Environment
Trapped sediment cuts water storage capacity of la...
January 10, 2023
Even as the world fights a scarcity of water as well as hydropower, a new report by the United Nations warns that on both the counts, large dams around the world face a serious threat due to rising sedimentation. The report says that trapped sediment has robbed roughly 50,000 lar...
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Daydreams & nightmares after 50 years of frui...
January 9, 2023
Exactly four decades ago, in 1982, the then President of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak designated a desert city, Sharm El Sheikh, as The City of Peace in 1982. That was 10 years after the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was agreed upon by the world leaders...
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Delhi’s Nest Man Rakesh Khatri grooms eco-wa...
January 2, 2023
Holding a bag full of bird food, 60-year-old Rakesh Khatri, a photographer living in East Delhi’s Mayur Vihar, starts his day by feeding birds and keeping water for them in his neighbourhood. By the time this morning ritual is over, a group of about 10 persons, belonging to dif...
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350.org appeals for ambitious agreement on climate...
December 27, 2022
The new year will see Germany pass on the mantle of G7 grouping of developed economies to Japan. With the world’s leading industrialised nations also responsible for an overwhelming share of the global carbon emissions, both historically and current, at least on per capita basi...
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Heat pumps can reduce biogas carbon footprint by 3...
December 22, 2022
An alternative source of heat could significantly reduce the carbon footprint of a process which turns food waste into power, new research suggests. According to a press statement, a team of scientists at University of Glasgow has demonstrated that using air-source heat pumps to ...
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‘Landmark’ deal to save biodiversity reached a...
December 19, 2022
In a rare development, a global gathering on protecting biodiversity has concluded on time and with an ambitious agreement in place. After over two weeks of heated discussions and debates, representatives of about 190 countries from around the world agreed on a historic package ...
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Human activity devastating marine species, says IU...
December 9, 2022
A startling report presented by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), at the ongoing COP15 Montreal Biodiversity Conference, says that the existence of an increasingly large number of marine species is threatened by human activity. The latest update to the IU...
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India’s Purnima Devi Barman among UNEP Champions...
November 23, 2022
The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has named its 2022 Champions of the Earth, with five persons, including a conservationist, an enterprise, an economist, a women’s rights activist, and a wildlife biologist for their transformative action to prevent, halt and reverse ecosystem...
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COP27 agreement on Loss & Damage Fund key for...
November 20, 2022
At the end, it seemed like an encore. COP27, the climate change summit at Sharm El Sheikh, the Egyptian Red Sea resort town, was supposed to end on November 18. However, right from the opening plenary, the meeting was wracked by a deep divide between the rich and the poor countri...
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Global network of universities formed at COP27 to ...
November 19, 2022
Former Minister of Environment of India, Prakash Javadekar and Erik Solheim former Minister of Environment of Norway, have jointly launched a global network of Universities for Carbon Neutrality that will sensitise the students and faculty to climate change and carbon emissions o...
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