Global Warming

The number of days when the weather gets hot, dry and windy - ideal to spark extreme wildfires - has nearly tripled in the past 45 years across the globe, with the trend increasing even higher in the Americas, a new study shows. And more than half of that increase is caused by human-caused climate change, researchers calculated. What this means is that as the world warms, more places across the globe are prone to go up in flames at the same time because of increasingly synchronous fire weather, which is when multiple places have the right conditions to go up in smoke. Countries may not have enough resources to put out all the fires popping up and help won't be as likely to come from neighbours busy with their own flames, according to the authors of a study in Wednesday's Science Advances. In 1979 and for the next 15 years, the world averaged 22 synchronous fire weather days a year for flames that stayed within large global regions, the study found. In 2023 and 2024, it was up to mor

Global warming is increasing water demands and makes the natural supply of water less predictable

Because worldwide emissions continue to rise, the past 11 years have all been among the 11 hottest, and the hottest 25 years have all occurred since 1998

India recorded its eighth warmest year in 2025 since 1901, with extreme weather events killing 2,760 people, while the IMD forecast below-normal rains and colder days ahead in early 2026

India is the world's third-largest emitter of methane but lacks clear policy direction and mechanisms to track and mitigate the gas, which is far more potent than carbon dioxide in global warming

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Despite dramatic scenes in Belem, the summit delivered little on climate finance, fossil fuel transition or equity, leaving India and other developing nations disappointed

The UN has warned that the world has missed its target to keep global warming in line with 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels

India's average temperature rose by nearly 0.9 degrees Celsius in the last decade (2015-2024) with the number of warm days increasing across most of the country, a new study says, highlighting the urgent need for adaptation strategies. The hottest day of the year also registered a temperature rise of 1.5-2 degrees Celsius in western and northeast India since the 1950s, the study found. The research by climate scientists Chirag Dhara (Krea University, India), Aditi Deshpande (Savitribai Phule Pune University), Roxy Mathew Koll (Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology), Padmini Dalpadado (Institute of Marine Research, Norway) and Mandira Singh Shrestha (International Center for Integrated Mountain Development, Nepal), states that this warming is driving a surge in extreme weather events. The new peer-reviewed study synthesises the latest observational data and climate model projections to paint a stark picture, the researchers said. "India's average temperature has risen by nearly 0

Due to lack of willingness on part of developed nations to open their purses, ambitions have turned to phasing out fossil fuels, in order to keep global warming below 1.5°C over pre-industrial levels

With climate impacts mounting, the summit's final days must deliver a credible finance plan, realistic transition pathways and stronger action-focused alliances

Recent studies have estimated climate finance requirements of EMDEs at $1-4 trillion per year up to 2030, which is seen as daunting, leading to even less action than might have been possible

The reluctance of developed nations like the UK to foot the climate bill and the US withdrawal among key challenges to mobilise $1.3 trillion by 2035

This much was evident when it became clear that only a third of countries, ahead of the summit, submitted updates detailing how they would cut the emission of greenhouse gases

Officials from countries most vulnerable to global warming offered searing dispatches of life on the front line of a warming planet Friday, as world leaders gathered on the edge of the Amazon rainforest for the annual United Nations climate talks. Ahead of Monday's official kickoff, officials have sought to build support for initiatives to protect forests and to streamline carbon markets, which seek to reduce the emissions that drive warming. But the meetings also took time to hear impassioned testimony about the harms climate change is dealing around the world. Haitian diplomat Smith Augustin, whose country was pummelled by Hurricane Melissa, appealed to wealthier countries that produce the greatest share of the world's emissions to support Haiti in preparing for bigger storms. Developed countries pledged USD 300 billion to help poor nations cope with climate shocks at last year's summit, but the money has yet to be distributed. The hurricanes and the heavy rain devastated my ...

Global greenhouse gas emissions have increased by 34% since 1995

A study in the journal Tropical Medicine and Health projects that climate change could double South Asia's annual heat-related deaths to nearly 400,000 by 2045, with India and Pakistan most at risk

The 2025 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change reveals a 63 per cent rise in heat-related deaths since the 1990s, warning that humanity is edging towards survival limits

30 years, 30 COPs - still counting degrees. Is this where promises go to melt? This two-part series on COP30 tracks how the UN's flagship climate summit lost its direction and what's at stake

Since climate change is a global phenomenon, it is equally critical that countries work on mutually reinforcing climate-action plans beyond the individual emission-reduction targets