Climate Change Global Warming
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From floods to cloudbursts: North India’s wettest monsoon in a decade rings climate alarm
India | Aug 27, 2025, 11:50 PM ISTMonsoon 2025: Over the past two months, northwest India has witnessed intense rainfall primarily due to the frequent interaction of western disturbances with monsoon currents arriving from the Bay of Bengal, and at times, from the Arabian Sea.
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Most buildings designed for earlier climate – here’s what will happen as global warming escalates
Science | Jul 03, 2021, 09:53 AM ISTClimate change is indiscriminate. Rich nations have the financial clout to adapt more rapidly and mitigate the impacts, but they can’t stop them at the border.
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NGT imposes over Rs 1.17 cr penalty on 21 stone crushers in AP for causing pollution
India | May 28, 2021, 01:12 PM ISTThe National Green Tribunal has slapped over Rs 1.17 crore penalty on 21 stone crushing and quarrying units for causing pollution and damage to the environment.
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New NASA Earth System Observatory to help address, mitigate climate change
Science | May 25, 2021, 07:10 AM ISTNASA will design a new set of Earth-focused missions to provide key information to guide efforts related to climate change, disaster mitigation, fighting forest fires, and improving real-time agricultural processes, the US space agency on said Monday.
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Climate change: Why we must take this wake-up call seriously
World | Sep 25, 2019, 11:46 PM ISTEarth is in more hot water than ever before, and so are we, an expert United Nations climate panel warned in a grim new report Wednesday. Sea levels are rising at an ever-faster rate as ice and snow shrink, and oceans are getting more acidic and losing oxygen, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said in a report issued as world leaders met at the United Nations.
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Who is Greta Thunberg
Fyi | Sep 24, 2019, 03:45 PM ISTThe 16-year-old, Thunberg gave an emotional appeal in which she scolded the leaders with her repeated phrase, “How dare you.” She also said that the representatives of different countries are failing young people because of their inaction to address global heating and that "young people are starting to understand" their "betrayal."
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Rising seas threaten Egypt's fabled port city of Alexandria
World | Aug 30, 2019, 02:04 PM ISTRising sea levels threaten to inundate poorer neighborhoods and archaeological sites, prompting authorities to erect concrete barriers out at sea to break the tide. A severe storm in 2015 flooded large parts of the city, causing at least six deaths and the collapse of some two dozen homes, exposing weaknesses in the local infrastructure.
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Sydney declares climate emergency
World | Jun 25, 2019, 01:54 PM ISTThe Australian city of Sydney on Tuesday declared a climate emergency and called for a price on carbon to be reinstated, stressing that global warming poses a danger to its residents and to the whole country.
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India to act on climate change on its own volition: Prakash Javadekar
World | Sep 24, 2014, 01:27 PM ISTNew York: India will take action on climate change not ‘at somebody's dictation' but on its own volition, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar has said.“Prime Minister Narendra Modi is ‘very much interested in climate change and