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Glaciers retreat at record pace as world marks first-ever Glaciers Day
Updated : 11 months, 4 weeks 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, 6 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, 1 month 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, 1 month 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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Basal melting of ice shelves in Greenland may lead to a 2-meter rise in se
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
Published in 'Nature Communications' on Tuesday, a study into Greenland's huge northern glaciers found that melting of ice shelves may lift the sea levels by 2.1 meters, nearly 7 feet if the glaciers were to break down completely.
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Israel preparing for climate change problems
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
The Ministry of Environmental Protection held a meeting of the Climate Change Preparedness Directorate to promote the formulation of the national plan for climate change and to prepare for expected rises in sea levels.
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Knesset hears plans to deal with flooding from climate change
Updated : 2 years, 7 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 : 2 years, 11 months 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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The Art of Living JalTara - a reliable and vigilant solution tackles the u
Updated : 2 years, 12 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], March 16 (ANI/PRNewswire): The groundwater crisis in India is a cause and an indicator of the ongoing climate change in the world. It fights individuals in the form of contaminated water sources, untimed floods and droughts, rise in sea levels, and shrinking ic
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Building higher islands could save Maldives from sea-level rise: Study
Updated : 3 years ago IST
In the Maldives and other low-lying nations, artificially boosting island heights or building whole new higher islands have been advocated as remedies to sea-level rise.
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Research reveals how fast-moving glaciers might affect sea level rise
Updated : 3 years, 4 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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South Asia faces environmental watershed amid climate change: Experts
Updated : 4 years, 2 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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