Climate Change

How engineered bacteria could clean up oilsands pollution and mining waste

Leave a Comment / ChangeMaker, Climate Change, Pollution / By / June 23, 2021

Picture Credit: A tailings pond at an oilsands facility near Fort McMurray, Alta., in July 2012. The estimated cost of reclaiming oilsands mines is almost $31 billion. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh Rampant industrialization has caused our planet to warm at an unprecedented rate. Glaciers are melting away and sea levels are rising. Droughts last longer and are more devastating. …

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IKEA, Rockefeller foundations partner over $1 bn global platform to fight climate change

Leave a Comment / ChangeMaker, Climate Change, Global Warming / By / June 22, 2021

The IKEA Foundation and The Rockefeller Foundation have partnered to form a $1 billion global platform to fight climate change.  The platform seeks to empower 1 billion people by catalysing investments in distributed renewable energy (DRE), the foundations said in a joint statement.  DRE is a term used when electricity is generated from sources such …

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Maldives Builds First-Of-Its Kind Floating Island City To Mitigate Climate Change

Leave a Comment / Climate Change, CSR, CSR Reporting, Environment, Global Warming, Save Earth / By / June 18, 2021

To mitigate the effects of climate change and rising sea levels, the atoll nation of Maldives is building the first-of-its kind floating island city. Designed by Dutch Docklands, the development will feature thousands of waterfront residences and services floating along a flexible, functional grid across a 200-hectare lagoon. Construction is due to start in 2022 and completed …

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Climate change: Tackling increasing lightning strikes

Leave a Comment / Climate Change, CSR, CSR Reporting, Environment, Global Warming / By / June 14, 2021

Odisha has the most lightning activity but West Bengal has the highest lightning density, explains the report. Image courtesy: HT Photo Lightning kills more people than cyclones in India, says the Earth Networks India Lightning Report, 2019. And it could increase as much as 12% with every 1 degree increase in global warming. According to …

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Global warming to increase extreme rainfall, flood risks

Leave a Comment / Climate Change, CSR, Global Warming, Save Earth / By / June 8, 2021

Climate change will continue to cause an increase in the intensity of extreme rainfall that can lead to severe flooding, if urgent action is not taken to limit global temperature rise to well below 2 degrees Celsius, compared to pre-industrial levels, warn experts in a study published on Monday. An international research team including scientists …

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