Climate patterns like La Niña in the Pacific Ocean, occurring for the first time in 8 years, could determine whether this year will be the warmest on record.
The confusion around the climate terms is “widespread”. The use of terms such as “net-zero carbon dioxide” or “net-zero greenhouse gases” can make it easier for nations to be on the same page.
The UN is going through one its most challenging periods ever, and keeps churning out increasingly grim reports on the global threats it was created to ameliorate.
La Nina typically affects a broad range of farm commodities, as it brings above-average winter-spring rainfall in Australia and Southeast Asia, with the potential for flooding.
Only half of the world’s forests are still intact, a third being primary forests – natural woodlands composed of native species, not disturbed by human activity.
Delivering the 19th Darbari Seth Memorial Lecture, UN General Secretary Antonio Guterres stressed on how clean energy can help economies recover from Covid-19 pandemic.
Peter Manuel's ‘Cassette Culture’ showed the booming Bhakti music during the '80s and '90s when Anoop Jalota, Gulshan Kumar achieved success by singing the sanitised Bhajans.
Economists say there are weaknesses in India’s GDP data. But statisticians claim the accusations are based on flawed understanding, saying while GDP has problems, the economists are looking in the wrong places.
COMMENTS