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Bonn Climate Change Conference begins: Everything you need to knowSubscriber Only

June 17, 2025 12:04 IST

The Bonn Climate Change Conference is an annual mid-year meeting that takes place under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) — an international agreement, signed in 1992, that has provided a basis for climate negotiations.

How extreme heat is affecting IndiaSubscriber Only

June 18, 2025 11:19 IST

People living in Delhi, Maharashtra, Goa, Kerala, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, and Uttar Pradesh face the highest risk from heat in the country, according to a new study

Following heavy rainfall last week, labourers worked to clear the stormwater drains along the Eastern Express Highway in mumbai.

Why have rains subsided in Mumbai after a historic early onset?Subscriber Only

June 3, 2025 16:55 IST

The IMD said Mumbai and its neighbouring districts will continue to experience only light showers for the next five days. Just a week ago, Mumbai witnessed its earliest onset of monsoon in decades.

How the Madden-Julian Oscillation helped trigger the early onset of the monsoonSubscriber Only

May 28, 2025 09:29 IST

The phenomenon takes its name from the two scientists who identified it in 1971 — Roland Madden and Paul Julian, who then worked at the National Centre for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado.

Bow echo, Delhi rain, radar, climate change

What is a bow echo, how did it signal Delhi’s fierce storm?Subscriber Only

May 27, 2025 20:29 IST

A bow echo is a radar signature of a high wind-driven storm front which forms due to strong winds pushing the centre of the storm line forward, indicating intense straight-line winds.

As early monsoon hits Mumbai, the key factor: Madden-Julian OscillationSubscriber Only

May 27, 2025 20:30 IST

Mumbai Monsoon 2025: This is the earliest that the monsoon has arrived in Mumbai. The normal date of monsoon onset in Mumbai is June 11. Here are the factors that led to this.

Visitors at Vizhinjam fishing harbour during rain, in Thiruvananthapuram, Saturday, May 24, 2025, as the southwest monsoon hit Kerala.

What caused an ‘early’ monsoon onset in India this year?Subscriber Only

May 27, 2025 06:48 IST

Monsoon Update in India: Multiple, large-scale atmosphere-oceanic and local factors developed and favoured the early monsoon onset this year. Here is what to know.

EV climate solution, greenhouse gas emissions, greenhouse gases, electric vehicles, pollution problem, Royal Society of Chemistry, Indian express explained, explained news, current affairs

Tyre particles: How EVs are a climate solution with pollution problemSubscriber Only

May 24, 2025 07:47 IST

The study, published in Soft Matter, a journal of the Royal Society of Chemistry, has shown that EVs, on account of their greater weight, experience higher wear and tear in their tyres compared to conventional vehicles, and release substantially larger numbers of small plastic particles in the atmosphere.

Wetter & not that hot: Why is summer of 2025 atypical so far?Subscriber Only

May 20, 2025 13:17 IST

IMD summer weather report, India weather trends May 2025: A cooler-than-usual summer over large geographical areas of the country has contributed to keeping all-India average temperatures within the normal range.

How Argentina’s most famous glacier, once unusually stable, is now crumblingSubscriber Only

May 17, 2025 17:04 IST

For several decades the Perito Moreno glacier was unusually stable, unlike other glaciers across the world, amid soaring global temperatures. But this changed around 2020.

Storm in Delhi, floods in hill states: Impact of climate change-induced changing patterns of Western DisturbancesSubscriber Only

May 4, 2025 14:03 IST

Delhi and its surrounding areas woke up to heavy rainfall and strong winds on Friday. They brought relief amid the May heat, but what exactly triggered these unseasonal rains? Does climate change have a role to play?

How draft Greenhouse Gases Emissions Intensity Targets aim to help India meet climate goalsSubscriber Only

April 29, 2025 12:01 IST

What do the Greenhouse Gases Emissions Intensity (GEI) Target Rules, 2025, say? Why are they needed, and how will these targets help India’s carbon credit trading market?

The history and evolution of monsoon forecasting in IndiaSubscriber Only

April 28, 2025 08:11 IST

The efforts to make accurate forecasts of the southwest monsoon go back to 1870s. It is through a long process of trial and error that the IMD has improved its predictions. But there is scope to do better.

