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Ice age may help predict oceans' response to global warming: Study
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
A team of scientists led by a Tulane University oceanographer discovered that deposits deep beneath the ocean floor provide a means to estimate ocean oxygen levels and their relationship to carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere during the last ice age, which ended more than 11,000 years a
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Study emphasises necessity of addressing risk of post-net zero global warm
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
Since global warming is an inevitable consequence of burning fossil fuels, the only strategy we have to stop it is to bring human activity's CO2 emissions down to "net zero," or the point at which the amount of CO2 we release into the atmosphere and the amount we take out of it is equal.
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Rising thunderstorm activity may indirectly accelerate global warming: Res
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
Israeli researchers have uncovered a compelling connection between thunderstorms and the proliferation of wispy cirrus clouds, potentially accelerating global warming.
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High time to fast-track climate efforts as humanity on thin ice: UN Chief
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
United Nations Chief Antonio Guterres on Monday in a video message said that it is high time to fast-track the climate efforts as humanity is on thin ice in the present times.
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Union Min RK Singh calls on G20 partners to come together against global w
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Union Minister for Power and New and Renewable Energy RK Singh on Sunday called upon the G20 member countries to come together in countering the challenges posed by global warming and climate change.
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Current Antarctic conservation efforts insufficient to avoid biodiversity
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Existing conservation efforts are insufficient to protect Antarctic ecosystems, and population declines are likely for 65 per cent of the continent's plants and wildlife by the year 2100, according to a study
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Study identifies new cause for melting Antarctic ice shelves
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Researchers have discovered a process that can contribute to the melting of ice shelves in the Antarctic. An international team of scientists found that adjacent ice shelves play a role in causing instability in others downstream.
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Experts to deliberate India's circular economy for sustainable planet on F
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
A circular economy is when goods are designed and produced in such a manner that they can be reused, refurbished, re-manufactured or recycled at the end of their life, thereby preventing waste generation.
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Research reveals how fast-moving glaciers might affect sea level rise
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Oxford [UK], October 17 (ANI): Sea levels are rising as a result of climate change due to ocean expansion and ice melting on land. Sea level rise in the near future will be influenced by a number of factors, some of which include how frequently glaciers calve. These happen when big chunks of
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Improved air quality found to have accelerated global warming in recent de
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 22 (ANI): An international research team has used satellite data to demonstrate that concentrations of pollutant particles have decreased significantly since the year 2000. This is desirable due to their impact on health. But it is also of great significance for an
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Climate change phenomenon deeply unfair, impacts more severely felt by the
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India] September 1 (ANI): Emphasising on coordinated action for sustainable development, Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Bhupender Yadav on Thursday said the climate change phenomenon is deeply unfair as its negative impacts are more severely felt by the
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Research reveals global warming spawned the age of reptiles
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 23 (ANI): Researchers reveal the rapid evolution and radiation of reptiles actually began before the end of the Permian in connection to the steadily increasing temperatures, which drove successive climate changes over 60 million years.
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