Tag: climate change
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‘Climate change is making people sick’
From rising levels of air pollution to increased water contamination and a widening range for disease-carrying mosquitoes, climate change is making people sick, a coalition of 11 US medical groups said on Thursday. Known as the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health, the group represents more than half of US doctors, and aims to …
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March 16, 2017 -
Globalisation in the Himalayas
Globalisation is like boarding a flight. Once you board it, you cannot get off until you reach the designated destination. The only difference is that, when we board the flight, we know where we are headed. In the case of globalisation, we do not know the destination, its climate, its features, or its surroundings. This …
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February 27, 2017 -
Global warming: Skin cancer to double in the next 10 years
Blame it on climate change, cases of skin cancer and non-communicable diseases will double in the next 10 years unless initiatives are taken for address the challenges posed by global warming. This was discussed at a workshop at the Post Graduate Institute of Medical and Research (PGIMER) in which the three core frameworks of climate …
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February 24, 2017 -
Spring coming sooner to Arctic due to climate change
Nature's clock is running fast in the Arctic, thanks to climate change. Due to diminishing sea ice cover, spring is coming sooner to some plant species in the low Arctic of Greenland, while other species are delaying their emergence amid warming winters, says a study. The timing of seasonal events, such as first spring growth, …
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February 24, 2017 -
INSAT-3DR to map farm fires in Haryana, Punjab
Next generation satellite INSAT-3DR has opened new frontiers in India's weather forecasting and is set to equip the country with the ability to detect farm fires, which intensifies air pollution in the northern region seasonally, leaving Delhi gasping for breath. A team of the Satellite Meteorology Division of India Meteorological Department (IMD), housed in New …
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January 29, 2017 -
Humans wiped out megafauna
Ancient poop of some of the huge and astonishing creatures that once roamed Australia indicates the primary cause of their extinction around 45,000 years ago was likely a result of humans, not climate change, a new study has found. Led by Monash University in Australia and the University of Colorado Boulder in the US, researchers …
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January 21, 2017 -
‘2016 was hottest year ever recorded’
The world witnessed the hottest year on record in 2016, surpassing the exceptionally high temperatures of 2015, according to the UN weather agency, highlighting new records in indicators of human-caused climate change, as well as loss of Artic sea ice. The globally averaged temperature in 2016 was about 1.1 degree Celsius higher than the pre-industrial …
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January 19, 2017 -
‘2016 was hottest year ever recorded’
The world witnessed the hottest year on record in 2016, surpassing the exceptionally high temperatures of 2015, according to the UN weather agency, highlighting new records in indicators of human-caused climate change, as well as loss of Artic sea ice. The globally averaged temperature in 2016 was about 1.1 degree Celsius higher than the pre-industrial …
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January 19, 2017 -
Climate change may be lengthening bird’s wings
Climate change may cause the wing length of some birds to rapidly grow, according to scientists who warn that even small rise in temperatures may have a profound effect on various species. Researchers found that the wings of ringneck parrots – commonly called twenty-eights – has increased by four to five millimetres over the past …
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January 2, 2017 -
IMS asks Odisha govt to study impact of climate change
The Indian Meteorological Society (IMS) today suggested the Odisha government to start a study at a pilot site along the state's coast to access impact of climate change. "A pilot site along the Odisha coast may be taken up for the study of impact and assessment of climate change on various sectors such as water …
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December 22, 2016 -
Playing wait-and-see
Ignoring climate models, which predict sea levels could rise by an average of more than two metres by 2100, could prove “disastrous”, two leading US scientists have warned. Writing in the prestigious journal Science, Professor Michael Oppenheimer of Princeton University, and Professor Richard Alley of Pennsylvania State University, said building flood defences could take decades …
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December 21, 2016 -
World’s wet-dry region divide widens
While the wet regions of the earth are getting wetter, the dry regions are getting even drier thanks to the warming climate, a new study says. The regions which are relatively wet, like Northern Europe, are getting wetter and dry regions are getting drier both by about two per cent over the last 60 years, …
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December 13, 2016 -
Climate change behind deadly Tibet avalanche
Climate change may be to blame for the deadly avalanche in Tibet this year which claimed the nine lives, a new study has found. On July 17, more than 70 million tonnes of ice broke off from the Aru glacier in the mountains of western Tibet and tumbled into a valley below, taking the lives …
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December 10, 2016 -
Not easy to make films about climate change: Shyam Benegal
Climate change and environmental degradation may have emerged as the most debated issues in contemporary times but veteran film director Shyam Benegal rues that Indians are not taking these seriously because “it is not in our consciousness”. He also believes it is a difficult subject to deal with using the film medium — unless one …
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December 7, 2016 -
Antarctic hasn’t lost much sea ice in last 100 years
The area of sea ice around Antarctica has barely changed in size in the past 100 years, researchers have found. According to estimates by climate scientists at the University of Reading in London, Antarctic has lost ony 14 per cent summer sea ice since the early 1900s. It may be because Antarctic sea ice is …
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November 25, 2016 -
New Zealand backs fast-tracking of Paris climate deal
New Zealand has signalled its commitment to the Paris Agreement on climate change by joining an international programme to fast-track the accord.
November 21, 2016 -
UN calls urgency meet for combating climate change
Nearly 200 countries on Friday called for highest political commitment to combat climate change on urgent priority at a UN gathering.
November 18, 2016