First ever heatwave recorded in Antarctica
Sydney: Even the world’s coldest continent is not immune to rising global temperatures, with scientists recording the first-ever heatwave event in Antarctica over the 2019-20 summer period. Between January 23 and 26, the station recorded minimum temperatures above zero degrees Celsius Researchers from the Australian Antarctic Program revealed More...
New mass bleaching event at Great Barrier Reef
Canberra: A new mass bleaching event has occurred at Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, the third since 2016, officials said on Thursday. Corals have a unique symbiotic relationship with microscopic algae called More...
Greenland, Antarctica ice loss accelerating
London: Earth’s great ice sheets, Greenland and Antarctica, were now losing mass six times faster than they were in the 1990s due to warming conditions, the media reported on Thursday citing scientists as More...
Fresh snowfall in Shimla, Manali brings temp considerably down
Shimla: After a long break, popular tourist resorts Shimla, Manali and Dalhousie got fresh snow on Saturday, while the lower hills across Himachal Pradesh experienced rains, pushing down the mercury by several notches. While More...
Wind, rain damage standing crops in Punjab, Haryana
Chandigarh: High-velocity winds and rain damaged standing crops in parts of Punjab and Haryana in the past 24 hours, officials said here on Friday. He demanded a compensation of Rs 50,000 per acre to the affected More...
25 percent climate change messages on Twitter written by bots
New York: A lot of messages denying the effects of global warming might actually have been written by bots as new research from Brown University in the US found that about 25 per cent of the tweets about climate More...
3,000 tonnes of gold reserves found in UP’s Sonbhadra
Sonbhadra (UP): An estimated 3,000 tonnes of gold reserves have been found in Uttar Pradesh’s Sonbhadra district, the Department of Geology and Mining confirmed on Friday. The GSI is conducting an aerial survey More...
Delhi Metro gets NGT nod for bridge on Yamuna for Phase 4
New Delhi: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has granted permission to Delhi Metro to construct a bridge over the Yamuna flood plains under the Phase-IV of the project. The NGT said the construction should not cause More...
Shimla, Manali, Dalhousie witness more snowfall
Shimla: Manali, Shimla and Dalhousie in Himachal Pradesh on Wednesday witnessed more snowfall, making the tourist towns more picturesque, but traffic was hampered in many parts of the state as a thick blanket of More...
Kashmir continues in grip of cold wave, more snow to follow
Srinagar: Temperatures have seen a major drop as Kashmir continues to be in the grip of severe cold wave. On Sunday night temperature in Srinagar was -0.6 degree Celsius and it was -10.2 degree Celsius in Pahalgam More...