JAN 2017 |
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Human-Induced Climate Change Worsened 2015 Heatwave in India |
The heat waves that killed nearly 2,500 people in India and 2,000 people in Pakistan in 2015 were exacerbated by human-induced climate change, scientists including those from IIT-Delhi have found.
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Delhi Government Uses New Measures to Fight Air Pollution |
With air pollution likely to once again reach severe limits, Delhi’s deputy chief minister Mr Manish Sisodia has ordered immediate implementation of the six new measures to fight air pollution, including induced-draft air treatment system.
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Karnataka Staring at a Major Drinking Water Crisis as Reservoir Levels Plunge |
The failure of the monsoons in Karnataka for the second consecutive year has, besides driving farmers into despair, plunged the major urban centres-including the capital city Bengaluru-into a major drinking water crisis.
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India to Achieve Climate Change Goal Earlier Than Thought |
The share of non-fossil fuels in India's sources of electricity will increase way beyond the nation's climate change commitments and much earlier than initially thought, according to a five-year energy blueprint brought out by the Central Electricity Authority (CEA).
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App to Drive Garbage Separation in Domlur |
A total of 750 households in Domlur, Karnataka, will get a QR code and be geo-tagged on a central database. Pourakarmikas will record their attendance at every house by scanning the code with a mobile application and rate its level of waste segregation.
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Ghazipur Garbage to be Used for Highway Construction |
Several lakh tonnes of garbage piled up at the Ghazipur landfill site in east Delhi over the years will be cleared by 2018 and used in construction of a national highway.
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Scientists Propose Ways to Measure Great Lakes Water Quality |
A US-Canadian agency is considering additional ways to measure the safety of Great Lakes water for drinking and activities, such as swimming and fishing.
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Climate change will Lead to Uncontrollable Rise in Migration: Study |
Climate change will cause 'uncontrollable' escalation in migration in South Asia. The study by ActionAid, Climate Action Network South Asia and Bread for the World (Brot Fuer Die Welt) cautioned about the devastating and increasing impact of climate change on migration.
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Amazon Oil Spill Impacts Indigenous Villages on Teles Pires River |
Climate change will cause 'uncontrollable' escalation in migration in South Asia. The study by ActionAid, Climate Action Network South Asia and Bread for the World (Brot Fuer Die Welt) cautioned about the devastating and increasing impact of climate change on migration.
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Red Alert in China: Factories Shut, Cars Stopped to Tackle Pollution |
Chinese cities are limiting the number of cars on roads and have temporarily shut down factories to cut down pollution during a national 'red alert' for smog.
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Scientists Discover 163 New Species in Greater Mekong Region: WWF |
A total of 163 new species have been recently discovered in the Greater Mekong region, according to WWF. The discoveries, include a gecko in Laos with pale blue skin and a rare banana species discovered in northern Thailand that is critically endangered because of increasing deforestation.
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Great Barrier Reef Experiences its Worst-Ever Bleaching Event |
Two-thirds of the corals in the northern part of the Great Barrier Reef have died in the reef’s worst-ever bleaching event, according to some latest underwater surveys.
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