Tag: climate change

India could be hit by terrible heat wave similar to 2015: Climate change report

India could be hit by a severe heat wave similar to the one in 2015 which killed nearly 2,500 people across the country, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned on Monday.

October 8, 2018

Paradigm shift needed to avert global climate chaos, warns UN

Earth's surface has warmed one degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) -- enough to lift oceans and unleash a crescendo of deadly storms, floods and droughts.

October 8, 2018

Experts recommend panel for farmers’ income

The summit on “Well-being of the next generation of farmers” was attended by over 200 delegates, including four ex-Chief Secretaries, five Vice Chancellors, members of civil society and counsellors of IMIs.

October 6, 2018

PM Modi receives ‘Champions of the Earth’ award, hailed for global vision

Guterres hailed PM Modi's vision stating that the Indian prime minister recognises that climate change poses a direct existential threat to the world.

October 3, 2018

Climate risks threaten 800m South Asians

The impact of climate change is on the rise and no part of the world is immune. South Asia, home to one of the world’s poorest and hungriest populations, emerges as especially vulnerable. A new study by the World Bank projects a steep decline in living standards in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka because …

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September 24, 2018

Restore environmental clearances to mining lease holders: HP Industries Min

Industries, Labour and Employment Minister Bikram Singh sought Centre’s intervention on the problems of mining lease holders in Sirmour district of the state. Singh met the Union Environment and Forest Minister and Climate Change Dr Harsh Vardhan in New Delhi on Wednesday and apprised him that the mining lease holders have been issued notices by …

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September 13, 2018

Climate-change fizzle

The Bangkok meeting on climate change has floundered on the rock of discord over the formulations and funding, adopted at the Paris conference of December 2015. The international meeting, which concluded in the Thai capital on Sunday, has fallen short of its aim ~ to complete preparations towards an agreement this December for implementing the …

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September 11, 2018

Kerala floods | Climate change challenge must dictate policy on aid

We are now passing through times of climate change when the number of disasters is likely to increase and intensity of disasters is also likely to increase. This is true of most countries.

September 4, 2018

Potentially dire consequences

Rising CO2 levels in the atmosphere would depress nutrients in food crops.

August 29, 2018

‘Climate change can trigger more devastating floods in India’

The appeal will help the charity target some of the southern Indian state's poorest and most vulnerable villages.

August 24, 2018

Red alert in Kerala

Nature’s fury has taken a heavy toll in Kerala with more than 40 deaths and rendering thousands of people homeless. The Union government has come to the State’s aid with an immediate relief of Rs 100 crore. Climate change may be one of the causes for the unprecedented rains causing the worst floods in the …

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August 15, 2018

Alarmist barometer

A direly alarmist signal has been emitted to the world at large and the risk of the Earth ~ to which the world belongs ~ slipping into what they call the “hothouse state” is dangerously real. The report of scientists of the Stockholm Resilience Center, the University of Copenhagen, the Australian National University, and the …

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August 11, 2018

Climate change impacts may be bigger than projected

While earlier projections of the pace and impact of climate change were also considered to be worrying, many senior scientists are now warning that climate change may in fact turn out to be faster and its impacts bigger than the commonly accepted projections made earlier. At present the average global temperature is around 1-degree C …

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August 10, 2018

Don’t make Shimla another Cape Town: Sunita Narain

Asserting that it was unfair to compare ‘Queen of hills’ to Cape Town owing to recent water crisis, noted environmentalist Sunita Narain on Wednesday urged the government and people to not to let Shimla become another Cape Town. Narain who is also the Director General of Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), however, expressed satisfaction …

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August 2, 2018

800 million South Asians at risk

The impact of climate change is on the rise and no part of the world is immune. South Asia, home to some of the world’s poorest and hungriest peoples, emerges as especially vulnerable. A new study by the World Bank projects a steep decline in living standards in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka because …

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July 15, 2018

Himachal to access vulnerability of villages towards climate change

Himachal Pradesh government will soon study the vulnerability of all villages of the state towards climate change after which adaptation projects would be carried out. Informing about the development during a workshop in Dharamshala, Special Secretary cum Director, Environment Science and Technology department D C Rana said while the area under Yamuna river basin has …

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July 2, 2018

Rescue the peak

Over three decades ago the noted British climber, Chris Bonnington, had lamented the waning of some of the challenge of climbing Mount Everest ~ identifying a route, opening it etc. “Now you can sniff your way up there, just follow the garbage trail.” Some alarm bills did ring, but not loud enough to avert that …

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June 25, 2018