Category: Environment

Climate change negotiations lagging by a decade: TERI

By Kushagra Dixit New Delhi, Oct 15 (IANS) While the threshold for the Paris climate change agreement has been achieved,…

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Court orders probe against superstar Mohanlal for ivory possession

Kochi, Oct 15 (IANS) A court near here on Saturday asked the Vigilance Department to conduct a probe against superstar…

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Historic climate pact on greenhouse gases approved

By Vishal Gulati Kigali (Rwanda), Oct 15 (IANS) Over 150 countries struck a landmark deal on Saturday to reduce the…

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Female chimps don’t fight for rank

New York, Oct 15 (IANS) While male chimpanzees actively challenge their superiors to win higher rank, females accept their position…

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Kigali climate pact hailed as historic

By Vishal Gulati Kigali (Rwanda), Oct 15 (IANS) Nearly 200 nations came together to take a historic step in combating…

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197 nations agree to phase out super greenhouse gases

By Vishal Gulati Kigali (Rwanda), Oct 15 (IANS) In a historic step towards realising the Paris Agreement on climate change,…

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Smog alert renewed for Beijing

Beijing, Oct 15 (IANS) China's national observatory on Saturday morning renewed its yellow alert, the third-highest level of warning, for…

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Clear Saturday morning in Delhi

New Delhi, Oct 15 (IANS) It was a clear Saturday morning here with the minimum temperature recorded at 17.5 degrees…

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India, US reach consensus on phasing out super greenhouse gases

By Vishal Gulati Kigali (Rwanda), Oct 14 (IANS) India and the US on Friday reached a consensus over bringing down…

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Phasing out greenhouse gases will send signal to world markets: Kerry

By Vishal Gulati Kigali (Rwanda), Oct 14 (IANS) The adoption of an ambitious hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) phase down amendment could avoid…

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Darjeeling’s toy train service suspended due to landslides

Siliguri, Oct 14 (IANS) Toy train services in the Darjeeling hills were suspended due to landslides caused by heavy rainfall,…

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Sunny Friday in Delhi, Saturday to be similar

New Delhi, Oct 14 (IANS) The national capital experienced a sunny day on Friday with the maximum temperature settling at…

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Close to a deal for phasing out super greenhouse gases: UNEP

By Vishal Gulati Kigali (Rwanda), Oct 14 (IANS) The world is close to striking a deal to phase out super…

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Cookies, ice cream from seaweed extracts to fight climate change

Kolkata, Oct 14 (IANS) Cookies baked from extracts of local seaweed abundant in the Sundarbans mangroves have 17 per cent…

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Comet strike may have triggered ancient warming event

New York, Oct 14 (IANS) A comet struck our home planet a long time ago and it could have triggered…

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Light intensity tremor recorded in Kashmir

Jammu, Oct 14 (IANS) An earthquake measuring 3.3 on the Richter scale was recorded in Bhaderwah town of Jammu on…

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Northeast sees deficient rainfall for second consecutive monsoon

By Sujit Chakraborty Agartala, Oct 14 (IANS) The mountainous northeast of India, comprising eight states, has recorded deficient rainfall for…

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HFC phaseout: India needs to seize the moment on climate change

By Jamshyd Godrej & Frances Beinecke World leaders are gathering in Kigali, Rwanda to reach an agreement on the biggest…

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Clear Friday morning

New Delhi, Oct 14 (IANS) It was a clear Friday morning here with the minimum temperature recorded at 19 degrees…

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Over one million await aid in Haiti

Port-au-Prince, Oct 14 (IANS) Haiti continued its efforts to normalize areas devastated last week by Hurricane Matthew, while more than…

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