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Why India continues to attract demand for global capability centres

According to a BCG study, India currently has over 1,500 global capability centres, with 300-500 to be added over the next five years

Climate aid to developing nations to take a hit amid global headwinds

India had proposed a loss and damage fund last year, but the COP26 final text steered clear of it

Is cricket sustainable amid climate change?

The warming of the earth, combined with the exhausting nature of the game, is raising questions about the future of the second most popular sport in the world

How weather impacts the economy

Not just scorched earth and people living on it, a good monsoon also soothes the economy and markets. Weather and economy are connected. Find out how nature still rules over us, despite tech advances

50-50 chance of Earth hitting key warming mark by 2026, say scientists

The world is creeping closer to the warming threshold international agreements are trying to prevent

UNDP announces $2.2 million in climate action grants for innovators

The UNDP and partners of the Adaptation Innovation Marketplace (AIM) have announced $2.2 million in climate action grants for 22 local innovators across 19 countries, including India.

Dos and Don'ts before/during a cyclone

Global warming speeding up world's water cycle, say researchers

This is leading to more extreme weather conditions with the world's wetter areas becoming even more soaked and the dry regions becoming even more parched: Report

Scientists urge quick, sweeping changes to halt biodiversity loss

Halting, then reversing the dangerous, ongoing loss of Earth's plant and animal diversity requires far more than an expanded global system of protected areas of land and seas, scientists warned

Bhupender Yadav holds telephone talks with US Envoy for Climate John Kerry

Bhupender Yadav held a telephonic call with John Kerry and discussed a wide range of issues including India's ambitious climate action targets announced during COP26.

The green deal: Renewable energy became the new buzzword in 2021

A year when several parts of the world bore the brunt of extreme weather conditions

Amazon's Black Friday greeted by climate activists, strikes in Europe

Amazon is facing criticism from climate activists who say excessive consumption harms the environment

Excess irrigation affects Indian monsoon, fuels extreme weather: Study

Excess irrigation over north India shifts the September monsoon rainfall towards the northwestern part of the subcontinent and increases widespread weather extremes across central India

Maximum temperature settles at 39.8 degree celsius in Delhi: IMD

The national capital on Sunday recorded a maximum temperature of 39.8 degrees Celsius, three notches above normal, the India Meteorological Department said here. The minimum temperature in the city settled at 26.2 degrees Celsius, and the relative humidity was recorded at 68 per cent, it said. The weather office said the city was likely to see partly cloudy skies with the possibility of thunder and lightning on Monday. The minimum and the maximum temperatures will be settling around 27 and 40 degrees Celsius respectively, it added. Delhi's air quality was in the moderate category on Sunday morning. Data from the Central Pollution Control Board showed that the hourly air quality index (AQI) at 6.05 pm stood at 137. An AQI between zero and 50 is considered good, 51 and 100 satisfactory, 101 and 200 moderate, 201 and 300 poor, 301 and 400 very poor, and 401 and 500 severe.

More people displaced due to climate disasters than conflicts in 2020

More than 55 million people had been forced to move by the end of 2020, with the number of climate migrants likely to be significantly underestimated due to incomplete data.

Stop developing new oil, gas, coalfields to avert climate crisis, says IEA

Within three decades, the role of fossil fuels should reverse entirely -- from 80% of global energy needs today to barely a fifth by mid-century.

India a world leader in deployment of renewable energy: US envoy John Kerry

US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry said that decisive action from the country now will determine what this transformation will mean for all generations to come

Moon once shared magnetic field with Earth, protecting atmosphere: Report

The Moon played a huge role in the evolution of life on Earth as a new study suggests that our natural satellite once had a magnetic field that helped shield our planet from harmful solar radiation

Climate events over 3,200 years caused variations in Indian Summer Monsoon

Global climatic events like the Roman Warm Period, Medieval Climate Anomaly, and the Little Ice Age may have had significant impacts on India's landscape, vegetation, and socio-economic growth, with abrupt shifts in the Indian Summer Monsoon (ISM) coinciding with these climatic events, a study by Indian researchers has found. The study by the Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, an institute of the Department of Science & Technology, shows wet monsoon conditions in the North-Western Himalaya between 1200 and 550 BCE. This condition prevailed till 450 AD, coinciding with the Roman Warm Period. It was followed by reduced precipitation and a weak ISM till 950 AD and then strengthened during the Medieval Climate Anomaly between 950 and 1350 AD. During the Little Ice Age, there was a pronounced reduction in monsoon precipitation. The study carried out with lake sediments from Rewalsar Lake, a freshwater lake in Mandi district of Himachal Pradesh, could resolve the long debate among ...

Will heat, humidity slow down coronavirus outbreak? What experts say

All five studies that have come out between March 10 and March 23 have analysed COVID-19's relation with temperature and humidity in China and in other countries with high number of cases