Tag: Climate change

India was a tree planting laboratory for 200 years – here are the results

September 5, 2023 admin

Allowing forests to regenerate on their own has been championed as a strategy for reducing planet-heating carbon in the atmosphere while also boosting biodiversity, the benefits ecosystems offer and even the fruitfulness of livelihoods. | Photo Credit: Velankanni Raj B/The Hindu Allowing forests to regenerate on their own has been championed as a strategy for…

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Hong Kong Logs Hottest Summer On Record In 2023

September 4, 2023 admin

The top three warmest years in Hong Kong’s history were all recorded after 2018. (File) Hong Kong: Hong Kong experienced its hottest summer on record this year, with the city seeing “record-breaking” temperatures, the government said Monday, the latest region to experience the impact of a warming planet. Climate change has fuelled searing temperatures across…

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Explained | The global push to make ecocide a crime

September 4, 2023 admin

The story so far: Mexico’s Maya train project has earned a contradictory reputation. Some describe it as a “Pharaonic project”, the train route covers 1,525 km (about the distance from Florida to New York City), connects tourists in the Caribbean with historic Maya sites and costs $20 billion (almost four times India’s Great Nicobar Project)….

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S Jaishankar Was Asked About India Taking Lead On Solar Power. He Said…

August 30, 2023 admin

Mr Jaishankar said no other G20 chair went through the exercise of talking to 125 countries. New Delhi: India has nothing against talking, but it should, and has, led by example in its efforts to combat climate change, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said. In an exclusive interview with NDTV’s Editor-in-Chief Sanjay Pugalia, the…

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Tropical forests may be getting too hot for photosynthesis

August 26, 2023 admin

A small percentage of leaves on trees in tropical forests may be approaching the maximum temperature threshold for photosynthesis to work, suggests a study published in Nature. An estimated 0.01% of all leaves currently surpass this critical temperature but there are uncertainties in the range of potentially critical temperatures in tropical trees. Modelling suggests that…

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Rising temperatures are leading to torrential rains in the Himalayas

August 26, 2023 admin

Rescuers remove mud and debris as they search for people feared trapped after a landslide near a temple on the outskirts of Shimla, Himachal Pradesh state, Monday, August 14, 2023. Heavy monsoon rains triggered floods and landslides in India’s Himalayan region, leaving more than a dozen people dead and many others trapped, officials said Monday….

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Warming-induced glacier retreat could create novel ecosystems

August 19, 2023 admin

Climate change caused by human activity under a high-emissions scenario may halve the area covered by glaciers outside the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets by the end of the century, as per a study published in Nature. This will have marked ecological and societal cascading consequences, as novel ecosystems develop to fill emerging new habitats. However,…

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Explained | Drilling in the North Sea — history and environmental concerns

August 18, 2023 admin

File photo of a section of the BP Eastern Trough Area Project oil platform in the North Sea, around 100 miles east of Aberdeen, Scotland. | Photo Credit: AFP The story so far: U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak recently backed plans for new fossil fuel drilling off Britain’s coast, worrying environment experts even as the…

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