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Centre bars tourism activity at Shri Sammed Shikharji in Jharkhand, amid p
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren wrote to Union Environment, Forest and Climate Change Department Bhupendra Yadav regarding the Shri Sammed Shikharji.
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Climate impact labels on sample fast food menu had strong effect on food s
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
A new study has found that including climate impact labels on a sample fast food menu influenced participants' food choices in favour of more climate-friendly items. The study was led by a researcher at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
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Jaishankar holds talks with IAEA chief on global energy situation, Ukraine
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Jaishankar and Grossi discussed further enhancing IAEA's collaboration with India in many areas including combating climate change, medical care and other nuclear applications for societal benefit. In a tweet, IAEA Director General said that he held "excellent dialogue" with minister Jaishan
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Mirror image molecules reveal drought stress in forests
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
As with pinene, many monoterpenes occur in two mirror-image forms: (+) alpha-pinene and (-) alpha-pinene. Plants can release both forms of these volatile molecules directly after biosynthesis or from storage pools in leaves. Because the two chiral or enantiomeric forms have identical physica
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Climate data can help model spread of Covid-19: Research
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Covid-19 transmission can be more accurately modelled by incorporating meteorological factors, with ultraviolet (UV) radiation as the main driver, according to a new study.
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Potential climate change-nutrition connection in plant metabolism uncovere
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
A new study from researchers at Michigan State University underscores that there's still much to learn regarding how plants will function, and how nutritious they will be, as more carbon enters our atmosphere.
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Assam CM flags off 100 CNG-run buses in fight against climate change
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday flagged off 100 new CNG-run buses in the state's capital city Guwahati and also inaugurated the city's first CNG fuel station.
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Polarity proteins in grass shape efficient "breathing" pores: Research
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Grasses have "respiratory pores" (called stomata) that open and close to regulate the uptake of carbon dioxide for photosynthesis on the one hand and water loss through transpiration on the other.
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COP26 chief Alok Sharma, economist Partha Sarthi Dasgupta among Indian-ori
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
"Alok Sharma receives a Knighthood for his contribution to combating climate change through his leadership at COP26 and driving the UK to agree a historic agreement from individual countries that will have a major impact in addressing climate change in the future," UK Foreign, Commonwealth a
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Delhi pollution: CAQM Sub-Committee under GRAP holds emergency meeting
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
"While assessing the overall air quality parameters, the Sub-Committee noted that due to extremely unfavourable meteorological conditions the overall air quality of Delhi has deteriorated over the last few hours and there is an increasing trend further in the coming days as per the Air Quali
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Pakistan floods reminder that climate change will bring more disasters in
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
According to the United Nations' 2022 Year in Review report on Climate and Environment, in 2022, while some regions suffered from a lack of water, others were hit by severe floods.
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Textbooks not keeping pace of increasing climate impacts: Research
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
A new study from North Carolina State University finds that biology textbooks have done a poor job of incorporating material related to climate change. For example, the study found that most textbooks published in the 2010s included less information about climate change than they did in the
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