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| UN science report: Warming worsens security woes |
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| Business Standard , Monday, March 31, 2014 |
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In an authoritative report due out tomorrow a United Nations climate panel for the first time is connecting hotter global temperatures to hotter global tempers. Top scientists are saying that climate ...More
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| ‘Global warming to complicate world security issues’ |
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| The Hindustan Times , Monday, March 31, 2014 |
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In an authoritative report due out tomorrow a United Nations climate panel for the first time is connecting hotter global temperatures to hotter global tempers. Top scientists are saying that climat ...More
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| Odisha saves 460 Mw energy during Earth Hour |
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| Business Standard , Monday, March 31, 2014 |
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Odisha has clocked a significant power saving of 460 Mw during the 'Earth Hour' (8:30-9:30 pm) observed on Saturday at a time when the soaring mercury is escalating demand for power in the state.
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| State All Set to Observe Earth Hour |
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| The New Indian Express , Friday, March 28, 2014 |
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Leading sand artist Sudarshan Patnaik has been chosen as the ambassador of the Odisha campaign of Earth Hour to be observed from 8.30 pm to 9.30 pm on March 29.
Patnaik and his students will be putti ...More
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| UN chief witnesses climate change impacts in Greenland |
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| Business Standard , Thursday, March 27, 2014 |
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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon Wednesday saw first-hand the impacts of climate change during a visit to Greenland, where the melting of ice sheets is accelerating.
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| 2013 sixth warmest year on record |
| Kounteya Sinha |
| The Times of India , Wednesday, March 26, 2014 |
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LONDON: The year 2013 has now been confirmed to have been the sixth warmest year on record.
Thirteen of the fourteen warmest years on record have all occurred in the 21st century, and each of the ...More
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| 'Enlighten Youth on Climate Change Issues' |
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| The New Indian Express , Wednesday, March 26, 2014 |
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Speakers at a function organised by the Indian Meteorological Department here to mark World Meteorological Day on Monday stressed the need to engage youth on issues relating to climate change.
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| “Art” of climate change |
| Vasudevan Mukunth |
| The Hindu , Wednesday, March 26, 2014 |
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A team of researchers has taken a little-travelled route to study the effect of volcanic eruptions in the last five centuries: they studied paintings.
Between 1500 and 2000, the world saw more than 5 ...More
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| Climate scientists in Japan to study warming risks |
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| Business Standard , Wednesday, March 26, 2014 |
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Along with the enormous risks global warming poses for humanity are opportunities to improve public health and build a better world, scientists gathered in Yokohama for a climate change conference sai ...More
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| Come clean on water |
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| Business Standard , Wednesday, March 26, 2014 |
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The bad news on water is known to experts, but not perhaps to most Indians. By some estimates, India will become water scarce in just about five years, and be a massive 50 per cent short on water in a ...More
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| Aerosols may weaken hurricanes and cyclones |
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| Business Standard , Tuesday, March 25, 2014 |
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Aerosols in the atmosphere produced from human activities such as from factories and cars tend to weaken hurricanes or tropical cyclones, a new study has claimed.
Researchers including a team of T ...More
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| Weather extremes human-induced, says UN |
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| The Asian Age , Tuesday, March 25, 2014 |
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The Philippines’ devastating Typhoon Haiyan and drought in Australia are among recent weather extremes consistent with man-made climate change, the UN’s weather agency said on Monday.
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| A bid to link climate change to human rights |
| S. Gopikrishna Warrier |
| The Hindu , Tuesday, March 25, 2014 |
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In March 2012, President Anote Tong of Kiribati, an archipelago nation in the Pacific, informed international journalists that his Cabinet has endorsed a plan to buy 6,000 acres on Fiji’s main islan ...More
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| Big climate report: Warming is big risk for people |
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| Business Standard , Tuesday, March 25, 2014 |
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Top climate scientists are gathering in Japan this week to finish up a report on the impact of global warming. And they say if you think climate change is only faced by some far-off polar bear decades ...More
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