Mountaineers walk past the Iver glacier close to the El Plomo mountain summit, in the Andes mountain range, in the Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile. File. | Photo Credit: Reuters Recent glacier retreat across the Andes is unprecedented in the history of human civilization, according to a new study published in the Science journal on Thursday….
Bengal florican in Manas National Park. Photo: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT GUWAHATI A natural process of change in grassland type, hastened by human interference, is robbing the critically endangered Bengal florican of its hiding and mating spaces in the best of its remaining few habitats in India, a new study said. Among the heaviest of the flying…
Parliament on Wednesday took up a discussion on Wayanad landslide under a âcalling attentionâ motion. In his response, Union Home Minister Amit Shah made several claims on early warning systems in India and how they were utilised to alert the Kerala government ahead of the tragedy. The Hindu takes a closer look at these claims….
Southern yellow-billed hornbills struggle to breed at high temperatures. | Photo Credit: Nicholas B. Pattinson, Special arrangement Rapid climate change has the potential to strongly influence the physiology, behaviour and breeding success of animals. Research is showing that increasing temperatures, for instance, are having negative effects on animals. These range from mass die-off events during…
With plans for athletes to swim the Seine River through the heart of Paris, Olympic organizers essentially bet against climate changeâs extreme weather. For several days it appeared they would lose â by ditching the swimming portion of triathlon races. It wasnât until early Wednesday, after the menâs race had been postponed a day and…
Increasing tree cover is often seen as a positive outcome of biodiversity conservation, and a much-needed effort to combat climate change. What happens, then, if tree cover increases in areas that historically hosted a different habitat? In a study published on June 5 in the journal Global Change Biology, scientists of the Universities of Witwatersrand,…
On July 30, the Madurai bench of the Madras High Court is set to conduct the next hearing on multiple petitions filed by and on behalf of workers of the Manjolai estate in Tirunelveli district, Tamil Nadu. What is happening at the estate? Nestled deep within the Kalakkad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve in Tirunelveli, the Manjolai…
In the unrelenting heat of Moroccoâs Middle Atlas, people were sleeping on rooftops. Hanna Ouhbour needed refuge too, but she was outside a hospital waiting for her diabetic cousin who was in a room without air conditioning. On Wednesday, there were 21 heat-related deaths at Beni Mellalâs main hospital as temperatures spiked to 48.3 degrees…
A man sweeps the mud off the alley following floods brought by Typhoon Gaemi, in San Mateo town, Rizal province, Philippines, July 25, 2024. | Photo Credit: Lisa Marie David/Reuters What was Typhoon Gaemi has weakened to a severe tropical storm and headed toward inland China on Friday after making landfall the previous evening on…
Researchers measure methane exchange on upland trees in Peru. | Photo Credit: Vincent Gauci (CC BY-ND) Tree bark in the worldâs forests absorbs the greenhouse gas methane, my colleagues and I have demonstrated for the first time on a global scale â a discovery that could have big implications for tackling climate change. As trees…
