The Indian Ocean is a climate change hot spot, and warmer sea temperatures are causing cyclones like Nivar and Amphan to intensify rapidly On the night of 25 November, at 11.30pm, cyclone Nivar began its landfall at Puducherry on the Tamil Nadu coast. A severe cyclonic storm (SCS) with wind speeds of 120-30 kmph, according …
Hurricane season in the Atlantic has been particularly bad this year, “pushing the limits of what meteorologists thought was possible,” CBS News succinctly put it. The Atlantic hurricane season, which officially concludes at the end of this month, has spawn as many as 30 tropical storms so far, six more than even the most dire forecast …
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A new study shows that moving to a plant-based diet is critical, but governments have been slow to act. Many of the massive wildfires that have scorched the Amazon this summer and in recent years can be linked to dinner plates in China and other countries around the world. Cattle ranchers have been using illegal burning to tame the rainforest into …
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Integrating AI and machine learning with energy will help speed up the adoption of renewable sources Covid-19 may have overwhelmed us, bringing lives and livelihoods to a standstill but it is not the biggest problem confronting the world. A far greater crisis stares us in the eye threatening the very existence of humankind: Climate change. …
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Absorbing heat and excess carbon, the ocean offers natural protection against the effects of rising greenhouse gas emissions. Global warming means warmer seas, reduced oxygen levels and acidification – all of which threaten marine ecosystems, coastal communities, and this natural buffer. Solutions to some of these problems could lie within the oceans themselves. The ocean …
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