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Thursday, August 21, 2025
TopicClimate change

Topic: Climate change

India’s GDP may see 2.8% dip by 2050 due to climate change: World Bank

Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh to be the worst affected, with a severe fall in living standards, says report.

This is how we can solve 5 of the biggest threats to our oceans

Oceans cover 70% of the earth’s surface. For a healthy planet, we need healthy oceans. Here are five of the biggest challenges our oceans face, and what we can do to help.

Monsoon rain may decline by 45% in long term, shows climate model made by Indian scientists

Patterns of low pressure systems over Bay of Bengal will slowly reduce in intensity and frequency, Indian researchers from 5 institutes have found.

Trump’s America has the most number of flat earth believers & climate change deniers

In the field of global climate change, scientific bodies often are accused, even by those in power, of fabricating data.

Breakthrough: Indian-origin scientist uses solar energy to extract Hydrogen from water

In a big push for solar fuel, Govinder Singh Pawar has created a semiconductor that can store solar energy more efficiently than any other method we know today.

As the world warms, not everyone stays cool

Increase in the need of cooling, and then burning of more fossil fuel to generate electricity, everything is contributing to climate change and gradually raising atmospheric temperature.

Frequent thunderstorms and dust storms another gift of a warming world

The mechanisms for thunderstorms and dust storms are essentially the same; the only difference being that it’s a thunderstorm when there’s moisture, and a dust storm when it’s dry.

Foreign cricketers refuse to play in Pak & their National Day hosts second foreign president

Also, Pakistan gets first woman opp leader, China gives Pakistan a pair of new eyes for its missiles and Sindh's climate change crisis continues.

With help from ISRO, Japan plans to take humans to the moon by 2020s

Space agency chief Naoki Okumura says Japan & India may be in competition, but cooperation on moon mission will help fend off other countries.

Global Pulse: Taking a right turn

As right-wing demagoguery continues to grow from Poland all the way to Brazil, negotiators from almost 200 countries meet this week in Bonn, Germany, in the biggest climate change talks of the year.

On Camera

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.

First-of-its kind tri-services conference Ran Samvad to take place in Army War College next week

Billed as the military’s own version of Raisina Dialogue, the event will spotlight on tech-driven warfighting, lessons from Operation Sindoor and release of three new doctrines.

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?