Sustainable blue economy vital for small countries and coastal populations
New York: With the livelihoods of about 40 per cent of the world’s population living at or near a coast, the second day of the UN Ocean Conference underway in …
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Here’s what happens if the world loses its rainforests
War in Europe, economic turmoil and the impacts of COVID-19 have dominated global headlines in 2022. But climate change, biodiversity and nature loss, and pollution and waste – our triple planetary …
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Safe in the sun? UN launches new app to help beat skin cancer
Scientific evidence shows that overexposure to UV radiation is the major cause of skin cancer. To help people protect themselves adequately, a consortium of UN agencies on Tuesday, launched an …
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A heat warning has been issued in Ontario by Environment Canada
Toronto: A heat warning remains in effect on Wednesday for southern and parts of northern Ontario, Environment Canada has said. The maximum temperatures will be near 30 degrees on Wednesday but …
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Manitoba Marathon canceled due to heat warning, two players hospitalized
Winnipeg/CMEDIA: Canada’s Manitoba Marathon was canceled on Sunday by the organizers after two participants were hospitalized due to the sweltering heat and an extreme heat wave. This decision was made jointly by …
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Hundreds of Nepean homes, thousands more in eastern Ontario hit by power outages
Ottawa/CMEDIA: Power outage caused by a “loss of supply” from the provincial grid affecting hundreds of households in Nepean and thousands more in eastern Ontario on Saturday with officials saying it isn’t …
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‘Surprise’ early heatwave in Europe, harbinger of things to come
New York: Sweltering conditions in Europe have come earlier than expected this year but the bad news is, they’re the shape of things to come. According to the World Meteorological …
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World has ‘gambled on fossil fuels and lost’, warns Guterres
New York: The current global economic paradigm of infinite growth based on using up a finite amount of resources, such as fossil fuels, will only deliver a “permanent triple whammy …
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Uprooting of trees in Delhi has been caused by excessive concretization : WWF Official
IBNS/On the occasion of World Environment Day recently, World Wide Fund for Nature’s (WWF’s) Neha Raghav took school children of classes 6-8 on a virtual nature trail to spread the love and …
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How ‘viral dark matter’ may help mitigate climate change
A deep dive into the 5,500 marine RNA virus species scientists recently identified has found that several may help drive carbon absorbed from the atmosphere to permanent storage on the ocean floor. …
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