Alaska sees record temperatures in heatwave
An "all-time high" temperature record has been set in the US state of Alaska, despite much of the country sitting in the Arctic circle. Temperatures peaked at 32.22 Celsius (90F) on 4 July at an airport
Glacial Melt
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Black carbon
Black carbon - a presentation by Anumita Roychowdhury at CSE Annual South Asian Media Briefing Workshop on Climate Change, 2013 held in New Delhi from September 18-19, 2013.
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Managing disasters, sustaining development in the Hindu Kush Himalayas
Managing disasters, sustaining development in the Hindu Kush Himalayas - a presentation by Aditi Mukherji at CSE Annual South Asian Media Briefing Workshop on Climate Change, 2013 held in New Delhi from
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Majority of climate change news stories focus on uncertainty, study finds
About eight in 10 stories contain some discussion of uncertainties and risk, according to Oxford analysis The uncertainties of climate change science have become a major focus of media coverage on the
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Case for climate change is overwhelming, say scientists
Eleven days before the IPCC publishes its latest report, a group of eminent scientists says there is massive evidence of human responsibility With the IPCC report not yet published, there is already
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Leaked Report Spotlights Big Climate Change Assessment
A leaked early version of a major forthcoming report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the United Nations-affiliated panel of scientists that is often cited as the world's top
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Antarctic ice core reveals how last ice age ended
Analysis of an Antarctic ice core has revealed that warming in the frozen continent began about 22,000 years ago, a few thousand years earlier than suggested by earlier records. The new research shows
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Is dust pollution speeding up melting of Himalayan glaciers?
The International Association of Cryospheric Sciences (IACS) proposes to set up a working group to study the impact of dust and black carbon from forest fires on the accelerated melting of snow and glaciers
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Shrinking glaciers won’t affect South Asia water availability: study
Glacier systems that feed two key rivers in South Asia will badly retreat this century, but demands for water are still likely to be met, a study predicted on Sunday.The health of glaciers in the Himalayas
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Climate change bringing heavy rain, landslides to Siachen area: Study
Observing that extreme rainfall events in the Karakorams, which hitherto were not known in this area, have started occurring with alarming frequency, a research paper has stated that this phenomenon was
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Arctic meltdown to cost global economy $60tn
London: The melting Arctic is now being called an “economic time bomb”. Economic modelling shows methane emissions caused by shrinking sea ice from just one area of the Arctic could come with a global