Sinking islands: NGT asks coastal zone authorities to integrate expert panel recommendations into island management plans

Sinking islands: NGT asks coastal zone authorities to integrate expert panel recommendations into island management plans

The panel was constituted by the Principal Bench of the tribunal after it took suo motu cognizance of The Hindu report titled ‘India’s sinking islands’ published on March 19, 2023. | Photo Credit: K.K. MUSTAFAH The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has decided to issue notices to the Coastal Zone Management Authorities (CZMAs) in the coastal … Read more

Data | Antarctic sea ice cover hits record lows on many days of 2023

Data | Antarctic sea ice cover hits record lows on many days of 2023

This undated handout photo provided by NASA shows the Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctic. Two new studies indicate that part of the huge West Antarctic ice sheet is starting a slow collapse in an unstoppable way. Alarmed scientists say that means even more sea level rise than they figured. | Photo Credit: AP On February … Read more

Global warming: Arctic’s ‘Last Ice Area’ shows signs of melting much earlier than anticipated; Check details here

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LIA is a key area that scientists were banking upon to support ice-dependent species when the nearby ice was melting away. (Image: Felix Linhardt/Kiel University) Climate change: The ‘Last Ice Area’, located in the Arctic’s Ice north of Greenland, has started melting earlier than what the scientists had expected, as the scientific community had deemed … Read more

Climate change: Energy imbalance on Earth doubled since 2005, causing the planet to heat up

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The changes in the climate are causing several issues all over the world Climate change: In what can be called a worrying disclosure, a study by scientists as US’ National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has revealed that between 2005 and 2019, the energy imbalance on Earth doubled. … Read more

Climate Change: Antarctica’s Pine Island glacier inching towards sea collapse at fast rate

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Moon further said that successive studies have confirmed that evolution of the Antarctica continent is critically dependent on Greenhouse gas emissions responsible for warming of the planet. (Representative image) Amidst rising global warming levels, climate scientists are losing their sleep over a critical Antarctica glacier that is moving towards the sea at a faster pace … Read more