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.

The human impact of climate change

RICHA SHARMA

Madhur Tankha

NEW DELHI: To commemorate World Environment Day, the British Council in association with Discovery Channel is hosting a special preview of four films on climate change at its Kasturba Gandhi Marg premises here this Friday.

Billions of people are already affected or are at extreme risk now, due to the effects of global warming such as floods

The Guardian

Unless the impact of agriculture is taken into account, the plans to cut global warming will come a cropper

Surinder Sud / New Delhi June 2, 2009, 0:54 IST

The effects of climate change on health are likely to be significant. Managing the challenge will greatly depend on an effective adaptation mechanism being drawn up at the United Nations climate change conference to be held in Copenhagen later this year. Higher global temperatures are expected to have both direct and indirect effects on health.