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NASA study shows freshwater decline in India
The study, published in the journal Nature, found that Earth’s wetland areas are getting wetter and dry areas are getting drier due to a variety of factors, including human water management, climate change and natural cycles.
Climate change could raise food shortage globally: Study
Wetter conditions are expected to have the biggest impact in South and East Asia, with the most extreme projections suggesting the flow of the River Ganges could more than double at 2 degrees Celsius global warming.
India, UK launch joint research projects for clean water, energy
“Eight projects to be supported under the Water Quality Research programme relate to optical sensor platform for water quality monitoring, fate and management of emerging contaminants, rainwater harvesting and its impacts, Vembanad lake rehabilitation, remediation of ground-water arsenic in Ganga river basin among others,”
Last three years hottest on record, severe weather hits 2018: U.N.
Atlantic hurricanes and monsoon floods in India contributed to make 2017 the most costly year on record for severe weather and climate events, the U.N.’s World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) wrote in its annual report on the global climate.
India most vulnerable country to climate change: HSBC report
The bank assessed 67 developed, emerging and frontier markets on vulnerability to the physical impacts of climate change, sensitivity to extreme weather events, exposure to energy transition risks and ability to respond to climate change.
Warming climate will displace millions in coming decades: World Bank
By 2050, 86 million “climate migrants” will be displaced in Sub-Saharan Africa, 40 million in South Asia and 17 million in Latin America — 143 million in all — according to the report, which the bank said was the first to address the question of migration spurred by climate change.
Climate change heightens key risks for P&C insurance, reinsurance sectors: Moody’s
“The effects of climate change on the frequency and severity of catastrophic events are difficult to predict, and the correlation of climate-exposed risks that span P&C (re)insurers’ balance sheets increases the magnitude of potential losses arising from the physical and transition risks associated with climate change,” James Eck, a Moody’s Vice President says
Health savings to outweigh costs of limiting global warming in India, China
Depending on the strategy used to mitigate climate change, estimates suggest that thehealth savings from reduced air pollution could be between 1.4-2.5 times greater than the costs of climate change mitigation, globally.Health costs from air pollution include medical treatment, patient care, and lost productivity.
Antarctic Sea Ice Shrinks For Second-Straight Year
The report came as scientists said earlier this week that the Arctic region was seeing record high temperatures, with sea ice covering the smallest area in winter since records began more than half-a-century ago.
Global sea level surging at faster rate, study
If the oceans continue to change at this pace, sea level will rise 65cm by 2100—enough to cause significant problems for coastal cities, according to the assessment published in the journal PNAS. Rising concentrations of greenhouse gases in Earth’s atmosphere increase the temperature of air and water, which causes sea level to rise in two ways.