El Nino southern oscillation

agriculture

IMD revises monsoon forecast down by 5% but let’s not say ‘drought’ yet

The Wire June 4, 2015 From behind the thick curtains of the Indian Meteorological Department’s offices, it was announced on June 2 that the monsoon forecast for 2015 was being revised from 93% to 88% of the long-period average (LPA), ringing in fears of a drought. The LPA hovers

Agulhas current

As seas exchange heat, the Indian Ocean is becoming a marine hothouse

The Wire May 21, 2015 Since about 1998, the rate at which the Earth’s surface temperature has been becoming hotter due to anthropogenic global warming has slowed. It slipped from about 0.12 kelvin per decade since the late 1800s to about 0.05 kelvin per decade. For a