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Pakistan's economy on edge of precipice, warns World BankPakistan is facing a critical moment where it must decide whether to continue with policies that have led to high poverty rates and economi...
UN: Climate change to uproot millions, especially in AsiaA staggering 143 million people will likely be uprooted over the next 30 years by rising seas, drought, searing temperatures and other clim...
Accelerating climate change threatens more than 100 million people in Africa: UNWMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas said that last year Africa saw temperatures continue to increase, "accelerating sea-level rise" as wel...
Climate report: Africa's rare glaciers soon to disappearMassive displacement, hunger and increasing climate shocks such droughts and flooding are in the future, and yet the lack of climate data i...
Africa's rare glaciers soon to disappear: Climate report
Over 7 lakh deaths in India per year linked to abnormal temperatures: Lancet studyThe study published on Wednesday found that deaths related to hot temperatures increased in all regions from 2000 to 2019, indicating that ...
View: Global population could peak sooner than we thinkIn most of the world's large countries, fertility rates have fallen below replacement levels in recent years.
- Cooling Earth artificially could be disastrous, warn scientists
London, Nov 15 (IANS) Proposals to counter the effects of global warming by imitating volcanic eruptions could lead to natural disasters in...
ICRISAT adds finger millet as its sixth mandate cropThe ICRISAT gene bank holds nearly 6,000 finger millet germplasm accessions from 24 countries, conserved for use in research and developmen...
Rise in global temperatures may impact monsoon, farm yields: ReportAn expected 2°C rise in the world's average temperatures in the next decades will make India's monsoon highly unpredictable, a report commi...
Global warming will make India's monsoon unpredictable: World BankIndia's monsoon will become highly unpredictable if the world's average temperature rises by 2 degree Celsius in the next two-three decades
- BGI and ICRISAT signs agreement on applied genomics research
The MoU was signed by Dr William D. Dar, Director General of ICRISAT and Dr Gengyun Zhang, Vice President of BGI.
- Global experts: Warming could double food prices
Even if we stopped spewing global warming gases today, the world would face a steady rise in food prices this century.
- Afghanistan, sub-Saharan Africa top food security risks
Afghanistan and nations in sub-Saharan Africa are most at risk from shocks to food supplies such as droughts or floods while Nordic countri...
- Climate-change adaptation to cost $75-90 bn a year: World Bank
Climate-change adaptation is likely to cost developing countries $75-90 bn annually from 2010 to 2050, according to a study released Wednes...
- Australian climate changing, experts say
Australia experienced one of its hottest years on record in 2007, and climate experts have warned that the higher temperatures are likely a...
- Climate change may influence consumers' buying pattern
Growing concerns over environmental issues is already changing consumers' buying pattern in many developed countries and it should not be t...