India has lost 2.33 million hectares of tree cover since 2000

Environment

The other side of Vantara

Many Asian countries experienced their hottest year on record in 2023, along with a barrage of extreme conditions, from droughts and heat waves to floods and storms (photo: IANS)

Environment

Asia world's most disaster-prone region in 2023: WMO

According to officials, the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) has initiated efforts to clear the road (representative image) (photo: PTI)

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Uttarakhand: Glacier melts above Munsiyari, cuts off Indo–China road

Rain scrubs the aerosols out of the sky in much the same way as a washing machine acts to clean clothes (photo: National Herald archives)

Environment

The Southern Ocean has the cleanest air on Earth. We have just discovered why

The ice melting was measured by satellite gravity (photo: National Herald archives)

World

Ice melting in Antarctica affecting Earth's rotation and timekeeping: Study

Warming rates are expressed as change in the state-average temperature since 1970 (photo: IANS)

Environment

Record-breaking global warming leads to missing spring in India

Glacial lake distribution in the Hindu Kush Himalayas (image courtesy @ICCInet/X)

Environment

Winter snow deficit poses growing risk of GLOFs in Himalayas

A houseboat on the river Jhelum 
is stranded as water levels 
dip to a 70-year low (photo: Green Stories/ Raashid Andrabi)

Environment

No snow in the Himalayas, why India should worry

IANS Photo

Environment

Glacial lakes worldwide expanding fast since 1990: Study

The Third Pole, encompass the Tibetan Plateau and surrounding mountain ranges (photo: Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Environment

Risk of glacial lake outburst floods in 'Third Pole' increasing: Study

El Nino typically leads to warmer-than-average sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean, affecting weather worldwide. (photo: IANS)

Environment

2023-24 El Nino among five strongest on record, will continue fuelling heat in 2024: WMO

Once quite common, the black-winged kite is suffering the impact of our pesticide use and is now categorised as 'declining' (illustration: Peeyush Sekhsaria)

Environment

No blue skies, too few Neelkanths—another canary in India’s coal mine?

The World Economic Forum (WEF) report highlights the severe consequences of climate change, projecting an additional 14.5 million deaths and $12.5 trillion in economic losses by 2050. (photo: DW)

Environment

Climate change may claim 14.5 mn lives by 2050: WEF