Berkeley Earth said August 2023 exceeded the previous record set in August 2016 by 0.31 degrees Celsius, “a surprisingly large margin, well outside the margin of uncertainty”.
Organizers expect global turnout over weekend to total over million people. That could make this action the largest international climate protest since before Covid-19 pandemic.
Scientists have said the world ideally needs to limit global average temperature rise to 1.5C this century to avoid catastrophic effects from climate change.
Declaration acknowledges need for developing countries to be aided in energy transition & critical role of circular economy, and calls for AI to be leveraged for the public good.
Proposing a global-level initiative to take ethanol blending in petrol to up to 20%, Modi says need of the hour is that all countries work together in the field of fuel blending.
India’s presidency will set the tone for COP28. The first step is to commit to doubling the rate of improvement of energy efficiency & tripling renewable energy capacity by 2030.
A study by Climate Central, a US-based research group, looked at temperatures in 180 countries and 22 territories and found that 98% of the world's population were exposed to higher temperatures.
Teachers who felt confident with the scientific “facts”, often felt less equipped to respond to student enquiries about social and emotional dimensions of climate change.
The report found that climate shocks do not cause conflicts, but they worsen existing unrest and exacerbate other underlying fragilities, such as hunger and poverty.
There's nothing new in the assertion that human morality and the environment are intimately linked, but the degree of change now happening has introduced a new level of concern.
Donald Trump seems to have rejected the old assumptions. He does not care that India is the world’s largest democracy. As for the Indian market, he wants access on his own terms.
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham says bill will be 'well-timed, as Ukraine is making concessions for peace and Putin is all talk, continuing to kill the innocent'.
Indian Army has inducted loitering munitions, kamikaze and surveillance drones for over Rs 5,000 crore post Operation Sindoor from various domestic firms.
Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.
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