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PM Modi attends COP 28 in Dubai, meets with world leaders

Prime Minister Narendra Modi met UAE President Mohammed Bin Zayed and UN Secretary General Antonio Gutterus at the COP 28 Summit in Dubai. "Glad to join the COP-28 Summit, a pivotal platform for global climate action…" PM Modi wrote on X sharing a picture of him holding hands with Zayed and Gutterus. This is PM Modi's third appearance at the World Climate Action Summit after his visits to Paris in 2015 and Glasgow in 2021. 
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Updated on Dec 01, 2023 05:34 pm IST

More evacuations as wildfires race through Spain's Tenerife

More people were evacuated from their homes on Saturday morning on the Spanish island of Tenerife as a wildfire raging in the north of the island remained out of control. A blaze broke out earlier this week in a mountainous national park around the Mount Teide volcano, Spain's highest peak, amid hot and dry weather. The flames have so far avoided major tourist areas. 
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Published on Aug 19, 2023 04:56 pm IST

Heatwave claims 68 lives in UP's Ballia; hospitals overwhelmed

A villager mourns as he cremates his relative who died from heat-related illnesses, in Ballia, Uttar Pradesh, Monday, June 19. A scorching heat wave in two of India’s most populous states has overwhelmed hospitals, filled a morgue to capacity, and disrupted power supply, forcing staff to use books to cool patients, as officials investigate the number of deaths. “So many people are dying from the heat that we are not getting a minute’s time to rest. On Sunday, I carried 26 dead bodies,” Jitendra Kumar Yadav, a hearse driver in Deoria town, 110 kilometers (68 miles) from Ballia, told The Associated Press.
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Published on Jun 20, 2023 06:29 pm IST

Climate change: Two-thirds of reef sharks and rays at risk of extinction

This photo, released on January 16, by Simon Fraser University and James Cook University in Canada and Australia respectively, shows a cowtail ray in the sand, “It was a bit surprising just how high the threat level is for these species. Many species that we thought of as common are declining at alarming rates and becoming more difficult to find in some places,” Sherman told AFP. 
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Updated on Jan 18, 2023 05:39 pm IST

Climate change: Last 8 years termed warmest in history

Firefighters during rescue operations at the Fairview wildfire near Hemet, California, on September 8, 2022. The last eight years were the warmest on record even with the cooling influence of a La Nina weather pattern since 2020, the European Union's climate monitoring service reported on January 10, 2023.
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Published on Jan 12, 2023 05:56 pm IST

Photos: Expressions of ecological grief around the world

Herald / Harbinger is a permanent public art installation by Ben Rubin and Jer Thorp. It broadcasts the sounds of the Bow Glacier cracking and breaking 200 km away, to the centre of Calgary, one of Canada’s largest cities, almost in real time. The sounds and imagery shaped by data from a glacial observatory are broadcast through 16 speakers and seven LED arrays.
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Updated on Dec 09, 2022 05:24 pm IST

Photos: Activists target art treasures to draw attention to climate change

Environmental activists from the "Last Generation" (Ultima Generazione) group smear with paint the facade of the prestigious La Scala theatre ahead of the opening performance of the season, in Milan, Italy, on December 7. "We decided to stain La Scala with paint to ask the politicians who will attend the performance tonight to pull their heads out of the sand and intervene to save the population," wrote Last Generation in a statement, as reported by AFP.
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Updated on Dec 08, 2022 08:04 pm IST

PHOTOS: Bangladesh farmers revive unique floating farms

The rafts, where farmers grow radish, cucumber, papaya, bitter gourd and tomato are woven from stems of invasive hyacinths. Amid increasingly extreme monsoon spells, they are proving to be a lifeline for most agricultural families, especially due to the scarcity of dry land.
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Published on Nov 28, 2022 07:07 pm IST

Photos: Pakistan’s chili capital struggles with climate change

A farmer holds hybrid red chili pepper seeds on his palm as he plants saplings, in Kunri, on March 18. Pakistan is ranked fourth in the world for chili production, with 150,000 acres (60,700 hectares) of farms producing 143,000 tonnes annually, Reuters reported. 
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Published on Nov 22, 2022 09:22 pm IST

UN climate change conference-COP27 begins in Egypt | In photos

Participants visit the Sharm El Sheikh International Convention Centre, in Egypt's Red Sea resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh, on November 5.
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Published on Nov 06, 2022 02:07 pm IST

Photos: How climate change is unearthing new histories

In Texas, USA, a mega-drought has revealed 113 million-year-old footprints of an acrocanthosaurus in the dried-up riverbed of the Paluxy River. The massive footprints, ironically situated within the Dinosaur Valley State Park, have not been seen since 2000.
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Published on Sept 23, 2022 07:53 pm IST

Unprecedented flash floods wreak havoc in Pakistan, over 1,000 killed

Unprecedented flash floods caused by historic monsoon rains have washed away roads, crops, infrastructure and bridges, killing at least 1,000 people in recent weeks and affecting more than 33 million, over 15% of the country's 220 million population.
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Published on Aug 30, 2022 09:40 am IST

Britain records highest temperature ever at 40 degrees Celsius

Britain recorded its highest ever temperature of 40C (104F) on Tuesday as a heatwave gripping Europe intensified, scorching fields and damaging airport runways and train tracks.
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Published on Jul 19, 2022 06:10 pm IST

Extreme heat wave sparks wildfires in parts of Europe

A spate of wildfires is scorching parts of Europe amid an unusual heat wave that authorities are linking to climate change, menacing villages and disrupting tourists' holidays. Thousands of firefighters battled more than 20 blazes that raged on Wednesday across Portugal and western Spain.
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Published on Jul 14, 2022 11:49 am IST

Chennai rains: Multiple NDRF teams deployed as incessant showers batter city

A man carries a cooking gas cylinder and wades past a waterlogged street in Chennai as the city witnesses torrential showers for the second time in five days.
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Updated on Nov 12, 2021 09:31 am IST

Photos: In the US, smoke from massive wildfires in the West bring haze to East

The Statue of Liberty sits behind a cloud of haze in New York City on July 20. According to data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, wildfire smoke from the west has arrived in the tri-state area creating decreased visibility and a yellowish haze in many areas.
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Published on Jul 21, 2021 04:02 pm IST

Thousands flee, many missing, scores dead as floodwater breach Dutch defences

Chancellor Angela Merkel plans to visit areas affected by Germany’s worst flooding in decades. She called the floods a catastrophe, and vowed to support those affected through these "difficult and scary times".
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Published on Jul 17, 2021 08:38 pm IST
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