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How Droughts And Worsening Soil Health Can Increase Carbon Emissions

Researchers have identified a feedback loop between drought, soil desiccation and carbon dioxide emissions that can accelerate climate change effects.…

1 year ago
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Famed IT City Deals With Severe Water Woes

Parts of Bengaluru are facing a water shortage following inadequate rainfall last year that impacted water resources. The authorities have…

2 years ago
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Earth May Have Already Passed The Crucial 1.5°C Warming Limit

Global temperatures have already exceeded 1.5°C warming and may pass 2°C later this decade, according to a world-first study I led. The…

2 years ago
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How Droughts Can Leave People With Nowhere To Go

By 2050 around 145 million people in the Global South could be forced to relocate within their own countries due…

2 years ago
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Climate Change’s Dangerous New Fires

Heatwaves have been going through some extraordinary changes in recent history. Since midway through the 20th century, their intensity, frequency…

2 years ago
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Climate Change Is Leaving African Elephants Desperate For Water

(Source: PTI) African elephant numbers have dropped from about 26 million in the 1800s to 415,000 today. While this is…

3 years ago
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Drought Conditions Force Marathwada Farmers To Migrate For Work

It’s 8 p.m. on a rainy day in mid-October and a family of 10 from Beed has arrived in the…

3 years ago
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Blue Jeans Is Costing The Planet Dearly

Eternally current and always fashionable, blue jeans are among the most-worn articles of clothing on Earth, transcending time, trends, and…

3 years ago
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How Will We Live With Limited Freshwater?

The best of traditional and modern approaches can support each other to avoid droughts becoming disasters. Human-caused climate change seems…

3 years ago
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Land Degradation: Silence When Alarms Should Be Sounding

In 1992, three UN conventions were established to combat climate change, biodiversity loss and desertification. As their contours were being…

3 years ago
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What’s The Difference Between 1.5°C & 2°C Of Global Warming?

Over and over at the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow, world leaders have stressed the need to limit global warming…

4 years ago
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Wider Image: The Children Who Need To Take A Train To Get To Water

As their classmates set off to play after school each day, nine-year-old Sakshi Garud and her neighbor Siddharth Dhage, 10,…

6 years ago

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