The state irrigation department, considering the drastic fall in groundwater levels, insisted districts like East Burdwan, Hooghly, Bankura, Jhargram, Nadia, West Midnapore to stress more on micro-irrigation and an instruction on this reached the district headquarters in the mid of January
February 8, 2023Expressing concern over the changing environment, the head of the environmental sciences department at Dr. YS Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry in Nauni said it was harmful to both people and plants since "the latter cannot acclimatise to the sudden changes and that leads to sickness."
January 4, 2023Water resources are essential for economic development. India has 4 per cent of global water resources for its use. India’s water resources are under immense pressure.
October 25, 2022In addition, the year-to-year natural variability of SST is large in northern Japan so the global warming signal was less detectable than in southern Japan.
October 11, 2022Aviation is currently one of the fastest-growing sources of the greenhouse gas emissions driving global climate change. With the expected passenger rise of 8.2 billion by 2025 and the expected industry revenues of $498 billion by 2022 there is a growing concern of increased share of air pollution resulting due to aircraft industry.
October 4, 2022The weight loss we observed in people with heart failure may lead to low blood pressure, especially when standing up, and renal failure, and is potentially life-threatening.
September 23, 2022According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), by 2019 the temperature had risen by 1.1 degrees Celsius compared to pre-industrial levels.
September 22, 2022According to the scientists of “The Antarctic Program”, “The colony of the penguins is very dirty and the harmful gasses discharged from the guano are making the temperature of Antarctica high, exposing the land in the area”.
September 6, 2022Animal and climate justice groups pointed out that almost 60 per cent of the menu at the Conference was made up of high-carbon, meat and dairy products.
September 2, 2022Perhaps inevitably, there was a backlash against Carson even before her book was published, because it had been excerpted in The New Yorker a few months earlier.
August 19, 2022Fry was the climate envoy of Tuvalu for many years and was a lead negotiator on loss and damage in the UNFCCC.
August 5, 2022Speaking at the Moravian Church, the Dalai Lama spoke about the global warming that has engulfed Europe and various other countries. He stressed the need for helping each other as a universal responsibility that is very important in the existing scenario.
July 23, 2022By 2100, historically catastrophic and extreme sea-level rises will happen every year, endangering the lives of millions of people who live near the coast.
July 21, 2022Meteorologists across Europe have warned that the longer the heat wave, the greater the repercussions in terms of forest fires and people’s health.
July 21, 2022India has lost 235 square kilometres of land to coastal erosion between 1990 and 2016, placing people's livelihoods and homes in jeopardy.
July 6, 2022Ice ~ in the form of sea ice, glaciers, ice caps and snow - helps to keep the planet cool by reflecting some of the sun's heat.
July 5, 2022By the end of the twenty first century, coastal flood damage in Europe is expected to spike least ten fold with existing adaptation and mitigation measures.
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