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Current Antarctic conservation efforts insufficient to avoid biodiversity
Updated : 3 years, 2 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, 2 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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Warming climate spurs harmful oxygen loss in lakes: Research
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
New research shows a continually warming world is leading to extended, late-summer weeks of water stratification in lakes, which prompts oxygen deprivation in the water provoking conditions called hypoxia (low oxygen) and anoxia (no oxygen) and negative consequences for fish and other specie
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Cumulus clouds contribute to climate warming: Study
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Researchers analyzed the observational data that cumulus clouds near the Atlantic island of Barbados contributed to climate warming.
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Experts to deliberate India's circular economy for sustainable planet on F
Updated : 3 years, 4 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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Clouds may be the reason why climate change is reducing daily temperature
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Climate change is shrinking the difference between the daily high temperature and the daily low in many parts of the world.
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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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Improved air quality found to have accelerated global warming in recent de
Updated : 3 years, 5 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, 6 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, 6 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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Researchers warn Antarctica's ice shelves can melt at accelerated rate
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 14 (ANI): Researchers have warned that Antarctica's ice shelves may be melting at an accelerated rate, which could eventually contribute to a more rapid sea level rise.
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Climate Economics: Policies change people
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Potsdam [Germany], June 9 (ANI): The makers of climate policy should rethink about how people think. A team of researchers led by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) shows that abiding by climate-friendly policies actually changes the way people think about what they do.
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