Oceans Commission proposes eight ways to reverse degradation of high seas

Report calls for urgent global action to save oceans from pollution and acidification

Accelerated ice melts in Greenland triggers alarm

The phenomenon is likely to increase estimates of global sea level rise

El Nino: Will 2014 be a drought year for India?

Ozone holes

Cloud view clears up

Origin of aerosols dictates cloud shape

Climate change unveils new methane source: Groundwater springs of Norway

Emissions to further increase if warming continues, finds study

Melting season in Arctic longer by about five days: NASA report

An ice-free Arctic Ocean during the summer might be reached this century, say experts

How humans invite storm

Tornado and storm frequencies linked to human activities

Scientists warn against deep sea mining

Call for sustainable management of oceans

The Arctic carbon sink

Snow covered plants in the tundra start absorbing carbon dioxide in early spring itself

Seychelles gets ambitious with its waste

Government unveils master sanitation plan to protect environment

Defiant Japan to hold annual whale hunt

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

Planet melting

If global warming continues, polar ice caps will melt, wiping nations off our planet

Catching the infant terrible

Polar potential

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Lessons from cyclone Michaung: Take better care of natural resources in coastal states

Natural disasters are becoming more common as the average temperature of the land and sea rises

After hottest May, Earth records hottest June of 21st century

Rise in temperature primarily because of warm ocean waters

El Nino may remain till April 2024, may push temperatures even higher: WMO

May cause further rise in global average temperatures, more extreme weather events

Tropical Storm Hilary pounds Southern California with heavy rain, flash flooding

California had only one confirmed tropical storm landfall in the past in September 1939

Odisha: ravaged by drought till September; cyclone, floods in October

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