Livemint: Noted agricultural scientist M S Swaminathan on Friday said the impact of climate change on farm sector would be profound and one degree Celsius rise in temperature could lead to wheat yield losses of around 6 million tonnes per year in India. “Climate change is impacting agriculture in countries like India. For one degree

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Nations: Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) in collaboration with Italian research organisation EV-K2-CNR, has installed another Automatic Weather Station (AWS) near Concordia at Baltoro glacier. The station will continuously record the parameters including precipitation, snow depth, wind speed and direction, temperature, relative humidity, incoming solar radiation (long and short wave) out-going terrestrial radiation (long and short

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  BBC News: In the wake of a recent controversy over the retreat of Himalayan glaciers in which the UN’s climate science body admitted that it was an error to assert that they would disappear by 2035, water availability has emerged as a key issue with even more uncertainty. Receding Himalayan glaciers grabbed headlines because

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Winner-tips.org: If nature and ecology conservation concerns, in their many forms, seem not able to demonstrate an adequately sustainable global response paradigm, perhaps it is not so much for lack of effort or heart. It may be that the core of each problem in each situation has not been lanced, and the right moves simply

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PIB India: Modern automatic weather stations have been set up in the North Eastern-States and Sikkim.They are given at Annexe below.To understand the nature of monsoon pattern in these areas, the government launched a high-priority Programme to address the Science issues of Global and Regional Climate Change with a well equipped state-of-the-art Center for Climate

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Financial Post: The science is now all-but-settled on global warming, convincing new evidence demonstrates, but Al Gore, the IPCC and other global warming doomsayers won’t be celebrating. The new findings point to cosmic rays and the sun – not human activities – as the controller of climate on Earth. The research, published with little fanfare

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Bhutan Today: The Prime Minister, Lyonchhen Jigmi Y Thinley, has issued a dire warning about the impact of Himalayan climate change, saying it could wreck Bhutan’s ambitious plans to be a world leader in hydropower. However, the country is powerless to prevent changes caused by shifting weather patterns that threaten regional water supplies and plans

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