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  Global warming may not reduce winter deaths

  World | June 20, 2015 12:46 IST

  Washington: Contrary to popular assumptions, global warming may not lead to substantial reduction in winter deaths, a study says.Warming climate trend has led to reductions in cold-related mortality than some experts have anticipated, the results

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  Global warming could sink large parts of Kochi: Scientists

  India | May 20, 2015 7:53 IST

  Panaji: Within 100 years, rising sea levels caused by global warming could submerge large swathes of coastal land in Kochi, Kerala's second most populous city, scientists at the Goa-based National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) have

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  OMG! This house made of fly-ash-bricks and wooden doors saves whooping electricity!

  Life | April 23, 2015 17:22 IST

  Know about India's first Green Home that saves 40% electricityAmid the growing effect of air pollution, dirty yamuna and reducing forest cover, here is something to cherish on Earth Day today.  When we talk about

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  Barack Obama says climate change is harming Americans' health

  World | April 08, 2015 10:25 IST

  Washington: Global warming isn't just affecting the weather, it's harming Americans' health, President Barack Obama said on Tuesday as he announced steps government and businesses will take to better understand and deal with the problem.Obama

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  Japan tsunami spurred global warming, ozone loss

  World | March 27, 2015 14:38 IST

  Washington: Buildings destroyed by the 2011 Tohoku earthquake released thousands of tonnes of climate-warming and ozone-depleting chemicals into the atmosphere, finds a new study.The new study suggests that the thousands of buildings destroyed and damaged

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  Climate change will hit Australia harder than rest of world: Study

  World | January 29, 2015 15:40 IST

  Sydney: In their most comprehensive forecast yet, Australia's national science agency, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) and Bureau of Meteorology, have predicted temperature rises of up to 5.1c in Australia by 2090.CSIRO

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  India remained positive, proactive in Lima: Javadekar

  India | December 20, 2014 8:35 IST

  New Delhi: India was "positive" and "proactive" in its approach to climate change negotiations that were concluded in Lima last week, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said on Friday.Unveiling a publication on climate change adaptation, he

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  In overtime, UN climate talks remain deadlocked

  World | December 14, 2014 7:28 IST

  Lima: Crucial UN climate talks, already into extra time, today remained deadlocked as the developing countries rejected the compromise outline after the US and China clashed over the draft text of the envisioned global climate

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  Thousands participate in People's Climate March in Peru

  World | December 11, 2014 13:55 IST

  Lima: Thousands of activists today marched through the streets of the Peruvian capital, demanding swift action on climate change and asking policymakers to make a 100 per cent shift to renewable energy by the year

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  India very important player in climate talks: US

  World | December 11, 2014 8:15 IST

  Lima: Terming India as a "very important player" in the climate change negotiations, the US has said it is not involved in any agreement on climate with India ahead of President Obama's Republic Day visit

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  UN urges progress against global warming at climate conference

  World | December 10, 2014 14:08 IST

  Lima: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has urged countries attending a climate conference in Peru's capital Lima for a "balanced, well-structured and coherent draft text" of an agreement envisaged for 2015.Addressing the 20th Conference of

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  Global warming could undermine poverty fight: World Bank

  World | November 24, 2014 9:18 IST

  Washington: Climate change could undermine efforts to defeat extreme poverty around the globe, the World Bank has warned.In a new report on the impact of global warming, the bank said sharp temperature rises would cut

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  PM's climate change council reconstituted

  India | November 06, 2014 11:01 IST

  New Delhi: The Prime Minister's Council on Climate Change was reconstituted on Wednesday, days ahead of a crucial UN meet on global warming in Peru.While TERI chairperson R.K. Pachauri, Nitin Desai and retired diplomat Chandrasekhar

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  Pranab Mukherjee 1st Indian President to visit Santa Claus's hometown

  India | October 11, 2014 10:58 IST

  New Delhi: President Mukherjee will be on his five – day visit to Finland and Norway starting from tomorrow, thus being the first Indian President to not only cross the Arctic Circle but also visit

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  Global warming driving migration of species in India

  India | October 01, 2014 16:57 IST

  New Delhi: Rising temperatures are forcing a huge, untold number of species to move their homes northward or climb to higher altitudes, says an alarming study.Global warming and changing rainfall patterns have resulted in shifts

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  UN Chief asks world leaders to take steps to reverse global warming

  World | September 24, 2014 7:09 IST

  United Nations: Warning that the cost of climate change is ‘fast becoming unbearable', UN Chief Ban Ki-moon has asked an unprecedented gathering of world leaders to take action to reverse global warming and begin to

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  People's Climate March in New York (view pics)

  World | September 22, 2014 13:41 IST

  New Delhi: Two days ahead of the United Nations Climate Summit, where more than 120 world leaders will convene for a meeting aimed at galvanising political will for a new global climate treaty by the

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  Thousands join worldwide climate change march in New York

  World | September 22, 2014 11:24 IST

  New York: New York City was the scene of a huge and colourful demonstration against climate change with more than 300,000 people turning out as part of an international initiative to raise awareness about the

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  Don't blame us for carbon emissions: India

  India | June 17, 2014 16:22 IST

  New Delhi: Sending out a signal to the developed world on the issue of climate change, India today said developing countries like it have “a right to grow” and in the process “our net emission

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  Sea levels may rise with global warming

  World | July 16, 2013 12:46 IST

  Washington, July 16: Sea levels may rise by about 2.3 meters for each degree celsius of global warming within the next 2,000 years, an international team of researchers has said.While thermal expansion of the ocean