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Environment

‘Dedicated my life to the cause of Amazon forests’

  Jan 24, 2021 Thiruvananthapuram: Shaji Thomas, a Keralite who landed in Brazil in 1989 on a scholarship, is now a citizen of the football crazy nation. In Brazil, he took a doctorate degree and…

Environment

Ageing dams growing threat in India, other countries: UN report

Jan 23, 2021 New Delhi:  By 2050, most people on Earth will live downstream of tens of thousands of large dams built in the 20th century, many of them including in India already operating at…

Ready for any alternative to law repeal demand, Tomar to farmers

Jan 17, 2021 New Delhi: Union Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Sunday again appealed to the farmers unions to suggest ways to resolve the deadlock over the agrarian reforms implemented by…

Environment

World’s oceans continue to warm, despite reduced carbon emissions

Jan 16, 2021 Beijing: Despite reductions in global carbon emissions due to the Covid-19 lockdown, the world’s oceans in 2020 were the warmest in recorded history, according to a new study. Published in the journal…

Environment/Weather

Kashmir reels under harshest winter in decades

Jan 15, 2021 Srinagar:  Extreme cold accompanied with chilly winds from snow clad maintains have forced people in Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh not to venture out in the morning on Friday. Locals living in…

Environment

Nations must step up climate actions or face costs: UN report

Jan 14, 2021 Nairobi: As temperatures rise and climate change impacts intensify, nations must urgently step up action to adapt to the new climate reality or face serious costs, damages and losses, a new UN…

Environment

Atmospheric CO2 to pass 50 pc threshold in 2021: UK Met Office

Jan 10, 2021 London: Carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere this year will reach levels 50 per cent higher than before the Industrial Revolution due to human-caused emissions, according to the annual forecast of the…

Govt refuses to repeal farm laws, farmers adamant over withdrawal

By Navneet Mishra Jan 9, 2021 New Delhi The eighth round of meeting between the farmers and the Union Ministers remained inconclusive as the farmers’ leaders refused to discuss the clauses of the three farm…

Environment & Agriculture

Agitations spring up in Goa, amid shrinking land resources

Jan 8, 2021 Panaji:  Goa, geographically India’s smallest state, has been witnessing a series of protests over land intensive projects over the last few months. While the ruling BJP has blamed the “anti-development” agitations on…

Environment

Battle to douse wildfire in Dzukou Valley on for 9th day

Jan 6, 2021 Kohima/Imphal:  The wildfire in the famed Dzukou Valley on Nagaland-Manipur border continued for the ninth day on Wednesday, even as the Indian Air Force (IAF), Army, NDRF, state agencies and locals continue…

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