Tag: climate change
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World within a world
The Sundarbans are under threat due to rising sea levels and global climate change.
October 26, 2018 -
Nobel ideas
Not even a person of average intellect ~ far removed from the rarefied world of economists ~ will find it hard to understand why the Nobel committee chose Paul Romer and William Nordhaus for the Prize in economics. No human escapes the effects of nature ravaged, as the inexorable pursuit of growth, sometimes even pleasures …
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October 22, 2018 -
India making all efforts to combat climate change, Harsh Vardhan on IPCC report
Vardhan also expressed confidence that with all the steps in place, “India would be able to combat climate change”.
October 9, 2018 -
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