Climate change scientists and organisations responding to natural disasters have a new tool to help them visualise weather and geography across Asia. A web-based geospatial information platform called Servir has established a new centre in Nepal to gather satellite images and other data. NASA administrator Charles F. Bolden launched the service at a function organised

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NEW DELHI: Emerging market economies, including India and China, are more optimistic than the rest of the world in terms of concern, personal commitment and the belief that climate change can be stopped, a survey by HSBC Holdings Plc said. According to HSBC’s “Climate Confidence Monitor”, one in three people in Vietnam, India and China

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