Environment

UN chief Antonio Guterres has called on G20 leaders to ensure a stimulus of at least $500 billion per year towards meeting the Sustainable Development Goals.

Nearly a third of the Southeast Asian island nation's territory is only 5 metres or less above sea level, and with average annual rainfall at around 2,500 millimetres, it is already vulnerable to flooding.

The study highlights that weather-related disruptions are already impacting global ports, including a drought affecting operations in the Panama Canal, a significant waterway.

The research, published in the journal Science, is based on extensive fieldwork conducted between 2013 to 2017 at the Imja-Lhotse Shar Glacier in the Himalayas.

The world's oceans, covering over 70% of the Earth's surface, also reached record-breaking temperatures, averaging nearly 21 degrees Celsius

Tabreed, a cooling utilities company will invest up to $200 million to develop 1,25,000 refrigeration tons (RT) of cooling infrastructure for Hyderabad Pharma City and bring in potential savings of 24 million tons of CO2.

Sultan Al Jaber stressed the urgency of delivering results in a timely manner as the world experiences extreme weather events more frequently.

The shifting precipitation patterns, coupled with higher evaporation rates, have significantly contributed to the growing frequency of droughts, which in turn bear severe implications for both food security and water resources of the country.

Invasive species, often transported by human activity, are plants or animals that establish themselves in new environments, causing severe damage.

G20 countries account for 80% of world power sector emissions, with per capita CO2 from coal power at 1.6 tons last year, up from 1.5 tons in 2015.

Despite cyclones, extreme rains, landslides and extreme heat affecting India and the rest of the world in the last few months, climate ministers of the G20 nations ended their last meeting for the year in July without resolving major disagreements.

A study published Thursday in Science’s Policy Forum says scientists for the first time are able to directly quantify the impact of human-caused greenhouse gas emissions from specific sources on polar bear cub survival.

The Argentinian embassy confirmed that President Alberto Angel Fernandez will attend the highly anticipated G20 summit in Delhi.

This supermoon, while providing a stunning visual spectacle, also intensifies the gravitational pull on Earth, leading to higher tides.

The Japanese government and scientific organisations have asserted that the water is safe, having been filtered to remove most radioactive elements except for tritium, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen.

The escalating intensity and frequency of these heatwaves are driven by climate change, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

The WMO report also highlighted the occurrence of marine heatwaves in a large area northeast of Australia and south of Papua New Guinea over a period of more than six months.

They looked especially at heat stress – or the combined effects of temperature and humidity on the human body – and fire weather – which considers temperature, rainfall, humidity, and wind.