Global Warming

Global Warming
Svalbard is warming five to seven times faster than on the planet as a whole, meteorologists say.

Warming climate upends Arctic mining town

Climate change meant shorter winters; temperatures that yo-yo; more frequent precipitation, increasingly in the form of rain; and thawing permafrost

Professor Saiful Islam, director, Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM)

Interview Record rain in Meghalaya behind Sylhet floods

There is a humanitarian crisis underway in the Sylhet region. The region has been affected by consecutive floods. Prothom Alo spoke with professor Saiful Islam, director, Institute of Water and Flood ...

Fighting against climate change in Bangladesh.

Bangladesh, other climate-battered nations hunt elusive cash at UN talks

International finance for adaptation, at little more than $20 billion a year, remains far below the annual $70 billion developing countries are estimated to need - an amount that could rise to $300 ...

A worker holding a Swiss flag that removed at the end of the season next to the ice cave watches the Rhone Glacier partially covered with insulating foam to prevent it from melting due to global warming near Gletsch on 27 October, 2021

Climate talks test global resolve on warming

Negotiators from almost 200 countries will meet in Bonn Monday for climate talks tasked with reigniting momentum on tackling global warming, as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine overshadows the threat ...

An aerial view of the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of the Whitsunday Islands, along the central coast of Queensland

Summer heatwave bleaches 91 per cent of Great Barrier Reef: report

A prolonged summer heatwave in Australia left 91 percent of the Great Barrier Reef’s coral damaged by bleaching, according to a new government monitoring report

While the tropical oceans would lose the most species, many from these areas would migrate to higher latitudes in order to survive, a study said on Thursday.

Study predicts mass marine life extinction if warming continues

While the tropical oceans would lose the most species, many from these areas would migrate to higher latitudes in order to survive

A representational image of cactus

Global warming even cacti can't take the heat

Sixty percent of cactus species will wind up in less hospitable climates over the coming decades as global warming sets in, according to new research challenging the long-held assumption the iconic ...

A photo taken on 6 December 2021 shows high-tide flooding in the Marshall Islands capital Majuro. A swathe of Pacific island nations were cleaning up on 8 December 2021 after storms and tidal surges caused widespread flooding, with rising seas blamed for the inundation in the climate-change affected region.

UN to release handbook of climate change solutions

UN climate experts are set to release what is expected to be the definitive guide to halting global warming on Monday, in a report that lays out how societies and economies must transform to ensure a ...

A man removes stalks from red chillis peppers at a farm in Shertha village on the outskirts of Ahmedabad in India on 5 February 2018.

Red chilli pepper prices surge on crop damage in top exporter India

The prices of red chilli peppers are surging as output in top exporter India is set to drop by a fifth from a year ago, hit by an invasive pest attack and damage from unseasonal rain in key southern ...

The coastal area is seen flooded after the embankment is destroyed as the cyclone Amphan makes its landfall in Satkhira, Bangladesh on 21 May 2020.

Bangladesh unable to adapt to climate change: IPCC study

Growing disasters including natural calamities are waiting for Bangladesh in the coming days. So, UN climate and other funds will have to increase for countries like Bangladesh

A man walks past a advertising in relation with the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) where world leaders discuss how to tackle climate change on a global scale, near the conference area in Glasgow Scotland, Britain on 30 October 2021.

As climate change wreaks havoc globally, IPCC report flags ways to adapt

Worse is to come, faster than expected, even if efforts to curb global warming are stepped up, a flagship UN climate science report is expected to warn at the end of this month

In this picture taken on 19 September 2021, climate refugee Bibi Salma (L) sits with her family inside her temporary home at a shanty settlement in Dhaka

Incomes dip for South Asia's women home workers as heat rises

Rising heat and heavier rains across South Asia, as the planet warms, are forcing home-based women workers to cut down on hours as their houses get hotter or are flooded often, resulting in a loss of ...

Temperature anomalies in 2021, compared to the 1981-2010 average

2021 among seven hottest years on record: UN

The past seven years have been the hottest on record, the United Nations confirmed Wednesday, adding that 2021 temperatures remained high despite the cooling effect of the La Nina weather phenomenon.

Sun rays shine through trees in a forest near Biere, Switzerland on 26 September

Dimming Sun's rays should be off-limits, say experts

Planetary-scale engineering schemes designed to cool Earth's surface and lessen the impact of global heating are potentially dangerous and should be blocked by governments, more than 60 policy ...

his aerial file photo taken on September 20, 2018 shows boats beside a jetty on the dried out bed of the Brenet Lake (French: Lac des Brenets) part of the Doubs river, a natural border beetwen eastern France and western Switzerland, on 20 September, 2018 in Les Brenets

Last 7 years 'warmest on record' globally: EU

The last seven years have been the hottest on record globally "by a clear margin", the European Union's climate monitoring service reported Monday, as it raised the alarm over sharp increases in ...

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