Emerging Economies Climate Report 2022
The report reveals that over half of companies in emerging economies have been impacted by extreme weather events over the last 12 months.The report shows that 58% of companies in Africa and South Asia
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10 times hotter in 90 years, says report
Calcutta, Nov. 18: The world is likely to get 10 times hotter in the next 90 years, a report released today by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has said. The report links the rise in temperatures
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Ganjam farmers caught in pincer movement
BERHAMPUR: Recurring natural calamities and lack of irrigation facility have hit cultivation in the district. Around 75 per cent of the population in Ganjam depends on agriculture for livelihood. A sizeable
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Agriculture will bear the brunt
Climate Change Of late, farmer Rinchen of Semtokha is seeing some strange behaviour in her garden. When trees in her garden at this time of the year shed leaves, a few apple trees have flowered again;
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U.N. Panel Finds Climate Change Behind Some Extreme Weather Events
At least some of the weather extremes being seen around the world are consequences of human-induced climate change and can be expected to worsen in coming decades, a United Nations panel reported on Friday.
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With Rainfall and Aid, the Number Facing Starvation in Somalia Drops by Half a Million
The drought-induced famine crisis in Somalia has eased somewhat, United Nations officials said on Friday, with the number of people facing imminent starvation dropping to nearly 250,000 from 750,000 because
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Project to enhance agriculture resilience to climate launched
To handle problems of alternating natural cycles such as rain, drought The National Initiative on Climate Resilient Agriculture (NICRA), a project of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, to
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Roman Era Drought in Southwest USA
There have been periodic droughts in the American southwest for millenia. A new study at the UA's Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research has revealed a previously unknown multi-decade drought period in the second
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Health Cost Of 6 U.S. Climate Disasters: $14 Billion
Deaths and health problems from floods, drought and other U.S. disasters related to climate change cost an estimated $14 billion over the last decade, researchers said on Monday. "When extreme weather
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Mexico Pleads For U.S., China Agreement On Climate
Mexican President Felipe Calderon urged Washington and Beijing on Thursday to agree to curb the release of climate-warming gases to ensure the success of United Nations climate talks in South Africa later
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Vulnerable Islands Urge Climate Deal Before End-2012
A group of island states most vulnerable to global warming have lashed out against rich nations for wanting to delay a new international climate pact until years after the Kyoto Protocol on curbing carbon