Climate Change

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Dangers Of Poor Housing In Remote, Off-Grid Communities

At first glance, remote communities in Outback Australia and villages in India don’t have much in common. Look closer, however,…

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Residual Emissions Need To Be Tackled To Meet Net-Zero Goal

Calling for strategies to tackle residual emissions, scientists said they would need to be balanced by carbon dioxide removal techniques…

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Residents Try To Save A River In Kerala

Source: PTI Eloor smells like it is dying. Once it was an island of rich farmland on the Periyar River,…

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Climate Change Can Drive Global Outbreaks In Dengue, Chikungunya: WHO

Source: IANS Climate change can lead to global outbreak of mosquito-borne diseases like dengue, zika and chikungunya, warned the World…

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In Final Speech, Ardern Reflects On Leading NZ

Source: PTI In her final speech to New Zealand's Parliament on Wednesday, Jacinda Ardern described in emotional terms how she'd…

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Is ‘Climate Anxiety’ A Clinical Diagnosis?

Last week, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, comprised of the world’s most esteemed climate experts, delivered its sixth report…

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Treated Wastewater Reuse Could Cut 1.3 Million Tonnes Of Emissions

Reusing treated wastewater in irrigation in India could have reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 1.3 million tonnes in 2021, according…

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Most Himalayan Glaciers Analysed Melting At Varying Rates: Govt

Source: PTI Majority of Himalayan glaciers analysed are melting or retreating at varying rates in different regions, the government has…

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India’s Heat Action Plans Fail To Identify, Target Vulnerable Groups: Report

Source: PTI A review of 37 heat action plans in India shows most of them do not explicitly carry out…

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‘Ganga, Brahmaputra Flows To Reduce Due To Global Warming’

Source: PTI UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that major Himalayan rivers like the Indus, the Ganges and the Brahmaputra, all…

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26% Of World Lacks Clean Drinking Water, 46% Sanitation: UN

Source: PTI A new report launched Tuesday on the eve of the first major UN conference on water in over…

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‘Severe Consequences’ Of Further Warming In Himalayas: IPCC

As the world’s top climate scientists issued a “final warning” on the climate crisis with the release of the last…

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Livable Future Possible If Drastic Action Taken This Decade: IPCC Report

Source: PTI The world is very likely to miss the most important climate target of limiting global temperature rise to…

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Nations Give Nod To Key UN Science Report On Climate Change

(Source: AP) Governments gave their blessing on Sunday to a major new UN report on climate change, after approval was…

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Oxygen Loss In Oceans Predicted To Threaten Global Marine Ecosystems

Source: PTI Using climate models, scientists have projected a substantial increase in cases of hypoxia, or low oxygen conditions on…

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COVID, Bird Flu – Why We Are Seeing So Many Viruses Emerge

From the widespread outbreak of mpox (formerly called monkeypox) in 2022, to the evolving bird flu situation, to recent cases…

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Making Sense Of Climate Refugees, Int’l Law & Environmental Disasters

Researchers have tried for decades to find a relevant legal status for people forced to flee their homes as a…

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Lousy Buildings And A Heat Pandemic Make A Lethal Combination

It is a typical summer’s afternoon in Gujarat, India. Women and children are listless as they swelter in the 34…

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Amazon Deforestation Could Impact Climate In Distant Regions

There’s a recent saying, grown popular among climate scientists: “What happens in the Arctic doesn’t stay in the Arctic.” Now,…

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Climate Change: A Himalayan Catfight Looms

A tiger sits quietly surrounded by trees, observing something in the distance. It then roars and darts toward its target:…

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High Climate Change Risk In India: Study

India is among the frontrunners in terms of exposure of its infrastructure to the vulnerabilities of climate change, according to…

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For 2nd Year In A Row, Antarctic Sea-Ice Cover Hits Record Low: Study

Source: PTI Antarctic sea ice extent has been reported to have broken its record low of last year and has…

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Divided By Borders, Lahore & Delhi Are United In Smog

The sister cities of Lahore, in Pakistan, and New Delhi, in India, share many things – food, culture, and now…

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Pinpointing Priority Areas For Conservation Of Mangroves In The Sundarbans

A new study published in Scientific Reports has mapped priority areas in the Sundarbans Biosphere Reserve (SBR) that are highly suitable for…

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Invasive ‘Alien’ Plants Found To Be Increasing In Higher Elevations

Botanist Pervaiz Dar spent a good amount of time in 2012 and 2017 squatting and walking along roadsides in Kashmir,…

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