbon emissions, some climate advocates sensed a disconnect. The words commonly used to describe how fossil fuels were heating the planet — climate change, global warming …

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84% of Indian districts are exposed to extreme heat wave and rising temperature Over 84 per cent of Indian districts are prone to extreme heat waves, of which 70 per cent of them are witnessing increased frequency and intensity of extreme rainfall events, according to a first-of-its-kind independent study released by the IPE-Global and Esri …

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