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Odisha govt implements community-based action plan for making coastal comm
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], September 20 (ANI): In a step toward enhancing the climate resilience of coastal communities, the Odisha government has decided to implement a community-based action plan with an aim of making coastal communities more climate resilient.
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India committed to ensure food and nutritional security for its citizens:
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 20 (ANI): Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Narendra Singh Tomar on Monday said that India is committed to ensuring food and nutritional security for its citizens.
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WHO expresses concern over wave of diseases, deaths post floods in Pakista
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], September 18 (ANI): The World Health Organization on Saturday expressed deep concerns about the potential for a "second disaster in Pakistan: a wave of diseases and deaths" following the unprecedented floods caused by climate change, that have engulfed over 1,500 lives
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Air Canada purchases 30 electric-hybrid planes to combat climate change ef
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Ottawa [Canada], September 18 (ANI): Air Canada announced a purchase agreement for 30 ES-30 electric-hybrid aircraft to lower aircraft emissions and combat climate change's effects.
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Voltreum, a future-focused blockchain company launches Volt-X, their first
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Pune (Maharashtra) [India], September 17 (ANI/PNN): Voltreum will soon be launching "Volt-X", a blockchain-based peer-to-peer (P2P) energy trading application as well as a cryptocurrency token for seamless energy purchases and payments. The company's goal is to help solve one of the most cri
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US ratifies International Solar Alliance Agreement
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 17 (ANI): The US has ratified the International Solar Alliance Agreement.
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Technology Leadership in an accelerating world and forecasting the current
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 16 (ANI/SRV): The COVID-19 outbreak, inflation, the conflict in Ukraine, rising energy and food prices, and the catastrophic repercussions of climate change are the most obvious signs that the world is about to enter a prolonged era of instability. New age organi
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Research: Tropical insects are extremely sensitive to changing climates
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 15 (ANI): Insects that are adapted to perennially wet environments, like tropical rainforests, don't tend to do well when their surroundings dry out. New research indicates they may be equally averse to heavy rainfall. The results of an extensive five-year study co
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Unlock sustainability goals for the farm to fork model: Murali Manohar, Se
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], September 15 (ANI/NewsVoir): Natural resources like water, food, and energy are deeply interconnected, and challenges in one could have a substantial impact on the other. According to CSE and Down to Earth's State of India's Environment 2022 report, food practic
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Study finds Earth's most devastating mass extinctions triggered by slowing
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Washington [US], September 14 (ANI): Scientists have shed new light on the timing and likely cause of major volcanic events that occurred millions of years ago and caused such climatic and biological upheaval that they drove some of the most devastating extinction events in Earth's history.
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Cyril Shroff Scholarships instituted at University of Oxford
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Oxford [England]/Mumbai (Maharashtra)/New Delhi [India], September 14 (ANI/BusinessWire India): To commemorate 40 years in legal practice of India's leading corporate lawyer, Cyril Shroff, Managing Partner, Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, and the Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development ba
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China's drought threatens raise in carbon taxes
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Beijing [China], September 14 (ANI): The drought in southwestern China has also had ripple effects for global businesses as companies could also face new costs from carbon taxes when shipping goods across borders, as well as higher transport costs for moving products by sea or air, according
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