Switzerland has had its worst decade of ice melt on record, with one quarter of glacier volume lost since 2015, glaciers below 3,000m above sea level suffered in particular this year.
Through streamflow reconstructions for 1,300 yrs using instrumental data & hydrological modelling, IIT Gandhinagar study shows Ganga 'drying from 1991-2020 is unmatched in past millennium'.
Drone image shared by Swiss President Karin Keller-Sutter shows all of Blatten buried in mud. Swiss glaciers have lost 40% of volume since 2000, according to Swiss Academy of Sciences.
Geologists analysed ancient rock crystals from Australia to find that freshwater appeared on earth a mere 600 million years after the formation of the planet.
Scientists have ample evidence of GLOF events unleashing megafloods. The Sikkim flash flood happened after decades of warnings about exactly such an occurrence.
The sea temperature surged to a new record in June due to longer-term changes and, in part, El Nino, fueling tropical cyclones in the Pacific and boosting rainfall.
The report added that at 1.5 degrees Celsius or 2C of warming above pre-industrial temperatures, glaciers across the entire region will lose 30% to 50% of their volume by 2100.
Researchers found warmer water making its way into crevasses and other openings known as terraces, causing sideways melt of 30 meters (98 feet) or more per year.
While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.
Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.
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