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Earth Day 2020: Today's Google Doodle is all about 'The Bee'
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 22 (ANI): As the world observes the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, Google has marked the special day with a doodle featuring one of the smallest and most critical organisms - the honey bee.
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Emphasis on new crop technologies to boost India's climate action - Dr Shi
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 29 (ANI/NewsVoir): Bushfires in summers are not uncommon for the people living in Australia. But what they witnessed this year was a mega-blaze, burning over five million hectares of land and claiming human lives.
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COP26 President Claire O'Neill to spell out UK's vision on climate action
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 15 (ANI): Claire O'Neill, UK President of the 2020 UN Climate Change Conference (COP26), is expected to set out her country's vision on climate action at the ongoing Raisina Dialogue 2020 in the national capital and outline India's crucial role in the sector.
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Infosys presented UN Global Climate Action Award at COP 25
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], Dec 11 (ANI): Digital services major Infosys is the first Indian corporate to have been presented the prestigious United Nations Global Climate Action Award in the 'climate neutral now' category at UN Climate Change Conference (COP 25) held at Madrid in Spain.
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Swedish royal couple clean up Mumbai's Versova beach with climate activist
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Mumbai [India], Dec 4 (ANI): Carl XVI Gustaf King of Sweden and his wife Queen Silvia on Wednesday engaged in removing tons of plastic and other garbage along with young lawyer and Mumbai-based climate activist Afroz Shah.
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Greta Thunberg goes cycling with Arnold Schwarzenegger
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C [USA], Nov 6 (ANI): Climate change activist Greta Thunberg who shook the entire nation with her speech at UN Climate Action Summit in New York, went cycling with actor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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Leonardo DiCaprio hails Greta Thunberg, calls her 'leader of our time'
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C [USA], Nov 3 (ANI): Actor Leonardo Di Caprio praised teen climate activist Greta Thunberg after the two met in California this week.
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'Thanks to India', UN says solar panels are effective climate action measu
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
New York [USA], Oct 3 (ANI): The United Nations on Thursday once again appreciated India for installing over 195 solar panels at its headquarters in New York, saying "these are just some of the ways" undertaken towards climate protection and carbon control.
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There's no Earth B: Children skip school to walk the talk on climate chang
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi (India), Sept 27 (ANI): "We have to raise our thoughts, not the sea levels," was the hard-hitting message echoing the parliament street adjoining Jantar Mantar here on Friday when dozens of children skipped school to draw everyone's attention to today's urgency - climate change!
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Infosys wins UN Global Climate Action Award for 'carbon neutral now' categ
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], Sept 27 (ANI): Digital services and consulting major Infosys has won the United Nations Global Climate Action Award in 'carbon neutral now' category, becoming the only Indian corporate to earn the recognition for its efforts to combat climate change.
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Coalition for disaster resilient infrastructure developed in consultations
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi, Sept 24 (ANI) The global Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI), announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the UN Climate Action Summit on Monday, has been developed through consultations with more than 35 countries and envisions enabling a measurable reduction
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Group of 16 young climate activists including India's Ridhima Pandey file
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
New York [US], Sept 24 (ANI): Sixteen youth activists including India's Ridhima Pandey and Swedish Greta Thunberg on Monday filed an "official complaint" before the United Nations Committee demanding the organisation to order member states to take actions for protecting children from the "de
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