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'Winter skincare': Tips to incorporate in your daily routine for glowy, he
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
Winter is here! While the chilly wind brings on a festive mood, it also makes us want to stay sedentary, drink hot cocoa, and snuggle up under a blanket. There are many benefits to winter, but there are also some things we'd rather avoid. Cold winters result in a climate that dries out th
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Plants can adapt their lignin using 'chemically encoding' enzymes to face
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
A new study shows how plants "encode" specific chemistries of their lignin to grow tall and sustain climate changes: each plant cell uses different combinations of the enzymes LACCASEs to create specific lignin chemistries. These results can be used both in agriculture and in forestry for se
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Research: Old-growth trees provide buffer against climate change
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
A new analysis of more than 20,000 trees on five continents shows that old-growth trees are more drought tolerant than younger trees in the forest canopy and may be better able to withstand future climate extremes.
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US congratulates India on its G20 presidency, looks forward to sharing cha
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
US on Friday congratulated India on assuming the G20's presidency on December 1 for one year till November 30, 2023.
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"India has a middle-ground to bring different parties to the table," says
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Underscoring the importance of India's G20 presidency, the External Affairs Minister, S Jaishankar on Thursday said that India has a middle-ground to bring different parties to the table.
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India assumes G20 presidency "at very challenging time in world politics:"
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday highlighted a sea change in geopolitics and said that India's G-20 presidency comes at "a very challenging time in world politics and at an inflexion point."
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PM Modi will set agenda for world during challenging times: G20 Sherpa Ami
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Kant noted that India is taking the G-20 Presidency at a very challenging time. "There is a geopolitical crisis, there is a crisis of climate finance and climate action. 70 countries are facing a global debt crisis. And as a consequence of COVID, 200 million people have gone below the pov
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Cumulus clouds contribute to climate warming: Study
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Researchers analyzed the observational data that cumulus clouds near the Atlantic island of Barbados contributed to climate warming.
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People must leave the planet "much greener and much richer" than how they
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
The international conference on Waste to Worth was organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and was held under the aegis of the Office of the PSA, supported by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.
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Study reveals what ancient underwater food webs can tell us about the futu
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Have humans wreaked too much havoc on marine life to halt damage? New analysis challenges the idea that ocean ecosystems have barely changed over millions of years, pointing scientists down a new path in conservation efforts and policy.
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Greener cooling pathway can create a $1.6-trn investment opportunity in In
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
The World Bank in a report said this also has the potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions significantly and create nearly 3.7 million jobs. India is experiencing higher temperatures every year.
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Personalities of Red Knots affect way they search for food: Research
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Researcher Selin Ersoy, an ecologist at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), studied how 'personalities' of individual Red Knots differ and affect the way they search for food.
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