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Scientists say Donald Trump job cuts threaten climate research, public safety

About 700 NOAA employees have been dismissed from its 12,000-strong workforce, though the agency has yet to confirm the final count.

The Trump administration appears to be following Project 2025, a conservative policy blueprint that calls NOAA one of the

Published on Mar 10, 2025 07:18 AM IST

AFP |

Vigyan Yuva awardee Roxy Mathew Koll: Mapping climate change

Author of IPCC reports studies the mechanisms involved in causing climate change, particularly marine heatwaves, and what these could mean for the future

Roxy Mathew Koll, winner of this year’s Vigyan Yuva Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar award for Earth Scientist

Updated on Aug 24, 2024 04:20 PM IST

ByKabir Firaque

Forest cover replaced by plantation crops may have contributed to Wayanad tragedy

In an interview with HT in 2021, Western Ghats expert and ecologist Madhav Gadgil flagged “extremely destructive activities” in the name of so-called development

Roughly half of Kerala is hilly and mountainous, making it prone to landslides. (PTI)

Published on Jul 30, 2024 12:46 PM IST

ByJayashree Nandi

Cause and Effect | 2023 was a year of records, it also broke all records

The effects of rising temperatures were felt across the globe, as hot weather baked much of Asia, Europe and the United States

TOPSHOT - Traffic warden Rai Rogers mans his street corner during an 8-hour shift under the hot sun in Las Vegas, Nevada on July 12, 2023, where temperatures reached 106 degrees amid an ongoing heatwave. More than 50 million Americans are set to bake under dangerously high temperatures this week, from California to Texas to Florida, as a heat wave builds across the southern United States. (Photo by Frederic J. BROWN / AFP)(AFP)

Published on Jan 13, 2024 09:13 AM IST

British climate activist arrested after her group attacks HSBC, Barclays banks

Activists from the Extinction Rebellion group smashed the window frontage of HSBC and Barclays in Canary Wharf last month and have targeted Lloyd's of London as part of what the activists cast as a "Money Rebellion". Activist Gail Bradbrook was arrested from her home on Tuesday.

File Photo: Co-founder of the Extinction Rebellion group, Gail Bradbrook, poses as she and others block the road during an Extinction Rebellion demonstration at Bank, in the city of London, Britain on October 14, 2019. (Henry Nicholls / REUTERS)

Published on May 11, 2021 03:38 PM IST

Reuters |

Climate scientists turn Mount Everest into a lab

For two months, 34 scientists (along with sherpas and aides) turned the top of the world into a scientific laboratory.

The Himalayas are commonly called the ‘Third Pole’ — the first and second being the North and South ones — because of the scale of the ice there.(Pixabay)

Updated on Nov 24, 2020 07:41 PM IST

ByBloomberg | Posted by Jahnavi Gupta

Scientists say 2020 may smash heat record

Climate scientists warned 2020 could be the world’s hottest year on record, with September temperatures eclipsing previous highs and Arctic ice retreating from the seas it usually covers.

Global year-to-date temperatures show little deviation from 2016, the warmest calendar year recorded so far. (Representational Image)(Pixabay)

Updated on Oct 07, 2020 03:07 PM IST

ByBloomberg | Posted by Jahnavi Gupta

Greta Thunberg demands ‘crisis’ response to climate change

In an interview with Reuters television, the 17-year-old said governments would only be able to mount a meaningful response once they accepted they needed to transform the whole economic system.

The letter called for climate policies to be designed to protect workers and the most vulnerable and reduce economic, racial and gender inequalities, as well as moves to “safeguard and protect” democracy.(AP)

Published on Jul 16, 2020 06:34 PM IST

London | ByReuters| Posted by Susmita Pakrasi

COP25: Deliver on commitments

Despite warnings, developed nations are not doing their bit

Developed countries have also not delivered on their pre-2020 commitments, the most important among them being mobilising $100 billion per year by 2020 to support developing nations in mitigating and adapting to impacts(Pratham Gokhale/HT Photo)

Updated on Dec 10, 2019 06:33 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByHT Correspondent

Over 11,000 scientists around the world declare climate emergency

More than 11,000 experts from around the world are calling for a critical addition to the main strategy of dumping fossil fuels for renewable energy: there needs to be far fewer humans on the planet.

More than 11,000 experts from around the world are calling for a critical addition to the main strategy of dumping fossil fuels for renewable energy: there needs to be far fewer humans on the planet.(Arvind Yadav/HT PHOTO)

Updated on Nov 06, 2019 07:25 AM IST

Bloomberg | ByEric Roston

Meet the CO2-praising physicist behind the latest Trump climate push

Scientists see his proposal as part of a disturbing trend in which the Trump administration elevates ideological opponents of established scientific views.

William Happer is a National Security Council technology adviser spearheading an initiative to create a presidential committee on climate.(Gage Skidmore)

Updated on Feb 23, 2019 08:00 AM IST

ByJennifer A. Dlouhy and Ari Natter, Bloomberg

UN report on climate change sets off alarm bells

Investing in climate change makes ecological and economic sense. Keeping emissions down will boost economic growth and save the expenditure on its catastrophic fallouts

All countries must make rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes across sectors to keep the increase to within 1.5°C over pre-industrial levels to stop the devastating consequences of climate change, said the UN report in its most dire risk assessment ever(AP)

Updated on Oct 08, 2018 08:19 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByHT Correspondent

We need to mainstream the climate conversation

Instead of thinking only about vehicular emission, green cars, and carbon footprint, there needs to be a conversation happening around better and equitable management of water and waste and building resilience of our cities and villages

One of the fundamental components of building this much-needed resilience is to mainstream the climate conversation, which unfortunately still remains an elite topic in India (though poorer sections will be hit much harder).(REUTERS)

Updated on Sep 26, 2018 01:09 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByHT Correspondent

States need to roll out proper climate adaptation techniques

To understand the calamity that India faces, this report must read with the latest World Bank study — “South Asia’s Hotspots: The Impact of Temperature and Precipitation Changes on Living Standards — on how changing monsoon patterns and rising temperatures could cost India 2.8% of the gross domestic product.

The India Meteorological Department has said that the rainfall in June, the first month of the monsoon, was below the mark, with the country recording a deficit of about 5% as of June 30. The shortfall, the IMD said, may get worse(PTI)

Published on Jul 04, 2018 12:22 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByHT Correspondent

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