Climate Change

Monsoon intensification and localized extreme rainfall events are increasingly overwhelming traditional hazard models in Himalayan and hill regions, causing damage to vernacular and historic buildings. India’s historical buildings were built to last. Temples, forts, mosques and cave complexes were shaped around local climate, available materials and seasonal rhythms. Many have stood for centuries with little …

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ANA Holdings, Japan’s largest airline, and the nation’s space agency are accelerating efforts to use sensors mounted on commercial jets to improve the monitoring of greenhouse gas emissions. Equipment, which has been tested since 2020, is now in operation in a modified section of a regular Boeing 737 operated by ANA, according to a joint …

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A new study shows that microplastics in oceans can distort scientists’ understanding of the carbon cycle. The carbon cycle in our oceans is critical to the balance of life in ocean waters and for reducing carbon in the atmosphere, a significant process to curbing climate change or global warming. The new study shows that when …

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The EU is launching a service to measure the role climate change is playing in extreme weather events like heatwaves and extreme rain, and experts say this could help governments set climate policy, improve financial risk assessments and provide evidence for use in lawsuits. Scientists with the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service told Reuters the service can help governments in weighing …

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What we need is to turn the necessary action on its head There is a chasm between two different ways of dealing with climate change. No, no, let’s not start to argue that it isn’t happening, or it’s not us humans or we don’t need to do anything. Let’s just start from the idea that …

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