climate change
- India
69 pc people in India seeing severe effects of climate change: Survey
New Delhi: Around two-thirds of people in India say climate change has already had a severe effect in the areas where they live and it is likely that their families will be…
- Middle East
Egypt among world’s most countries affected by climate change, says minister
Cairo: Egyptian Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation Hani Suweilam has said that Egypt is one of the world’s most affected countries by climate change, a news website reported. The Egyptian minister…
- Bangalore
Bengaluru rains: No Indian city including Hyderabad immune to climate change, says KTR
Hyderabad: Telangana MA&UD minister KT Rama Rao on Monday said that no city, including the city of Hyderabad is immune to the effects of climate change and the infusion of capital into…
- Technology
Tech can help solve some of India’s biggest challenges: Microsoft President
New Delhi: Microsoft President and Vice Chair Brad Smith on Thursday said that technology can help solve some of India’s biggest challenges, like climate change and food security. Smith, who is in…
- World
Around 30 per cent of Pakistan reeling under ‘monster floods’, over 1000 killed
Flooding in Pakistan was triggered by the greatest rains in more than three decades pushing around thirty per cent of the country’s land area into the water and leading to the death…
- Featured News
The world’s biggest ice sheet is more vulnerable to global warming than scientists previously thought
Durham (UK): The eastern two-thirds of Antarctica is covered by an ice sheet so large that if it melted the sea would rise by 52 Most scientists had once thought this ice…
- India
Climate change making prediction difficult for weather agencies across world: IMD DG
New Delhi: Climate change has hampered the ability of the forecasting agencies to accurately predict severe events and weather bureaus across the world are focusing on augmenting the observational network density and…
- Middle East
20 dead, 89 injured in torrential rains in southern Iran
Tehran: Torrential rains in Fars Province, southern Iran on Friday killed at least 20 people, and injured 89 others, according to the Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS). Heavy rains on Friday evening…
- World
Europe heatwave calls for action to combat climate change: WHO
Copenhagen: As Europe reels from the effects of a prolonged heatwave responsible for a series of ferocious wildfires and escalating record-breaking high temperatures, regional governments have been urged by the World Health Organization…
- India
‘Climate change questions’ least asked in Parliament, 0.3% queries in 20 years
New Delhi: As many as 895 questions related to climate change were raised by 1,019 Members of Parliament, forming only 0.3 percent of the total queries asked in the House in 20…
- Telangana
Telangana, UNDP build DiCRA to enhance food security
Hyderabad: The Telangana government in partnership with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), announced Data in Climate Resilient Agriculture (DiCRA) as the latest addition to the Digital Public Goods Registry. The DiCRA,…
- World
Bangladesh floods: Six million people marooned; Army called in
Dhaka: Incessant rains and gushing waters have marooned at least six million people in Bangladesh, prompting authorities to call in the Army to assist in the rescue and relief operations. Officials estimate…
- World
UN chief: Governments’ inaction on climate is ‘dangerous’
Berlin: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Tuesday of a dangerous disconnect between what scientists and citizens are demanding to curb climate change, and what governments are actually doing about it. Guterres said…
- World
Why world is facing largest cost-of-living crisis in a generation?
United Nations: The world is facing a cost-of-living crisis unseen in at least a generation, partly due to the Ukraine conflict, said a UN report. “The largest cost-of-living crisis of the 21st…