After Delhi, air pollution menace is now slowly engulfing West Bengal too. According to a recent report by IQAir, a Switzerland-based climate group, Delhi, Kolkata and Mumbai are among the top ten most polluted cities of the world. Delhi topped the list with AQI at 556, Kolkata and Mumbai recorded an …
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Flash flood fury in Uttarakhand, a classic example of Climate Change
Extreme weather events are not new to the country; however, the increasing frequency of these events are. All thanks to climate change, which has been altering weather patterns across India. Latest example is the torrential rains in Uttarakhand earlier this week. The weather remains calm over Uttarakhand post the retreat …
Read More »Central Banks fueling Climate crisis, including RBI: New Report
Central banks can play a key role in mobilizing capital away from fossil fuels. Many of the world’s central banks have signed up to the Network for Greening the Financial System, which recognises the threat that climate change poses to financial stability, and recommends taking action to reduce support for …
Read More »Climate change made floods like disaster in western Europe up to 9 times
Climate change has made extreme rainfall events like those that led to last month’s devastating floods in Germany, Belgium and neighbouring countries between 1.2 and 9 times more likely to happen, according to a rapid attribution study by an international team of climate scientists, which also found that such downpours …
Read More »Climate change is exposing millions of people to high risk floods
A New research published recently in Nature used direct satellite observations of floods, rather than the standard modeled estimates, to reveal that the proportion of population exposed to floods has grown by 24% globally since the turn of the century – ten times higher than scientists previously thought – due …
Read More »Climate change fueling Monsoon mayhem in India, extreme weather events to rise further
India’s western coastal states of Maharashtra and Goa along with the Himalayan region of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand have witnessed a spate of extreme weather events. Hundreds of people have lost their lives owing to deadly floods, cloud bursts and landslides. Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated since …
Read More »Rings of Fire: athletes warn of heat risk during Tokyo Games
Dr. Seema Javed Heat and humidity levels hit extreme levels this week as Tokyo Olympics start today. The Japan’s environment agency has issued a Heat Stroke Alerts. Data suggests that the Wet Bulb Globe Temperature – a measure combining heat and humidity, used by organisers to assess safety – hit …
Read More »Lightning, an increasing threat due to Climate Change
Seema Javed Lightning strikes killed at least 74 people across Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, and Madhya Pradesh on July 11, 2021. Of these, 41 were reported from Uttar Pradesh, with Allahabad topping the chart with a death toll of 16. In Jaipur, 11 tourists lost their lives when lightning struck them …
Read More »Courage needed to overcome pandemic and address climate change
Seema Javed In 2021, the international community will need to show courage and ambition in order to overcome the great challenges of today: from recovering from the pandemic to addressing climate change, from supporting innovation to overcoming poverty and inequality. On July 9 and 10 Third G20 Finance Ministers and …
Read More »North America heatwave almost impossible without climate change
Dr. Seema Javed Last week’s record-breaking heatwave in parts of the US and Canada would have been virtually impossible without the influence of human-caused climate change, according to a rapid attribution analysis by an international team of leading climate scientists. Climate change, caused by greenhouse gas emissions, made the heatwave …
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