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Climate Crisis Brought Extreme Weather, Heat In 2024: UN
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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Earthquake of magnitude 5.6 strikes Luzon in Philippines
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 Meets Fasting Farmer Leader Jagjit Dallewal
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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Tracing the Origins of Oaks: How Climate and Tectonic Changes Shaped Modern Trees
Rising global temperatures and shifting tectonic plates are believed to have shaped the development of one of Earth's most iconic trees, the oak (Quercus).
According to reports, the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), a significant…
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Need to control climate change to prevent mass rural migration: Narayana Murthy
Speaking at the Sustainability Crusade award ceremony organised by the J P Shroff Foundation, Infosys founder Narayana Murthy on Friday highlighted.
The risk of climate change-induced migration within India, warning that it could…
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Climate Crisis Threatens To Exploit Division, Polarisation: WHO Chief
World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Friday said that the climate crisis threatens to only exploit and exacerbate division and polarisation.
Taking to X, WHO Chief Ghebreyesus shared his experience…
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US Sets New Paris Climate Target That Trump Is Expected To Ignore
President Joe Biden's administration has set a new US target under the Paris climate agreement to slash greenhouse gas emissions by 61%-66% below 2005 levels by 2035.
A goal officials called achievable by states even if President-elect…
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White Christmas at risk: How climate change is impacting winter tourism
A white Christmas may increasingly become a nostalgic memory as the Northern Hemisphere sees ever fewer snowy winter days due to climate change.
With Europe warming quickest, a report warned on Tuesday. Driven primarily by humanity's mass…
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11 Dead As Cyclone Chido Wreaks Havoc In French Territory Of Mayotte
At least 11 people have died after Cyclone Chido caused devastating damage in the French territory of Mayotte in the Indian Ocean, France’s Interior Ministry said Sunday.
The intense tropical cyclone has now made landfall on the east coast…
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2025 ‘Likely’ To Be Among Top Three Warmest Years: UK Met Office
The UK weather service forecast Thursday that 2025 would likely be among the top three warmest years globally, falling just behind the record-breaking temperatures set in the past months.
According to the Meteorological Office's 2025…
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