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TopicOcean pollution

Topic: Ocean pollution

‘Vigyan Shri’ awardee says Indian Ocean remains poorly explored, hails Samudrayaan deep-sea mission

Soumya Pillai -
In an interview with ThePrint, Syed Wajih Ahmad Naqvi talks about the need for ocean studies with climate change challenges and other related issues.

Countries pledge to raise $12 billion to protect coral reefs from pollution, overfishing

David Stanway -
However, experts warned the funding would only be a drop in the ocean unless broader climate risks are addressed.

High Seas Treaty not about putting nature in a bell jar. It’s a bid to save oceans

Gemma Parkes -
National governments still need to formally adopt and ratify the treaty but as conference President Rena Lee said, "the ship has reached the shore."

The world has wronged its oceans, but 2022 can be the year for redemption, says UN

Peter Thomson -
Steady abuse has turned our oceans into a breathless, acerbic mess. Its high time we turned to innovative solutions

93% of the world’s ocean is unprotected. It can cost more than three billion people

Sharon Ikeazor -
Protecting and restoring ocean habitats such as seagrass beds, salt marshes, and mangroves, and their associated food webs are critical.

Plastic pollution is pushing marine life towards extinction, WWF study says

Douglas Broom -
The level of microplastics in our oceans is set to grow 50 fold by the end of the century, raising the risk of widespread extinction of marine life.

Scientists used a robotic submarine to find out how much plastic the ocean floor has

Natalie Marchant -
There’s more than twice the amount of plastic on the ocean floor than on its surface.

World was about to close deals that could save oceans, and then Covid changed everything

Virginia Gewin -
The oceans are critical to any effort to slow global warming. Delay in global agreements has only made matters that much more desperate.

High CO2 levels, vanishing glaciers, extinctions – why climate change is more real in 2019

Sandhya Ramesh -
Scientists have found that the Greenland ice sheet is melting seven times faster, extinctions occurring 500 times more rapidly and food supply faces threat.

World’s oceans may seem unimportant, but letting it die isn’t an option

Noah Smith -
Unless something is done, the world’s seas — home to more than half of the planet’s life — will be irrevocably despoiled.
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Youth Congress, your foolish protest helped the Modi govt climb out of the AI summit hole

+TFP Vir Sanghvi -
In tactical terms, the shirtless protest was worse than a self-goal. Suddenly, the fiascos of the AI Summit were forgotten, and the Youth Congress’s disruption became the issue.

Why legal provisions are necessary to curb the power of trade unions: MH Mody

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Economy

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

Vrinda Tulsian -
On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

Defence

MoD, IAF agree on some exemptions to HAL for Tejas Mk1A, but no compromise on ‘must-have’ capabilities

Snehesh Alex Philip -
IAF is fine with accepting the aircraft with 'must-haves', even if some other steps remain pending, which may take at least another year, it is learnt.

National Interest

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

Shekhar Gupta -
India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.

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