Global collaboration is required at an unparalleled scale to curb emissions and support vulnerable communities. By Sreerekha Pillai The report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) confirms what we have known all along—the dynamics of climate are being rewritten irrevocably. With the internationally agreed threshold of 1.5°C perilously close to becoming a reality, … Read more
By Robert PreidtHealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, July 8, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Climate change has already become deadly enough to cause 5 million extra deaths worldwide each year, researchers report. “This is the first study to get a global overview of mortality due to non-optimal temperature conditions between 2000 and 2019, the hottest period since the … Read more
FRIDAY, Feb. 5, 2021 (HealthDay News) — It’s a link few might have considered, but a new study indicates that climate change may have prompted the COVID-19 pandemic. Rising temperatures caused by greenhouse emissions have boosted the growth of bat-friendly forest habitat in China’s southern province of Yunnan and neighboring areas, making the region … Read more
New Delhi: The ruling BJP on Thursday dubbed the support of some foreign celebrities to the protesting farmers as an attempt to destabilise the country and said that the Indian democracy doesn’t need foreign certificate. Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg and several people from the international community had come out in support of the farmers … Read more
Washington: The incoming Biden administration has a real window to nurture a natural partnership with India, the Asia Society has said, urging the President-elect to expand the scope of the bilateral relationship to elevate health, digital, and climate cooperation. Noting that Joe Biden has an opportunity to consolidate and accelerate the relationship by creating a … Read more
Licypriya Kangujam, who is one of the youngest climate change activists in the world, staged a protest outside the Rashtrapati Bhavan on Friday in her bid to have cleaner and better air. Licypriya Kangujam outside the Rashtrapati Bhavan with her placard. (ANI photo) Licypriya Kangujam, who is one of the youngest climate change activists in … Read more
By Alan Mozes HealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, Aug. 11, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Global warming may ultimately rain on everyone’s parade, but new research suggests that major thunderstorms are already wreaking some havoc on the respiratory health of seniors. That’s because atmospheric changes that precede storms increase the risk that older people with asthma … Read more