The impact of climate change is worldwide. For Bangladesh they are most critical as large part of the population is chronically exposed and vulnerable to a range of natural hazards. Now, the human suffering and cost to development is massive to the country and its population who are victims of human induced Global warming.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan said on Friday that climate change and resultant sea-level rise might pose problems for Kerala, especially in low-lying areas such as Kuttanad. The Chief Minister was inaugurating the World Environment Day celebrations here organised by the Kerala State Council for Science Technology and Environment.

Patiala

Felicity Carus

When Fritz Muller and Erwin Schneider battled ice storms, altitude sickness and snow blindness in the 1950s to map, measure and photograph the Imja glacier in the Himalayas, they could never have foreseen that the gigantic tongue of millennia-old glacial ice would be reduced to a lake within 50 years.

K.S. Sudhi

KOCHI: Indian scientists are all set to delve deep into the mysteries of climate change in a region where its impacts are visible most

Hyderabad, June 5: Climate change will seriously hit the agriculture sector in Andhra Pradesh, affecting the incomes of farmers by as much as 20 per cent.

According to the latest World Bank report on the impact of climate change on India, dryland farmers in AP may see their incomes plunge by 20 per cent. The WB report is one of the first of its kind in South Asia.

Sulagna Sengupta
KOLKATA, 4 JUNE: A recent study conducted by the Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute on the Ganga has revealed that due to increase in water temperature and erratic rainfall, some inland fish which breed mainly in the middle course of the Ganga are now coming to the upper course of the river for breeding.