Why Europe is warming faster: Causes many, including its cleaner airSubscriber Only

April 21, 2025 09:56 IST

Europe has warmed about twice as much as the world as a whole, the 2024 European State of the Climate Report said. Here are the causes and impact of this.

Ramban rain causes destruction: Understanding the weather events affecting the regionSubscriber Only

April 21, 2025 11:19 IST

Ramban rain destruction: While episodes of heavy rain are often termed “cloudburst”, a cloudburst has a fixed technical definition, and is more common in hilly areas. We explain why.

An emissions trading scheme (ETS) or market is a regulatory tool to cut greenhouse gas emissions, while providing industries with financial incentives to comply with norms and to get them to invest in cleaner technology.

Explained: World’s first market for particulate emissions trading in Gujarat, how it workedSubscriber Only

April 22, 2025 06:57 IST

The study builds on the idea of emissions trading, which has been in operation in Europe since 2005 and in China since 2021, and has at times been criticised.

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With a very hot summer ahead, how prepared is India?Subscriber Only

April 3, 2025 19:27 IST

IMD has said this summer will be extremely warm, and have above-normal heatwave days, which can have severe impacts. Although several states have heat action plans, their implementation is inadequate

Green Credit Programme: What the scheme entails, criticisms against itSubscriber Only

April 2, 2025 15:24 IST

The Centre’s ambitious scheme seeks to invite voluntary participation in sectors ranging from plantations to water conservation in exchange of tradable credits

How global warming is affecting the world’s mountain rangesSubscriber Only

March 26, 2025 09:14 IST

Mountains, which cover 33 million sq km of the Earth’s surface, are crucial for sustaining life on the planet. For instance, around 2 billion people downstream depend on mountains for freshwater resources from melting glaciers

As Donald Trump rolls back paper straws, are plastic straws really so bad for the environment?Subscriber Only

March 14, 2025 18:55 IST

The US government has scrapped paper straws to go back to plastic. So why are the plastic variety restricted in many countries around the world in the first place?

Byrnihat: Northeast industrial hub that has ‘world’s worst air’

Why Byrnihat on Assam-Meghalaya border has ‘world’s worst air’Subscriber Only

March 13, 2025 14:44 IST

The annual average PM2.5 concentration in Byrnihat was 128.2 micrograms per cubic m (µg/m3), many times the World Health Organization’s annual air quality guideline of 5 µg/m3.

Explained: Delhi’s air worst among capitals, Byrnihat’s the world’s most foul, finds new reportSubscriber Only

March 12, 2025 09:23 IST

Thirteen of the world’s 20 most polluted cities are in India, according to the World Air Quality Report for 2024 released by IQAir on Tuesday

Melting Arctic glaciers are a source of methane emissions: What a new study saysSubscriber Only

February 28, 2025 14:57 IST

Methane is one of the main drivers of climate change, responsible for 30 per cent of the warming since preindustrial times, second only to carbon dioxide

Hightide at the seaside Worli village in Mumbai. (Express Archive Photo by Pradeep Kocharekar)

Almost 2 cm of sea level rise this century was due to melting glaciers, says study. Should you be concerned?Subscriber Only

February 23, 2025 13:03 IST

Coastal cities in India have also witnessed the sea level rise in recent years. Mumbai, for instance, has witnessed a rise of 4.44 cm between 1987 and 2021, the worst among Indian cities.

Between 1981 and 2010, Arctic sea ice extent in September — when it reaches its minimum extent — shrunk at a rate of 12.2% per decade, according to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

Why global sea ice cover has dipped to record low — what this meansSubscriber Only

February 20, 2025 15:09 IST

Sea ice refers to the free-floating ice in the polar regions. While it generally expands during the winter and melts in the summers, some sea ice remains year-round. Note that this is different from icebergs, glaciers, ice sheets, and ice shelves, which form on land.

Will go after other targets if no peace, says Trump as US strikes 3 nuclear sites in Iran

WorldJune 25, 2025

President Donald Trump said that the United States military had struck three nuclear-related facilities in Iran, marking a dramatic escalation in the ongoing conflict and a direct American role in efforts to dismantle Tehran’s infrastructure. The strikes represent the most significant direct US military action against Iranian territory in years and come amid rising regional tensions.

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