Impacts Research / Extreme Weather / Slow onset disasters According to the data compiled by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), conflict, violence and disasters triggered 38 million internal displacements across 141 countries and territories in 2021, the second highest annual figure in a decade after 2020’s record-breaking year for disaster displacement.
It was a mild start to the winter season this year, with November and December not recording any significant winter rains and snow. As a result, maximum temperatures settled well above the normal average. In fact, December 2022 was declared as the warmest in the history of 122 years, with the highest mean temperature to […]
The world seems to be at an inflection point. Even as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued its latest set of warnings in its Physical Science of Climate Change, news poured in from around the world of dangerous rains, flooding, drought and wildfires. Over several years of worsening climate around the world and […]
Impacts / Slow onset disasters Amidst the treasures of Uttarakhand is its state tree flower, the Buransh, scientifically known as Rhododendron. Climate change is causing warmer and shorter winters which has ultimately led to the untimely flowering of the famous flower.
Impacts Research Witness / Slow onset disasters According to meteorologists, the anomaly in the temperatures and rainfall is the result of alterations in the weather patterns. The intensity as well as frequency of Western Disturbances have been on the lower side this winter season.
Impacts Witness / Slow onset disasters NTPC in particular has been called out for its unchecked development in vulnerable areas exacerbating the impacts of climate change, which is a force multiplier. Joshimath is a clear example of what should not be done in the Himalayas, say experts
Impacts / Slow onset disasters Amidst the treasures of Uttarakhand is its state tree flower, the Buransh, scientifically known as Rhododendron. Climate change is causing warmer and shorter winters which has ultimately led to the untimely flowering of the famous flower.
After a long run of around 10 days, tropical storm ‘Biparjoy’ finally made landfall over the Saurashtra-Kutch Coast and adjoining Pakistani coast between Mandvi, Gujarat and Karachi coast near Jakhua port on the evening of June 15. At the time of crossing the coast, Biparjoy was sustaining the strength of a very severe cyclone, with […]
Monsoon mayhem continues to wreak havoc across different parts of India. After battering Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand last week, extreme weather events have now hit South Gujarat. Weather models have failed to predict climate change led extreme rain events, leading to chaotic and sudden situations, leaving little time for preparation. Heavy to extremely heavy rains […]
In January 2003, as the flood waters of the river Thames threatened his house, climate scientist Myles Allen wrote an article to the scientific journal Nature asking a simple question: “Will it ever be possible to sue anyone for damaging the climate?”. In the article, Allen laid out the basis of what he called the […]
Europe is on track to experiencing its worst drought in 500 years, affecting cargo transport, power production, drinking water, animal products (including meat and dairy), and crops. An unusually dry winter and spring, followed by record breaking heat waves that have killed thousands of people across the continent, are to blame. Climate experts said that all heatwaves are now made more likely and […]