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Drones clear Mount Everest’s trash-covered slopes
Climate change is only adding to the urgency to clean Everest. Snow...
NCDEX in partnership with IMD to develop country’s first weather derivatives
This Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), signed on June 26, lays the...
NGT fines Birla Carbon unit in UP Rs 12 lakh for discharging untreated water in drain
A bench of NGT Chairperson Justice Prakash Shrivastava said an inspection on January 21, 2021, revealed the discharge of ''black material'' in the drain and the company did not object to the inspection report, nor did it give any explanation to the Uttar Pradesh...
France sees collapse in births to lowest since World War Two
The most common reasons people gave for not having more children were concerns about the economic, social and climatic outlook, cited by 30% of those polled. Some 28% said raising children cost too much PARIS: France saw the lowest number of births since World War Two...
Climate change may claim 14.5 mn lives by 2050: WEF
Flooding alone is estimated to cause 8.5 million deaths by 2050, posing "the highest acute risk of climate-induced mortality", according to the study. Droughts, as the second leading cause of climate-related mortality, are forecast to claim 3.2 million lives. Heat...
More CEOs fear their companies won’t survive 10 years as AI and climate challenges grow PwC survey says
"Whether it is accelerating the rollout of generative AI or building their business to address the challenges and opportunities of the climate transition, this is a year of transformation,” Bob Moritz, global chairman of PwC, formerly known as PricewaterhouseCoopers...
Water Risk: Maha has 2nd highest number of wells in India, but just 45% of its groundwater remains
Uttar Pradesh tops the list with over 3.9 million wells of all types, but pleasantly, Sikkim and Manipur are the only states that have no wells of any kind, while Delhi, Punjab and Chandigarh have no dug-wells, though they have borewells, as per the Centre’s official...
IMD plans to use AI to better forecasts; admits predicting severe weather events challenging
Mrutyunjay Mohapatra, Director General,IMD The IMD will kick start its 150th-anniversary celebrations on Monday with the launch of ‘Panchayat Mausam Seva’ that aims to take weather forecasts to every farmer in every village and the National Framework for Climate...
2023 officially warmest year on record by a huge margin, WMO confirms
''Given that El Nino usually has the biggest impact on global temperatures after it peaks, 2024 could be even hotter,'' said Saulo, who became WMO Secretary-General on January 1, 2024 The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has officially confirmed that 2023 is...
Govt cracking down on firms making false eco-friendly claims on products
All environmental claims shall be backed by verifiable evidence, and while making disclosures in relation to environmental claims, data from research shall not be cherry picked to highlight only favourable observations while obscuring others that are unfavourable New...
‘Heavy fuel’ leaked from power station in Manipur spills into streams
The Chief Minister's Office (CMO) directed the departments concerned to take "immediate necessary action to prevent an environment calamity, making use of all available resources in terms of machinery, manpower and expertise". Imphal: Heavy fuel leaked from a power...
2023- Record heat, worsened droughts, floods and bushfires around the world
Some 77 countries experienced their highest average annual temperature in at least 45 years. Temperature records were shattered from Canada to Brazil, Spain to Thailand Professor Albert van Dijk,Fenner School of Environment & SocietyAustralian National University...