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Glaciers in Switzerland lose 10% of their ice volume in two years
Swiss glaciers have lost as much ice over this two-year period as was lost over the three decades between 1960 and 1990
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Itziar Irakulis Loitxate: The climate sleuth tracking methane leaks for UN
The 27-year-old PhD student isn't a detective but she may be the closest thing the world has to climate police
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India slams nations' climate inaction; calls for focus on pre-2020 gaps
It stressed that the First Global Stocktake outcome should not exclusively focus on future mitigation while disregarding "historical responsibility and pre-2020 emissions"
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Exposure to air pollution linked to increased stroke risk within 5 days
The analysis involved a review of 110 studies that included more than 18 million cases of stroke. Researchers looked at pollutants such as nitrogen dioxide, ozone, carbon monoxide and sulfur dioxide
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IAEA conference: India spells out plans to use N-power to achieve Net Zero
Grossi posted on X, "Greetings to Mohanty on India's ambitious plans to reach 22 GW through nuclear energy for Net Zero."
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Climate change pushes Southeast Asia to finally start sharing power
The urgency for Southeast Asian nations to switch to clean energy to combat climate change is reinvigorating a 20-year-old plan for the region to share power
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Brazil's Amazon rainforest drought may affect over 500,000 people
The Amazon rainforest in Brazil is facing a severe drought that may affect around 500,000 people by the end of the year, authorities said on Tuesday
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Boost in solar energy, EV sales gives hope for climate goals: Research
For the last two years, the rate of the build up of solar energy and electric vehicle sales were in line with achieving emissions reductions targets that will help cap warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius
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Rabi season: Govt aims 60% of wheat area under climate resilient varieties
Faced with a heatwave in 2021, the government encouraged farmers in 2022 to go for heat-tolerant wheat varieties in 47 per cent of the total wheat acreage of 30 million hectares
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Researchers found the most intense heat wave ever registered- in Antarctica
Scientists found that the 39-degree temperature anomaly is the largest ever measured anywhere in the world
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Net Zero by 2050 still possible with rapid renewables expansion: IEA
The report comes amid concerns of backsliding on climate and environmental commitments in Europe after the UK deferred its own ban on combustion engine cars by five years to 2035
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Climate change: How Starbucks may be creating a new waste problem
All reusable cups have a "breakeven point"; If you drink from a ceramic mug 20 times before breaking it or sticking it in the attic, you're almost certainly better off using 20 paper cups instead
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Flooding in Libya shows how disasters are man-made and not Acts of God
A rapid attribution study found that climate change played a role in the events
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MDBs at the centre of any chance of meeting the climate challenge
Giving a lecture at a Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) event on 'The World is on Fire', Summers spoke about the challenges of overcoming poverty as well as climate change
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Delhi joins campaign to build climate resilience, commits to green cover
These include investments in circular economy to re-purpose and reduce waste and in decentralised renewable energy sources to enhance access to clean and sustainable energy
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India to clock GDP growth of 6.5% in FY24: NITI Aayog member Arvind Virmani
The economy will grow notwithstanding high crude oil prices and increased uncertainty due climate changes, he said
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Biden using executive power to create New Deal-style American Climate Corps
The climate corps had been proposed in early versions of the sweeping climate law approved last year but was jettisoned amid strong opposition from Republicans and concerns about cost
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UK leader Rishi Sunak signals plan to backtrack on some climate goals
He said he would keep a promise to reduce the UK's emissions of climate-warming greenhouse gases to net zero by 2050, but in a better, more proportionate way
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India's renewable energy boom not fast enough for 1.5-degree C goal: Report
"The future of fossil fuels in a 1.5-degree Celsius compatible power sector transition, whether abated or unabated, is the same one of swift decline," the Climate Action Tracker report says
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Climate change made Libya's flooding even more devastating: Scientists
Before crossing the Mediterranean, the storm raged for four days and caused extensive damage in central Greece and parts of Bulgaria and Turkey
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