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Border Roads Organisation breaks record at Zoji La battling extreme weathe
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 4 (ANI): The Border Roads Organisation (BRO) has raised its benchmark of excellence yet again by extending access to the formidable Zojila at an altitude of 11,649 ft, Zoji mountain pass remained open beyond 31st December.
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Too dry, too hot, or too wet: Increasing weather persistence in European s
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Potsdam [Germany], December 6 (ANI): A novel analysis of atmospheric images and data has found that global warming makes long-lasting weather situations in the Northern hemisphere's summer months more likely, which in turn leads to more extreme weather events.
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UN urges immediate climate action to cool 'season of fire and floods' worl
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
New York [US], September 7 (ANI/Xinhua): With extreme weather events increasingly impacting countries across the world, the United Nations (UN) on Monday underlined the importance of limiting temperature rise to the internationally agreed goal of 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial leve
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Record-breaking extreme weather events might result from similar underlyin
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 14 (ANI): An international research team recently examined three extreme events from the past winter to elucidate the mechanisms underlying such swings in temperature and weather, during a new study.
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Record-breaking extreme weather events could be outcome of similar underly
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 9 (ANI): During a new study, an international research team examined three extreme events from the past winter to elucidate the mechanisms underlying such swings in temperature and weather.
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China grappling with worst power shortage in a decade as weather, energy d
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Beijing [China], June 30 (ANI): China is currently grappling with a huge power crunch as extreme weather, increasing demand for energy and strict limits on coal usage deliver a triple blow to the nation's electricity grid. This problem could last for months, straining the country's economic
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Maccaferri successfully completes landslide mitigation works in the hilly
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Gurgaon (Haryana) [India], June 9 (ANI/NewsVoir): Maccaferri in India recently announced the completion of one of its biggest landslide mitigation projects in Lambagarh, Uttarakhand located on NH-58, the road leading to the holy shrine of Badrinath temple. Extreme weather events are on the r
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Cyclone Tauktae: Rescued workmen from barge P305 recall horror at sea, tha
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], May 20 (ANI): Battling extreme weather conditions, the Navy had rescued at least 186 survivors and recovered 26 bodies from barge P305 that sank in the Arabian Sea 35 nautical miles from Mumbai under the impact of Cyclone Tauktae on Wednesday.
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Acute food insecurity soars to five-year high: UN report
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Brussels/Rome, May 6 (ANI): The number of people facing acute food insecurity and needing urgent life and livelihood-saving assistance has hit a five-year high in 2020 in countries beset by food crises, an annual report launched by the Global Network Against Food Crises (GNAFC) has found.
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Spurt in suicide rate in Pakistani desert region linked to poverty driven
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Sindh [Pakistan], April 18 (ANI): At least 143 people have taken their own lives in Thar desert's Tharparkar, Umerkot districts between 2016 to 2020. Extreme weather patterns are frequent threat, major cause of poverty pushing people to suicide in Pakistani desert region.
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Epidemics top the world's short-term risks: WEF
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], January 19 (ANI): Infectious diseases, extreme weather and livelihood crises pose a critical threat to the world in the next two years, according to the latest survey by World Economic Forum (WEF) members from business, government and academia.
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Have made sufficient arrangements for jawans in view of extreme cold: ITBP
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 31 (ANI): The Indo-Tibetan Border Police on Tuesday said that it has made sufficient arrangements so that jawans deployed in extreme weather conditions don't face any problem.
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