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Study: Climate change worsened California wildfires

Study: Climate change worsened California wildfires

Human-caused climate change increased the likelihood and intensity of the hot, dry and windy conditions that fanned the...

29 Jan 2025 10:28 AM IST

2024 hottest recorded year, crossed global warming limit

2024 hottest recorded year, crossed global warming limit

GENEVA: The last two years saw average temperatures exceed a critical warming limit for the first time, Europe's climate...

11 Jan 2025 9:26 AM IST

Prez Murmu hails teachings of Buddhism

Prez Murmu hails teachings of Buddhism

New Delhi: The Buddhist community has much to offer to mankind at a time when the world is facing strife and climate...

5 Nov 2024 1:30 PM IST

Planet on the brink, with new heat records likely in 2024: UN

Planet on the brink, with new heat records likely in 2024: UN

GENEVA: Global temperatures "smashed" heat records last year, as heatwaves stalked oceans and glaciers suffered record...

20 March 2024 8:22 AM IST

COP28 president Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber (C) and United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Executive Secretary Simon Stiell (L) and other officials attend a plenary session during the United Nations climate summit in Dubai on December 13, 2023. (AFP)

COP28 Seals Deal on Fossil Fuels

Dubai: Nearly 200 countries on Wednesday clinched a deal that called for a "transition away from fossil...

14 Dec 2023 2:42 AM IST

World Must Prepare for More Intense Heatwaves: UN

World Must Prepare for More Intense Heatwaves: UN

The world should prepare to face increasingly intense heatwaves, the United Nations warned on Tuesday, as countries...

19 July 2023 3:23 AM IST

People warm themselves with a bonfire on a cold winter night in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

Winter to hit Telangana by November 10

Hyderabad: Did the sudden chill catch you off guard, forcing you to dig out your woollens earlier that you expected?...

4 Nov 2022 11:56 PM IST

An artist paints a mural based on Covid-19 coronavirus safety protocols on the walls of an underpass during an ongoing weekend curfew imposed in New Delhi. (Photo: AFP)

Patralekha Chatterjee | Do our recent health crises offer teachable...

It is a global warning. The cosy thought that “it-can’t-happen-here” is past its expiry date. It can,...

30 July 2022 12:22 AM IST

A drop of water falls off an iceberg melting in the Nuup Kangerlua Fjord near Nuuk in southwestern Greenland, Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017. Earths poles are undergoing simultaneous freakish extreme heat with parts of Antarctica more than 70 degrees (40 degrees Celsius) warmer than average and areas of the Arctic more than 50 degrees (30 degrees Celsius) warmer than average. (AP Photo)

Hot poles: Antarctica, Arctic 70 and 50 degrees above normal

Weather stations in Antarctica shattered records Friday as the region neared autumn

20 March 2022 2:30 PM IST

Some of us, you see, have been left with Long Covid, and almost all of us with Long Anxiety, which is not just another fallout of the pandemic, but a pandemic in its own right. (Photo by arrangement)

Shreya Sen-Handley | Mothersâ€™ dreams, and why they must be taken...

The climate crisis, the pandemic, this new war, are REAL, and soâ€™s the anxiety!

20 March 2022 12:30 AM IST