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Glaciers retreat at record pace as world marks first-ever Glaciers Day
Updated : 1 year, 2 months ago IST
Between 2022 and 2024, glaciers suffered their largest three-year mass loss ever, raising concerns about water shortages, rising sea levels, and increasing natural disasters, according to a new report by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the World Glacier Monitoring Service (WG
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Guterres calls for urgent funding to address rising sea levels from Tonga
Updated : 1 year, 9 months ago IST
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, speaking from Nuku'alofa, Tonga, urged global leaders to act swiftly on climate change, highlighting the unprecedented rise in sea levels due to greenhouse gases. He stressed the need for immediate emission reductions, increased financial support for
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Rising sea levels may lead to more methane emitted from wetlands: Research
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
Global warming is causing sea levels to rise, which is altering ecosystems. Scientists assumed that the tidal wetlands present in estuaries could create less methane, a strong greenhouse gas because the increased influx of seawater renders these habitats less hospitable to methane-producing
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On the path to CICA Ministerial Conference on environmental issues
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
Humanity is already witnessing the onset of a climate collapse, and unless the trajectory is altered, it will lead to disastrous consequences, such as droughts, rising sea levels, earthquakes, floods, water crises, and widespread extinction.
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Knesset hears plans to deal with flooding from climate change
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
As part of the Knesset’s Environment Day, representatives of the Ministry of Environmental Protection participated in a special discussion in the Interior and Environmental Protection Committee chaired by MK Ya’akov Asher, on the subject of coastal authorities dealing with the effects of cli
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Govt formulated plans to rehabilitate people from low-lying coastal areas:
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
The central government has formulated plans to rehabilitate people from low-lying coastal areas who may be adversely impacted due to rising sea levels in the coming decade, Union Minister of State for Earth Sciences Jitendra Singh informed the Rajya Sabha on Thursday.
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South Asia faces environmental watershed amid climate change: Experts
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
London [UK], December 16 (ANI): South Asian region is facing an environmental watershed from rising sea levels endangering the Maldives and melting of glaciers affecting Nepal and Afghanistan to overdevelopment that threatens Tibet's vital ecosystem and destabilisation caused by climate-indu
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China's coastal areas face increasing risks from rising sea levels: Report
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Beijing [China], May 5 (ANI): The sea levels along China's coastal areas have continued to rise at an accelerated pace in the past 40 years, posing a risk to these areas, Xinhua reported citing an official report.
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Rising sea levels due to global warming a threat to millions living in coa
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 25 (ANI): The rising sea levels, as shown from satellite data received from European Space Agency (ESA), is a threat to the millions of people living in coastal regions, said Secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) Madhavan Rajeevan on Sunday.
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Climate change affecting food production globally
Updated : 6 years, 12 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 1 (ANI): While climate change might find a close association with rising sea levels or high air pollution, a new study shows that climate change has affected the production of world's top ten crops in certain regions.
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Seychelles President rallies for ocean protection from an underwater subme
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Victoria [Seychelles], Apr 15 (ANI): In a first, the President of Seychelles, Daniel Faure, rallied for the protection of oceans through a live speech given from an underwater submersible on Sunday.
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Climate change may destroy Bengal tiger's home, study suggests
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 11 (ANI): Last coastal stronghold of an iconic predator, the endangered Bengal tiger, could be destroyed by climate change and rising sea levels over the next 50 years, a recent study claims.
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