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Friday, August 22, 2025
TopicClimate change

Topic: Climate change

Central banks are waking up to climate-change dangers. Is RBI listening?

Financial institutions and their clients are facing an increased risk of litigation for their failure to manage risks associated with climate change.

Climate change threatens cultivation of Indian banana, global warming likely to hit output

A new study has found that climate change will slash banana yields, in a prospect daunting for India, the biggest consumer and producer of the fruit.

New Delhi falls 6 ranks, Mumbai by 2 in world’s most liveable cities index

The survey by Economist Intelligence Unit attributes the decline in Delhi's rank to poor air quality and rising crimes while Mumbai saw a downgrade in its culture score.

This is how Cape Town averted a water crisis, just days before running dry

Cape Town’s water crisis got so bad last year that there were competitions to see who could wash their shirts the least.

The world needs to make the extinct woolly mammoth a protected species

As Siberian permafrost melts, preserved mammoths bearing huge tusks have been unearthed. Grade And the market for mammoth ivory is only expanding.

Amazon forest is reaching its tipping point, world needs to scale solutions

If even 20-25 per cent of Amazon is deforested, its capacity to absorb carbon dioxide would collapse and it could become its biggest patch of scrub land.

Calls to name this era the anthropocene are only fair given mess humans left behind

Naming this era after humans is the first step toward strategies for minimising its damaging influence on the planet.

Extinction is normal but plants going extinct 350 times faster should alarm us

Earth is seeing an unprecedented loss of species, which some ecologists are calling a sixth mass extinction. More recently, 571 plant species were declared extinct.

Iceland holds a ‘funeral’ – for its glacier that it lost to climate change

ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to the best sources to read them.

Climate change deniers dominate YouTube searches on warming crisis, study finds

The study was conducted by a researcher at RWTH Aachen University, Germany, and published in Frontiers of Communication.

On Camera

Tariffs, chips, and China — how Trump’s trade playbook affects India

Trump’s OBBB is framed to augment domestic semiconductor production and enhance trade protection, even at the expense of certain social programs such as Medicaid, food stamps, and student loans, as well as a projected ballooning federal deficit from US$2.8 to 3.3 trillion

New insolvency frameworks to shorter timelines, how 2025 amendment bill proposes to transform IBC

New bill aims to fix key issues with IBC 2016, including delays & patchy implementation, and protect creditors, with window for genuine promoters to retain control of their companies.

Indian firm joins hands with US manufacturer to locally develop all-terrain vehicles for armed forces

Under joint venture, JSW Sarbloh Motors will indigenise and manufacture TX range ATVs in Chandigarh. The first India-assembled unit is expected by early 2026.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?