Good news! Recovery of ozone layer achieves significant milestone

Levels of ozone-depleting substances in 2022 are back to those observed in 1980 before ozone depletion was significant

New Zealand initiates project to study climate change impacts on Antarctic sea ice

Project involves use of a vehicle that can test previously hard to measure sea ice thickness from underneath

The world was in high fever in 2020

The State of the Global Climate 2020 lists the major global warming milestones

Global meet to plan future of Antarctic marine ecosystems

Member nations of a commission that was set up 34 years ago start their first maiden meet in Australia’s Hobart

Who pays and how: the COP28 dilemma of debt and equity

COP28 will take stock of the step change in ambition needed, but the gulf in climate finance promises and realities presents an obstacle to a …

Antarctic sea ice expansion overestimated, says study

Findings say data error could have led to belief that Antarctic ice cover was increasing even as Arctic ice cover was shrinking because of global …

Month of climate contradictions: Contrasts noted worldwide in March 2023, finds Copernicus

European meteorological agency noted world’s second joint warmest March on record; Antarctic sea ice the second lowest on record

Antarctica may hold the key to regulating mining in space

If we're going to mine asteroids, then we need an international treaty to prevent it becoming a wild west. …

Antarctic ozone layer hole keeps shrinking in 2022: NASA, NOAA

Ban on chemicals adopted by Montreal Protocal attributed to gradual ozone layer recovery

Defiant Japan to hold annual whale hunt

Ignores threat from conservation activists who have vowed to disrupt the programme

Record decline in ice sheets in Antarctic and Greenland

Digital maps created with satelllite data show the combined volume of ice loss in Greenland and west Antarctic is 500 km3

Emperor penguin at risk from global warming

Study estimates penguin population in Antarctica to decline by 50 per cent

India gets remote-controlled polar vehicle

It will substantially enhance India’s capabilities to predict monsoon , says Harsh Vardhan

Tropics could lose important commercial fish by 2050

Global warming might force fish species to move to cooler waters at the poles

Australia says no to protecting Japanese whale hunters

Does not buy country’s argument that it is whaling for scientific reasons

2013 set to be one of 10 warmest years: global Met agency

Statement released at ongoing Warsaw climate talks says January to September months were warmer despite absence of El Nino or La Nina events

Extreme weather events of 2013 a result of human influences: WMO

Typhoon Haiyan, heatwave in Australia, frigid polar air in parts of Europe and the US are a few events mentioned in the World Meteorological …