Past decade was hottest on record, extreme weather events will continue, warns UN agency

The World Meteorological Organization confirmed that 2019 was the second-hottest year on record.

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· Jan 16, 2020 · 01:01 pm

The last decade was India’s hottest on record, 2019 was seventh warmest year: IMD

Extreme weather events, such as avalanches, floods, heat wave and thunderstorms, killed about 1,630 persons in 2019.

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· Jan 08, 2020 · 01:59 pm

UN climate talks fail to reach consensus on stronger targets, secretary general ‘disappointed’

Countries will now pledge new targets next year only, and the issue of carbon markets remains unresolved.

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· Dec 16, 2019 · 07:38 pm

‘No threat of Mumbai getting submerged, trust Indian scientists’ data’: Union minister Harsh Vardhan

A research published in an international journal had said in October that large portions of Mumbai are at the risk of going under water by 2050.

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· Dec 03, 2019 · 08:32 pm

Donald Trump’s views on climate change ‘so extreme’ it wakes people up, says Greta Thunberg

The Swedish activist said that she thought when the US president got elected people would finally wake up.

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· Nov 13, 2019 · 11:49 am

Earth is facing a climate emergency, warn over 11,000 scientists from 153 nations

The report provided six policy goals that must be implemented to address the emergency.

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· Nov 06, 2019 · 09:45 am

India among ‘most vulnerable’ to rising sea levels due to climate change, says UN chief

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres said that unless countries changed the trend, 300 million people will face floods by 2050.

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· Nov 05, 2019 · 09:15 am

By 2050, Mumbai and other major coastal cities may be wiped out by rising sea, say researchers

A paper published in ‘Nature’ estimated that rising sea levels could affect three times more people than current projections.

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· Oct 30, 2019 · 10:44 am

This map shows that climate chaos is already claiming lives (including in India)

A pilot project plots deaths linked to natural resource insecurity.

Aled Jones and Davide Natalini, The Conversation

· Oct 24, 2019 · 01:30 pm

Will climate fiction change 21st century literature the way that modernism did in the 20th century?

The third and final of a three-part exploration of the relationship between climate change and literature.

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· Oct 20, 2019 · 12:30 pm

Dystopia or utopia? Politics or aesthetics? What are the challenges of writing climate fiction?

The second of a three-part exploration of the relationship between climate change and literature.

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· Oct 13, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Arvind Kejriwal addresses Denmark climate event via video link, signs clean air declaration

The Centre had denied Kejriwal permission to travel for the event.

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· Oct 11, 2019 · 10:38 pm