Wellington school children strike for climate change action outside parliament. The voices of young people will be front and centre this Friday, when students around the country gather in their thousands for the next wave of School Strike 4 Climate. But the older generation is throwing their support behind the young change makers. Students will …
The Great Green Wall initiative aims to restore an 8,000km strip of savanna along the southern edge of the Sahara desert. 100 million hectares of land are to be restored, 10 million jobs created and 250 megatonnes of carbon sequestered. The initiative has just received a funding boost from donors including France and the World …
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The study states about 80% of Maharashtra’s districts are expected to witness a rise in annual mean temperature (AMT) between 2033 and 2050. This will, in turn, affect water security and agro-climatic conditions, leading to diminished yields of sugarcane, pearl millet, wheat, rice and jowar among other crops. A combination of higher temperatures and increase …
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A new approach to making jet fuel from food waste has the potential to massively reduce carbon emissions from flying, scientists say. Currently, most of the food scraps that are used for energy around the world are converted into methane gas. But researchers in the US have found a way of turning this waste into …
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An increase in extreme weather events such as floods, droughts and cyclones risk souring debt worth more than Rs 6.19 lakh crore ($84 billion) at India’s biggest financial institutions. That’s according to leading nonprofit environmental disclosure platform CDP. State Bank of India NSE, the country’s largest lender, HDFC Bank, IndusInd Bank and Axis Bank NSE are among the institutions that …
