Shimla, Nov 27 (IANS) Lahaul-Spiti district, the cold desert of Himachal Pradesh, saw one of the devastating avalanches in 1979 that claimed more than 250 lost lives.
Kolkata, Nov 27 (IANS) Personal or commercial vehicles in West Bengal will be denied fresh pollution renewal certificates if there are any pending dues concerning road tax or traffic penalty to the state government, transport officials said.
Kolkata, Nov 27 (IANS) At a time when the air quality index (AQI) is deteriorating fast in Kolkata, questions are being raised about the limited number of CAAQMS machines, meant for monitoring AQI in different pockets of the city, compared to Mumbai and National Capital Region (NCR).
New Delhi, Nov 27 (IANS) A dense and noxious haze, commonly known as smog, enveloped Delhi on Monday, with the air quality plummeting to the 'severe' category at several monitoring stations across the national capital.
London, Nov 26 (IANS) Increasing extreme weather events, such as heatwaves, droughts, and hurricanes, and associated forest fires and floods caused by global warming may impact our brain function in the future, finds an alarming study.
New Delhi, Nov 26 (IANS) Overall air quality in Delhi continues to be in the "very poor" category with AQI at 375 on Sunday evening, according to data from the System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting And Research (SAFAR).
London, Nov 26 (IANS) A team of researchers have developed a tool to automatically detect methane plumes on Earth from orbit using machine learning with hyperspectral data.
New Delhi, Nov 26 (IANS) With 2023 poised to be the hottest year ever recorded and the UN Secretary-General himself seeing and hearing from scientists how ice loss in Antarctica is accelerating in dangerous ways, 100 plus musicians and dancers from 18 countries come together with the message in a song: the global community demands climate action for a better earth.
New Delhi, Nov 26 (IANS) With the two-week COP28 Climate Summit negotiations in Dubai starting this week, Power Shift Africa has published a report that issues a call for decisive and unprecedented action to combat the escalating climate crisis.
United Nations, Nov 26 (IANS) While nations discuss global warming in the world body’s conference complex at its headquarters, the Gandhi Solar Park on the roof powers their meetings.
