← 🌦️ Environment · usually met in Std 7-12
The long-term warming of the planet caused by greenhouse gases released by human activity, and the shifts in weather patterns that follow.
Carbon dioxide, methane and other gases let sunlight through and absorb some of the heat the Earth radiates back, keeping it in the system. Burning coal, oil and gas releases carbon that was locked underground for hundreds of millions of years, and concentrations in the atmosphere are now well above anything in the long ice-core record. The measured result is a rise in average global temperature, with warming faster over land and in the Arctic.
What follows is less about everywhere being pleasantly warmer and more about disruption: sea level rise from melting ice and expanding water, heavier downpours in some places and longer dry spells in others, hotter heatwaves, and shifts in where crops and species can live. For India the questions that matter most are the monsoon's reliability, heat stress in cities, Himalayan glaciers that feed the big rivers, and the coasts.
Want to see it moving? Search YouTube for “Climate change” ↗ — we send you to the search rather than to one video, because a link to one video eventually rots.
This entry was written for Star Student in our own words — it is a summary, not a source. Here is where the people who actually hold these facts keep them. Go and check.
Your own textbook ↗Balbharati publishes the textbooks free to read online. Your chapter is the thing to check first — an encyclopedia is a summary, and the syllabus is the syllabus. India Meteorological Department ↗The monsoon, rainfall and cyclone warnings, from the department that issues them. Zoological Survey of India ↗India's animal life, surveyed and catalogued since 1916.Last gone through: 1 October 2026 · How these entries are written
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