Tag: Climate Change

Experts blame crass urbanization for heat wave like condition in twin cities

Bhubaneswar: With the mercury rising with an accelerating rate these days, the State has already lost 17 lives due to heat wave like condition. Scientists blame global warming for this extreme situation. To address this issue, a panel discussion was organised on ‘Global warming, its remedies and necessity of afforestation’ here by ‘Prerna’, a social […]

  • Friday, 16 July 2021
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DiCaprio's foundation donates $100 mn to fight climate change

London: Oscar-winning actor Leonardo DiCaprio’s foundation has raised over $100 million for the fight against climate change. “…I am pleased to announce $11 million in new grants across our six programme areas, bringing the total financial impact of LDF to over $100 million,” read a statement from DiCaprio on the foundation’s website, reports metro.co.uk. The […]

  • Friday, 09 July 2021
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World Bank praises India's renewable energy success

Katowice (Poland): The World Bank on Monday praised India’s success in renewable energy auctions that delivered record-setting low prices for solar power and said that the number of countries with strong policy frameworks for sustainable energy more than tripled — from 17 to 59 — in the eight years till 2017. Many of the world’s […]

  • Friday, 09 July 2021
Wintertime ice growth in Arctic sea slows long-term decline: NASA

New York: While sea ice in the Arctic continues to be on the decline, a new research from the US Space agency suggests that it is regrowing at faster rates during the winter than it was a few decades ago. The findings showed that since 1958, the Arctic sea ice cover has lost on average […]

  • Friday, 09 July 2021
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Global climate summit opens, aims to finalise Paris pact implementation

Katowice (Poland): Following a year of devastating climate disasters around the globe, from California to Kerala, and Tonga to Japan, the annual UN Climate Change Conference (COP24) opened in this Polish city with the goal of finalising the implementation guidelines for the Paris Climate Change Agreement. The guidelines will provide clarity on how to implement […]

  • Friday, 09 July 2021
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Climate change will widen inequality gap in India: Report

New Delhi: Climate change will widen the inequality gap in India. People exposed to natural hazards in low income regions are seven times more likely to die, and six times more likely to be injured or displaced, compared to equivalent populations in high income regions, a report said on Friday. This analysis by New Delhi-based […]

  • Friday, 09 July 2021
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Eat less meat to meet climate targets: Study

New Delhi: The livestock sector could use almost half of the 1.5 degrees Celsius greenhouse gas emission budget allowed by 2030, so addressing this should be a key part of the strategy to hit climate targets, a new study said on Tuesday. Farmed animal law and policy fellow Helen Harwatt at Harvard Law School advises […]

  • Friday, 09 July 2021
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Climate change could cost US hundreds of billions of dollars annually

Washington: A new US government report has delivered a dire warning about climate change and its devastating impact, saying that the economy could lose hundreds of billions of dollars by the end of the century. The federally mandated study “Fourth National Climate Assessment”, was supposed to come out in December but was released by President […]

  • Friday, 09 July 2021
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India's solar alliance gets major push with EIB funds

United Nations: India has declared that as a firm believer in multi-lateralism, it was ready to take the lead on climate action. “The world needs a roadmap for finance and technology to achieve the goals set out in the Convention and its Paris Agreement in everyone’s collective interest,” External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said at […]

  • Thursday, 08 July 2021
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Climate change can change the taste of wine!

New York: Although winegrowers seem reluctant to try new grape varieties apparently to protect the taste of the wines, new research suggests that they will ultimately have to give up on their old habit as planting lesser-known grape varieties might help vineyards to counteract some of the effects of climate change. “It’s going to be […]

  • Tuesday, 06 July 2021
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'Kadvi Hawa' director hopes word of mouth drives film

Mumbai: Director Nila Madhab Panda hopes a positive word of mouth brings in more footfalls in theatres to watch his movie “Kadvi Hawa”, which makes a point about climate change. “The early reviews have been really positive and encouraging. I am hoping that the positive word of mouth will motivate audiences to watch and appreciate […]

  • Tuesday, 06 July 2021
Climate change may spur diseases like zika, malaria, dengue

New Delhi: Aside from inflicting devastating natural disasters, climate change can also spur outbreaks of infectious diseases like zika, malaria and dengue fever, says a new study. “Climate change presents complex and wide-reaching threats to human health,” said lead author of the study Cecilia Sorensen from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in the […]

  • Tuesday, 06 July 2021
South Africa to introduce climate change legislation

Cape Town: South Africa will introduce a climate change legislation by 2018, as part of its commitments to the Paris Agreement, the Parliament has said. The Parliament has been informed of this development by the Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA), Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Environmental Affairs (PCEA) said on Tuesday, Xinhua news agency reported. “The […]

  • Tuesday, 06 July 2021
Agricultural insurance can have unwanted side-effects

London: While agricultural insurance intends to protect farmers in developing countries from the effects of climate change, it can also have undesirable ecological and social side-effects, say researchers. Agricultural insurance can change a farmer’s land use strategies which can lead to unintended ecological consequences, according to the study published in the journal Global Environmental Change. The […]

  • Tuesday, 06 July 2021
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Climate change to hit coffee lovers hard

New York: Thanks to global warming, your morning cup of coffee could be a lot more pricey in the years to come. Researchers have estimated that climate change could reduce coffee growing areas in Latin America — the world’s largest coffee-producing region — by as much as 88 per cent by 2050. The study published in […]

  • Tuesday, 06 July 2021
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