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Dr. Seema Javed The Senate passed a historic first-ever US climate bill that puts the US on a path to achieve 2/3 of its 2030 NDC. It’s not perfect, but it’s pretty darn great and a much needed boost heading into climate diplomacy season and US midterm elections. The House …

Dr.Seema Javed Today, the Vatican has called for an international treaty that tackles the climate crisis at its source: fossil fuels. The call builds on the Vatican’s calls for fossil fuel divestment and new policies for investments in “a more just and sustainable world”. This endorsement reinforces the global momentum …

Dr. Seema Javed Ever since Monsoon has picked up pace, hilly states of Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand have been recording incidences of cloudbursts, flash flooding and landslides. The most recent one is the cloudburst near the holy cave shrine of Amarnath, which has left several people dead …

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 …

After several years of worsening climate around the world due to global warming a clear pattern of extreme unliveable heat, glacier melts, heavy rain& floods, increasing frequency of  storms & cyclones, drought and wildfires, locusts attacks , rising sea levels etc climate crisis has emerged. The latest report of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate …

Today, the 54th Session of the IPCC accepted the work of the much anticipated Summary for Policymakers (SPM) of the Working Group I contribution to the Sixth Assessment Cycle(AR6), entitled Climate Change 2021: the Physical Science Basis. The Working Group I (AR6 WGI) report – finalised and approved by 234 …

The frequency, duration and intensity of cyclones in the Arabian Sea have increased significantly, while there has been a slight decrease in their frequency in the Bay of Bengal according to a new study by scientists at Pune’s Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology. The paper claims that the frequency of …

1 The first direct image of a Black Hole captured by the event Horizon Telescope, the region behind no light can pass. In a distant galaxy, M 87 roughly 6.5 billion solar masses. Its in the center of the Milkey way.   2 Protesters gathered during the Climate change protests …