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Scientists use Indian Ocean Earthquake Sound to Tell How Fast it is Warming
19 Sep 2020
Scientists assessed a 3,000-km-long section in equatorial East Indian Ocean and found temperature fluctuations between 2005 and 2016, with a decadal warming trend that "substantially exceeds previous…
Sandipan Talukdar
Climate Study of Past 66 Million Years Reveals Earth’s Temperature Rise as Unprecedented
15 Sep 2020
The study concludes that this human made climate change is far beyond the natural changes that are triggered by Earth’s changing orbit.
Sandipan Talukdar
COVID-19 Lockdown Didn’t Help Much in Reducing Carbon Emission: UN Report
11 Sep 2020
The report found that due to lockdowns, the daily level emissions of greenhouse gases went down by 17% in comparison to 2019 in the month of April. But, as the world came back to work, emissions rose…
Sandipan Talukdar
WWF Report Says Human Activity has Resulted in 68% Decline in Species Population Between 1970 and 2016
11 Sep 2020
Species diversity is a crucial indicator of the health of planet Earth, and the drastic decline in biodiversity and species is indicative of the alarming condition of a fundamentally broken…
Mohd. Imran Khan
47 Potentially Dangerous Glacial Lakes Identified in 3 River Basins That Run Through Bihar
09 Sep 2020
The disappearance of the glaciers will affect river channel flow dynamics in downstream areas and impact human settlements, including Bihar, in the long run, say experts.
Amey Tirodkar
'Aarey' to be Declared a Forest but No Clarity on Remaining Land
03 Sep 2020
While activists have celebrated the move, there is a need for greater clarity about the exact forest zone.
Sandipan Talukdar
Climate Change: Depletion of Greenland’s Ice-Sheet Reaches the Point of No Return
21 Aug 2020
Since 2000, Greenland has been losing more than 500 gigatons of ice each year on an average. In the 1980s and the 1990s, lost ice hovered around the 450 gigaton mark every year.
Sudhansu Mohanty
Mother Nature and the Ides of a Pandemic
12 Aug 2020
‘...environmental violations aside, consider the buccaneering desecrations of nature that the EIA presages. It is these that provide a neat segue into the lessons we have not learned from the COVID-…
PARI Team
PARI Wins Prem Bhatia Journalism Award
01 Aug 2020
It's been given to “PARI collectively for its army of field reporters, volunteers and its dedicated team…”
Sandipan Talukdar
Siberian Heat Wave: A Living Example of Man-Made Climate Change
22 Jul 2020
The unusually high temperature in the Siberian region between January and June 2020 led to a cascade of other disasters, both natural and man-made, forcing the Russian President to declare a state of…