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.

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.

Temperature rises in lower hills of Himachal Pradesh

Last Updated: Saturday, July 13, 2013, 21:56

People in lower hills of Himachal reeled under sweltering heat as day temperatures rose by few notches despite monsoon remaining normal in some parts of the state.