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Ethanol-blended fuel has no impact on vehicles: Minister Puri reassures
Hardeep Singh Puri,Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas...
Entire Himalayan range facing ecological crisis: SC
A report filed by Himachal Pradesh said the recent devastations in...
Issuance of cat bonds set to hit a record this year
Catastrophe bonds are generally issued by insurers looking to pass a chunk of their risk over to capital markets. Issuance has picked up lately, with factors including climate change, population density and inflation adding to the potential losses that insurers face....
Climate Change: The Era of Super-Wild Weather Is Already Here
Erich Fischer, a climate scientist at ETH Zurich, has been trying to do for heat something similar to what US researchers want to do for precipitation. His work in recent years has helped demonstrate that temperature records around the world are falling by greater and...
More than 800 coal plants worldwide could be profitably decommissioned, research group says
Around 15.5 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide are generated every year by 2,000 gigawatts of coal power. The International Energy Agency says emissions need to reach zero by 2040 if temperature rises are to remain within the threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius The...
India’s ‘heat trap’ cities make summers worse, says government official
"The emission of greenhouse gases has gone up. The permeable spaces have gone down considerably. The cities actually have become heat traps.As a result, nights are nearly as uncomfortable as days,Krishna S. Vatsa, a member of the National Disaster Management Authority...
Extreme heat causes income loss for 50% of Delhi street vendors: Study
"Data from over 700 respondents highlight the devastating impact on their health, productivity, and livelihoods. We demand immediate government intervention, including the establishment of heat shelters in markets with essential facilities, safety kits, and...
Urbanisation’s influence on climate change increasing in recent decades, study finds
Researchers analysed land temperatures from all over the world and discovered that, although contributing only 2 percent of land warming between 1992 and 2019, urbanisation is still not the primary driver of climate change. It was discovered that India's urban areas...
Major world economies seek to halt new private sector coal financing
If approved, the draft proposal by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, would be the first move by a multilateral institution to curb financing for coal, one of the biggest causes of climate change, which produces more carbon dioxide emissions...
Climate change made deadly Brazil floods twice as likely
Factors besides climate change — such as poor flood-control infrastructure and deforestation — played a role in making the floods more destructive. But it was the interplay between climate change and El Niño, the occasional warming of the eastern equatorial Pacific,...
HC takes note of 52.3 deg C temperature in Delhi says city could become ‘barren desert’
"Judicial notice is taken of the fact that as recent as on May 30, the official temperature recorded in Delhi was 52.3 degrees Celsius. It is not far to see the day when this city may be only a barren desert, in case the present generation continues an apathetic view...
Sweltering heat directs attention at ‘disappearing’ spring in country
Such extreme heat has wide-ranging consequences on public health, electricity, water and the economy.Vimal Mishra, Vikram Sarabhai Chair Professor, Civil Engineering and Earth Sciences, IIT Gandhinagar New Delhi: Sweltering heatwave in north India that have caused...