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  • William Glacier as big as 10 football grounds breaks off in Antarctica

    Alerting news has emerged from Antarctica as researchers have released a video, where William Glacier which is as big as 10 football grounds broke into thousand pieces. The research paper has been published in Science Advances Journal reveals that researchers believe that this event is likely to generate strong internal waves triggering internal tsunamis on the ocean surface. According to information received about the incident, it occurred when the team aboard the research ship RRS James Clark Ross of the British Antarctic Survey was taking ocean measurements off the Antarctic Peninsula.

  • Strict regulations imposed again as Delhi’s air turns deadly

    Strict regulations once again have been imposed in view of increasing pollution in Delhi-NCR. Talking about the figures, the AQI recorded yesterday was 407 at 4 pm in the national capital. Due to this instructions have been issued to implement Stage III of the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) on Sunday. Along with this, there will be a complete ban on non-essential construction works in the area.

  • National Pollution Control Day: Objective & Importance

    National Pollution Control Day is celebrated every year on 2 December. The big reason behind celebrating this day is to remember the Bhopal gas tragedy that took place on the night of 2-3 December.

  • COP27: Indian NGO wins Local Adaptation Champions Award at the conference

    On the 12th of November 2022, at the COP27 climate change conference in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, an Indian Pune-based NGO ‘Swayam Shikshan Prayog’ received the Local Adaptation Champions Award organized by the Global Centre on Adaptation. The NGO will receive 15,000 euros as cash, certificate and memento as part of the award.

  • COP27 Day 14, Last Day: Announcement of historic loss and damage fund for climate reparations

    On 20th November 2022, the fourteenth and final day of the COP27 at Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt, the parties to the conference agreed to a historic decision to establish and operationalize a loss and damage fund, particularly for nations most vulnerable to the climate crisis.

  • COP27 Day 13: Parties get closer to consensus on loss & damage but not on phasing out all fossil fuels

    On 19th November 2022, the thirteenth day of the COP27 at Sharm-el-Sheikh, a proposal was put up to set up a fund to benefit countries coping with irreparable damage from the consequences of climate change such as severe storms, floods, droughts and wildfires after plenty of negotiations between the developed and developing countries.

  • COP27 Day 12: EU agrees to loss and damage fund to help poor countries

    18th November 2022, the twelfth day of the COP27 at Sharm-el-Sheikh was supposed to be the last day of the conference. However, due to the disagreements between parties on a number of crucial issues, including funding for loss and damage, the climate summit had to be prolonged in order to allow more time for negotiations.

  • COP27 Day 11: First draft of Cover Decision released

    On 17th November 2022, the eleventh day of the COP27 at Sharm-el-Sheikh, it was Solutions Day at the conference. Hence, the day focused on innovations to amplify climate finance, finance approaches to protect against loss and damages and more.

  • COP27 Day 10: Focus on climate change’s impact on biodiversity

    On 16th November 2022, the tenth day of the COP27 at Sharm-el-Sheikh, it was Biodiversity Day at the conference.

  • COP27 Day 9: India delivers its national statement

    On 15th November 2022, the ninth day of the COP27 at Sharm-el-Sheikh, the themes of the day were ACE (Action for Climate Empowerment) and Civil Society Day, as well as Energy Day.