World experiences hottest November in 134 years: NOAA

Last Updated: Wednesday, December 18, 2013, 09:31

The month of November was the hottest experienced on Earth since record-keeping began in 1880, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Tuesday.

Lowest temperature on Earth recorded in Antarctica

Last Updated: Tuesday, December 10, 2013, 10:10

A record minus 136 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 93 degrees Celsius) temperature was measured in Antarctica in August 2010.

Bed bugs can survive freezing temperatures

Last Updated: Monday, December 9, 2013, 15:05

A new research has found that bed bugs may be less susceptible to freezing temperatures than previously reported.

Temperature limit too high to avoid climate change: Study

Last Updated: Wednesday, December 4, 2013, 11:14

An internationally agreed target to limit rises in global average temperatures to within 2 degrees Celsius is around double the threshold that would avoid catastrophic climate change.

Gulmarg coldest place in J&K with minus 4.2 deg C

Last Updated: Saturday, November 2, 2013, 12:43

Gulmarg was the coldest place in Jammu and Kashmir with the mercury plummeting below the freezing point to settle at a low of minus 4.2 degrees Celsius.

Geoengineering may drastically reduce `normal` rain and snow

Last Updated: Friday, November 1, 2013, 13:40

A new study has showed that a significant build-up in greenhouse gases in atmosphere can change worldwide precipitation patterns, a widely discussed technological approach to reduce future global warming may also interfere with rainfall and snowfall.

`Oceans absorbing excess heat from global warming`

Last Updated: Friday, November 1, 2013, 13:32

A new study has lent weight to the idea that the oceans are taking up some of the excess heat.

New smart window blocks heat, generates power

Last Updated: Monday, October 28, 2013, 21:52

Scientists have developed a smart window that can let in light, block heat and generate power.

Current temperature rise in Arctic highest since past 120,000 years

Last Updated: Friday, October 25, 2013, 14:08

Experts at the University of Colorado Boulder have found that the standard summer temperatures in the Eastern Canadian Arctic have risen drastically in the last 100 years as compared to any century in the last 44,000 years and perhaps as long ago as 120,000 years.

New tool detects `email personality` based on emotional temperature

Last Updated: Friday, October 18, 2013, 14:25

A new tool has been reportedly developed that can detect one`s `email personality` based on the eight basic human emotions.

Nearby star system Fomalhaut discovered to be one of widest triple stars

Last Updated: Friday, October 4, 2013, 14:35

The nearby star system Fomalhaut has been discovered to be not just a double star, as astronomers had earlier thought, but one of the widest triple stars known.

Greenland Sea warming faster than world`s oceans

Last Updated: Thursday, September 26, 2013, 14:50

Researchers have said that recent warming of the Greenland Sea Deep Water is about ten times higher than warming rates estimated for the global ocean.