Ozone and UV bulletin
The stratosphere ozone layer is slowly recovering and the recovery will be complete in most parts of the atmosphere in the coming decades, according to the latest bulletin by the World Meteorological Organization
Atmosphere And Ozone Layer
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El Niño to peak within next month
Climate troublemaker El Niño's strength — already tied for the most powerful on record — will peak within the next month before weakening in the spring, according to a forecast issued Thursday. That
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Africa Focus: El Nino threatens life disruption in Mozambique
Mozambique is one of many countries feeling the strain of El Nino, which has dried up rainfall across southern Africa over the last year, killing crops and disrupting hydropower production. Although
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Environmental effects of ozone depletion and its interactions with climate change: progress report 2015
The Parties to the Montreal Protocol are informed by three Panels of experts. One of these is the Environmental Effects Assessment Panel (EEAP), which deals with two focal issues. The first focus is the
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''Aerosols, land-use changes may greatly weaken monsoon''
The South Asian Monsoon has been weakening since the 1950s with an increased incidence of extreme rainfall events. Now, a paper in the journal Climate Dynamics lead authored by Dr. R. Krishnan attributes
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Record hot end to 2015 for Australia as giant El Nino dominates
Australia has posted its hottest end to any year as the impact of one of the biggest El Ninos on record began to be felt across the continent. Mean temperatures were 0.36 degrees above the previous
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Uganda to Install 85 Weather Stations
Parliament — A total of 85 weather stations will be installed in Uganda over the next two years under a $1m project by the Trans-African Hydro-Meteorological Observatory (TAHMO) in an effort to tackle
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Winter out cold: Dec '15 was India's hottest ever
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) recorded hottest December in last 114 years in 2015 despite several parts of the country experiencing cold wave conditions in that month. The period from September
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2015: Warmest year ends on ‘warm note’
Minimum temperatures expected to remain above normal into the New Year as well The last day of the warmest year ever recorded, and perhaps also the “rockiest” given the number of quakes that rattled
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Mild, wet December breaks Met Office weather records
Long-standing weather records have been smashed by a stormy, yet warm December, the Met Office's early figures suggest. Scotland, Wales and the north-west of England all had the wettest December in
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Extreme times: world's weather is on a weird track that will continue into 2016
From rain, hail and soaring temperatures to a tornado - this year's weather had it all. If Santa really did reside at the North Pole, he could probably have doffed his thick coat for a few hours this