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Climate Change
New European Parliament must act on climate change as a systemic threat
Europe’s first comprehensive climate risk assessment, published in May, sent a clear and unequivocal message: climate risks facing Europe have reached a critical level and urgently require decisive actions from European policymakers.
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Climate Change Could Make Fungi More Dangerous To Humans
Public health officials have long been concerned that rising temperatures on Earth could trigger fungi to become more harmful to people.
Oh, sure, some people get ringworm or nail infections, and some women repeatedly get yeast…
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Only 60% of Australians accept climate disruption is human-caused, global poll finds
Australians are among the most sceptical around the world that climate disruption is being caused by humans and that the costs of tackling it will be less than that of its impacts, according to polling across 26 countries.
Just 60% of…
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Climate change: Volcanic eruption of heatwaves
This summer has seen among the longest prolonged heatwave periods in India’s meteorological history. Soaring temperatures of 45-50°C - some places reported over 50°C - continued for over a month in May and June in the Northwest region.…
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Climate change and its implications
Climate change represents one of the most pressing challenges of our time, with far-reaching implications for the environment, economies, and societies around the globe. At its core, climate change refers to long-term shifts in global or…
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Climate change adding 50 to 80 warmer nights each year to Indian summers, study finds
There have been at least 50 to 80 more nights with temperatures higher than 25 degrees Celsius added every year during summers since 2018 in India because of climate change.
A new report released on 21 June by Climate Central and Climate…
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UN Survey Shows 4 In 5 People Want More Action Against Climate Change
Four in every five people want their country to strengthen its commitments to addressing climate change, according to a global poll of 75,000 participants published on Thursday.
The survey by the UN Development Program, Oxford University…
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Climate change is helping the H5N1 bird flu virus spread and evolve
The spread of the highly pathogenic avian influenza virus H5N1 among animals is unprecedented having been found on all continents — except Oceania — with the United Nations calling it “a global zoonotic animal pandemic.”
H5N1 is known to…
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AFMC conducts conference on climate change & environment
The department of community medicine at AFMC, Pune, under the aegis of Director General Armed Forces Medical Services (DGAFMS), conducted a three-day armed forces conference on climate change and environmental susceptibility from June…
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US, India to launch NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar to combat climate change: White House
India and the United States (US) are preparing to jointly launch NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar to combat climate change and other global challenges, announced the White House as National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan is on a two-day…
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