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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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Opinion

What India can learn from the US-Israel war on Iran

R Jagannathan -
Without any air force or navy worth the name, both Iran and Ukraine have held two superpowers at bay.

Communism is based on self-deluding assumptions, it can’t be realised in practice: GN Lawande

Indian govt is scrambling to manage LPG shortage while denying it exists

Economy

Rich state, borrowed money: Karnataka’s growth story has a debt problem that is only getting worse

Sharan Poovanna -
Karnataka contributes billions to national growth and FDI, but its own finances show a revenue deficit, spiralling interest costs, and liabilities crossing Rs 11.2 lakh crore.

Defence

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

Vaibhav Pant -
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

National Interest

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Shekhar Gupta -
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.

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