The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change states that ‘water and its availability and quality, will be the main pressures on, and issues for, societies and the environment under climate change’. People will feel the impact of climate change most strongly through changes in the distribution of water around the world and its seasonal and annual

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Climate change is like ‘groundhog day’ for poor people suffering floods and droughts year after year as the temperature rises, Helena Christensen has said after visiting communities hit by extreme weather. The supermodel, who is a global ambassador for Oxfam, visited villages in the foothills of the Himalayas to see first hand the effect of

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NEW DELHI – India is making two proposals for the U.N. climate summit in Cancun in hopes of redefining its global image as a constructive negotiator by helping to resolve disputes that have stymied agreement on curbing greenhouse gas emissions. The two proposals, obtained by The Associated Press, address the monitoring of national emissions cuts

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Highlighting concern over melting of Himalayan glaciers, environment minister Jairam Ramesh today suggested expanding sea buckthorn cultivation by tying up with China and Russia as part of mitigating strategies against climate change. Referring to a scientific study which argued that blacksoot of army vehicles was also contributing to the melting of glaciers, the minister said,

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