Climate Change

The annual warming of 1.55 degrees Celsius recorded in 2024 does not mean that the crucial Paris Agreement has been breached, rather it comes as a stark warning. That there is a need to step up climate action, said WMO Secretary-General…
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The melting of Antarctic ice sheets could be leading to more intense volcanic eruptions, with significant implications for Earth's geological systems. As ice sheets reduce in size. The massive weight they exert on the Earth's crust…
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For nearly 700 years, the Koli community in Mumbai has been making its subsistence from fishing, the Arabian Sea offering an abundance of piscine riches to enable it to do so. Today, however. The Kolis - who are an indigenous community in…
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The year 2024 was the hottest on record, a spokesperson for the World Meteorological Organisation said ahead of the release later on Friday of a comprehensive report incorporating. The findings of several regional climate monitoring…
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Amid heightened geopolitical tensions and instability, international cooperation has 'flatlined', but positive momentum in climate finance, trade and innovation offers some hope, a Global Cooperation Barometer showed on Tuesday. Releasing…
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Organic carbon preservation in ocean sediments, a phenomenon critical to the Earth's carbon cycle, has been illuminated by new research. The study explores mechanisms that prevent organic carbon from breaking down, a process vital for…
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Taiwan’s 2024 annual average temperature of 24.97°C is the highest recorded since 1897, surpassing the previous record of 24.91°C set in 2020, according to the Central Weather Administration. Taiwan said Tuesday that this year was the…
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Climate change sparked a trail of extreme weather and record heat in 2024, the United Nations said on Monday, urging the world to pull back from the "road to ruin". The outgoing year is set to be the warmest ever recorded, the UN's weather…
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A magnitude 5.6 earthquake struck Luzon in the Philippines on Monday, the German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) said. The quake was at a depth of 10 kilometers, GFZ said. Philippine seismology agency Phivolcs said the tremor struck…
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Climate activist Sonam Wangchuk on Saturday met with farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal, who has been fasting for over a month in support of protesting farmers' demands, at the Khanauri border demonstration site. Wangchuk met Dallewal…
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