According to new data released by US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), last month was the hottest April ever.
The information showed that April 2016 was the third month in a row to break the monthly record by the largest margin ever and the seventh month in a row to be at least 1C above the 1951-80 mean for that month, the Guardian reported.
The global temperature of land and sea was found to be 1.11C warmer in April than the average temperature for April during the period 1951-1980.
The new record broke the previous one by 0.24C, which was set in 2010, at 0.87C above the baseline average for April. That record itself broke one set three years earlier at 0.75C above the baseline average for April.
It all but assures that 2016 will be the hottest year on record and probably by the largest margin ever.
The new record broke the previous one by 0.24C, which was set in 2010, at 0.87C above the baseline average for April. That record itself broke one set three years earlier at 0.75C above the baseline average for April.
It all but assures that 2016 will be the hottest year on record and probably by the largest margin ever.
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Kathmandu : Right from when they got married in 2008, this couple, both in the Maharashtra Police, dreamt of together ascending Mt Everest, the tallest peak in the world, and even delayed becoming parents till they achieved their aim. The duo finally managed the feat on May 23.
At least 24 people were killed and over 100 others injured as cyclone Roanu battered Bangladesh’s southern coast on Sunday, leaving a trail of destruction and prompting authorities to evacuate about five lakh people.
New Delhi: A heat wave sweeping vast swathes of India will be at its severest in the next 2-3 days, the weatherman said on Wednesday, raising the alert level to the highest ‘red’ that could see temperatures rising to 47 degrees Celsius in several cities including Delhi.
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In Odisha, the cyclonic storm Roanu gained momentum on Friday, moving northeastwards at a speed of 20 km per hour and lay centred close to the Gopalpur coast, the India Metrological Department (IMD) officials said.
Mumbai: Versova Resident Volunteers (VRV), an organisation that has been running a citizen-led campaign — Clean Up Versova Rock Beach set an example on Sunday on how a lot can be achieved when like-minded people come together. Starting at 7am, around 300 of them collected a whopping 87,000 kg of garbage from Versova beach, thus ridding it of a total of 1.45 lakh kg of trash in three days.
London: Arctic may become ice-free this year or next for the first time in more than 100,000 years, a leading Cambridge scientist has claimed.
Geneva: Switzerland on Wednesday inaugurated the Gotthard Railway Tunnel, a major engineering achievement deep under snow-capped peaks carried out over 17 years at a cost of 12.2 billion Swiss francs ($12 billion).
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