Topic: Global warming

In Asia, including India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and even Australia, El Niño conditions are typically associated with weaker monsoons, and sometimes even droughts.

The findings were reported by the Copernicus Climate Change Service and the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO).

While seabirds like Puffins and Arctic Terns, suffer due to warmer seas, other birds like the Little Egret benefit from the milder winters and have grown in numbers across the UK.

The UNEP report recommends that countries focus on minimising the overshoot so that temperatures peak quickly and then eventually decline soon.

The number of marine heatwave days globally has more than tripled since the early 1990s, putting pressure on marine ecosystems and communities that depend on them.

In Phoenix, Arizona, researchers found that winds were carrying the wasted heat from AI data centres nearly 500m around the facilities.

A 45°C day in Phoenix, US, — functionally the hottest major city in the developed world — and a 45°C day in Banda, Uttar Pradesh, are arithmetically identical. But they are not the same event.

The Telangana facility ranks fourth on UCLA’s top 25 list of global emitters of methane in the waste sector. The Maharashtra site stands at the 12th position.

The report by the Climate Impact Lab said that Karanpur in Rajasthan is slated to record the largest increase in mortality, with 26 deaths per 1,00,000 people.

The study by researchers at Florida State University, published in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, highlights a complex trade-off: Improving air quality reduces cloud-induced cooling, but it delivers major public health benefits.