Ahmedabad: Project Lion, envisaged with an aim to conserve Asiatic lions and avert any risk of their extinction, will not relocate big cats anywhere outside the state. The Rs 1,300-crore Project Lion recommends setting up eight satellite habitats for the King of the Jungle in addition to the Gir sanctuary in his native Saurashtra. Top […]
Athens: In Athens’ Parliament Square, the Avazones parade under their red berths and sweltering heat. With sweat on their foreheads, the presidential guards rehearse their choreography in front of a group of tourists as a new heatwave hits the Greek capital. “They are wonderful, but they will suffer,” says Jim Grace, an Irish tourist who […]
NEW DELHI: Days after India asked rich countries in the G20 meet to bring down their per capita emissions to the global average by 2030, a new study on Wednesday flagged how many developed countries are in their pre-2020 commitments. have failed miserably. , including all G7 nations, have recorded only a 3.7% drop in […]
New Delhi: Nearly two-thirds of global drowning deaths occur in Asia Pacific, a report by the World Health Organization (WHO) said. The WHO on Friday launched its first regional status report on the prevention of drowning in Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific. During the launch of the report, Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh, Regional Director, […]
GENEVA: The head of the Geneva-based World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Petrie Talas said extreme weather events and natural disasters will continue to rise, adding that climate change is responsible for the torrential rains and deadly floods that ravaged Europe this summer. was the root cause. Speaking exclusively to Xinhua news agency on Monday, Talas said: […]
Beirut: Thousands of devout Muslims crowd IslamThe holiest sites in Saudi Arabia for the annual Hajj pilgrimage this week, scientists have warned that the sacred rites are under threat due to deadly rising heat. The study in the journal Environmental Research Letters found that with a global warming of 1.5 °C (2.7 °F) above pre-industrial […]
PORTLAND: The deadly heat wave roasting the Pacific Northwest and western Canada would have been nearly impossible without human-caused climate change that added a few extra degrees to record-breaking temperatures, a new accelerated scientific analysis found. An international team of 27 scientists calculated that climate change has increased the likelihood of extreme heat at least […]
New Delhi: The National Green Tribunal has constituted a new committee and directed it to submit a report on pollution caused by the operation of slaughterhouses and tanneries in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghaziabad. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel noted various deficiencies in the operation of the units, including illegal extraction of […]
FRANKFORT: The European Central Bank has adopted a new approach to managing the economy that will allow the bank to endure a temporary period of inflation marginally above its 2% target and take more climate change into account in its forecasts and stimulus programs . The new strategy announced on Thursday for the 19 countries […]
Pumala: The calm, icy waters of Finland’s Saimaa Lake are a boon to fishermen and tourists, but their presence also threatens one of the world’s rarest and most endangered seals. Despite seeing an improvement in numbers in recent decades, the Saimaa Ringed Seal still faces extinction amid climate change and difficult fishing habits. On Saimaa, […]