[ad_1] Lexica generated AI image GENEVA: World skiing‘s governing body joined forces with the UN’s weather agency on Thursday in a bid to feed its meteorological expertise into managing the “existential threat” to winter sports posed by climate change. Ski resorts around the world are increasingly being forced to confront the realities of a warming […]

[ad_1] Representative Image (Picture Credit: AP) The San Francisco Bay Area, which rarely experiences temperatures above 90 degrees, will be enduring the fall heat wave for at least a day or two before finally getting relief from the current fall heat wave.The temperature in the city soared to a high of 94 degrees on Tuesday.The […]

[ad_1] The disaster struck Himalayan nation just before Dasain, the country’s most significant festival, which starts on Thursday. The search for the missing and the recovery of the deceased continued in Nepal on Tuesday, following the devastating floods and landslides that claimed more than 200 lives over the weekend. The death toll has risen to […]

[ad_1] The death toll from rain-induced floods and landslides in Nepal had surpassed 215 on Tuesday, with 28 individuals still missing according to officials.The disaster that began on Thursday, left thousands displaced in multiple provinces with widespread destruction that continued till Sunday. Since Friday, large parts of eastern and central Nepal have been engulfed by […]

[ad_1] Typhoon Krathon heads towards Taiwan’s populated west coast, storm surge warning issued Taiwan mobilised nearly 40,000 troops on Tuesday to bolster rescue efforts as the powerful Typhoon Krathon approaching its populous southwest coast is expected to bring a storm surge and the coast guard raced to locate 19 sailors who abandoned ship, Reuters reported.Nearly […]

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: A group of 131 CEOs of the Global Alliance for climate action representing some big companies from across 27 countries, including India, had reduced 10% of aggregate absolute emissions between 2019 to 2022 while recording 18% aggregated growth in their revenues during the same period, according to a report from the World […]

[ad_1] Representative Image (Picture Credit: PTI) A landslide in a remote site of Western Sumatra province on Sumatra Island killed at least 15 people and left dozens missing, after heavy rainfall in the area.While talking to AFP, Provincial Disaster Mitigation Agency spokesperson Ilham Wahab said, “The information we can provide was that a landslide occurred […]

[ad_1] Residents wade through a street flooded in the passing of Hurricane Helene (Picture Credit: AP) Hurricane Helene has weakened to a Category 1 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 75 mph (120 kph), according to the National Hurricane Center.The storm has traveled north from Florida to Georgia and was about 100 miles (160 kilometers) […]

[ad_1] LONDON: Britain on Thursday named Rachel Kyte, a climate policy professor at Oxford University, as its new climate envoy – the latest step in the recently elected Labour government‘s efforts to bolster Britain’s role in international climate politics. Kyte’s appointment as the UK’s Special Representative for Climate comes six weeks before COP 29, the […]

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: One in every two El Nino events could be extreme by 2050 if current trends in greenhouse gas emissions continue, a new study has found. El Nino, a weather pattern known for triggering warmer extremes like heatwaves and floods, is known to raise sea surface temperatures, while its counterpart La Nina leads […]