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Imperialism today needs to be conceptualised in terms of gratis (one-way transfer of wealth to western nations) plus the threats that it poses to human life and the planet itself  

A new research, Glacio-hydrology of the Himalaya-Karakoram, released in the journal SCIENCE on Thursday, emphasises that total glacier melt and seasonality of flow are projected to increase until the 2050s

The SDGs, constituted through an unprecedented consultative process, have 17 goals and 169 related targets to be achieved by 2030.

The remote, 19.6 million-acre refuge is home to polar bears, caribou, snowy owls and other wildlife, including migrating birds from six continents.

The Antarctic Treaty, an unprecedented international agreement to govern the continent together entered into force in 1961 and currently has 54 parties.

The team is using a self-propelled commercial Wave Glider decked out with scientific instruments that can study the ocean from its surface.

Tropical cyclones have caused 28.6% of mortalities in the last five decades, second only to floods responsible for maximum human deaths

Scientists say the seas have absorbed 90% of all the warming that has taken place in the past 50 years.

The more ambitions targets were hastily agreed last week after Germany's top court ruled that existing measures placed too much of the burden for curbing global warming on younger people.

A study published in Geophysical Research Letters of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) says that due to the significant melting of glaciers because of global temperature rise, our planet’s axis of rotation has been moving more than usual since the 1990s.

He said that the United States accounts for less than 15 per cent of carbon emissions while the rest of the world accounts for 85 per cent.

"Unless we all work together, no solution can be found. Our mother earth is teaching us a lesson in universal responsibility."

Don’t worry, your prized red roses aren’t going to turn turquoise overnight, but an increase in UV radiation due to the ozone layer deteriorating over the past decades has caused flowers all over the globe to change. A 2020 study led by Clemson University scientists determined that the UV pigmentation in flowers has increased over […]

Climatic changes such as drought fuel herder–farmer conflicts, as they compete with one another for fewer resources.

To explore Timelapse in Google Earth, users can go to g.co/Timelapse or open Google Earth and click on the ship's wheel to find Timelapse in storytelling platform, Voyager.

The researchers noted that more rainfall is not necessarily a good thing for the farming sector in India and its neighbouring countries.

Under various scenarios, the researchers looked at how a total of 19 climatic factors will affect the cultivation of five distinct speciality coffee types in the fu.ture

Javadekar made the remarks during a speech after a meeting with French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian at the French Embassy.

Digital Scientists are building a digital twin of the Earth to fight climate change. Read more about the concept here….

South Asia is home to the largest number of children -- more than 155 million -- living in areas of high or extremely high water vulnerability.