Half the world faced an extra month of extreme heat due to climate change: Study | – The Times of India
Half the world faced an extra month of extreme heat due to climate change: Study (Photo: AFP) Half the global population endured an additional month of extreme heat over the past year because of manmade climate change, a new study found Friday.The findings underscore how the continued burning of fossil fuels is harming health and well-being More...
Severe floods threaten historic Romanian salt mine | – The Times of India
Severe floods threaten historic Romanian salt mine (Photo: AFP) Romanian authorities scrambled Friday to save a salt mine in the northern village of Praid from further damage after heavy rains worsened More...
Switzerland monitoring for flood risk after huge glacier collapse | – The Times of India
Switzerland monitoring for flood risk after huge glacier collapse (Photo: AFP) Swiss authorities were on Thursday monitoring for possible flood risk in a southern valley, following a massive glacier More...
UK to build new reservoirs as climate change sparks drought fears | – The Times of India
UK to build new reservoirs as climate change sparks drought fears The UK government said Wednesday it will step in to fast-track the building of two new reservoirs, amid drought fears as England More...
UN says strong chance average warming will top 1.5 degrees Celsius in next 4 years – The Times of India
UN says strong chance average warming will top 1.5 degrees Celsius in next 4 years (Photo: AFP) The United Nations warned on Wednesday that there is a 70 per cent chance that average warming from More...
Hawaii’s governor signs new hotel tax legislation to help cope with climate change – Times of India
Hawaii Governor Josh Green signs legislation that raises the state’s tax on hotel rooms and other short-term accommodations to raise money to help the islands cope with climate change (Image credit: More...
Nuclear option: Indonesia seeks to grow energy, cut emissions | – The Times of India
Nuclear option: Indonesia seeks to grow energy, cut emissions (Photo: AFP) Goal of a first small modular reactor by 2032.Its first experiment with nuclear energy dates to February 1965, when then-president More...
Along Ghana’s vanishing coast, climate change swallows history, homes – The Times of India
Ghana’s coast vanishes under rising tides (Image credit: AFP) The salty wind blows across the ruins of Ghana’s Fort Prinzenstein, where thick walls once held thousands of enslaved Africans More...
Ancient town and its manuscripts face ravages of the Sahara – Times of India
OUALATA: From his roof, Sidi Mohamed Lemine Sidiya scans the mediaeval town of Oualata, a treasure that is disappearing under the sands of the Mauritanian desert.“It’s a magnificent, More...
The scars from Hurricane Helene are healing slowly in this Appalachian tourist town | – The Times of India
CHIMNEY ROCK VILLAGE: The brightly colored sign along the S-curve mountain road beckons visitors to the Gemstone Mine, the “#1 ATTRACTION IN CHIMNEY ROCK VILLAGE!” But another sign, on More...