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With sweltering summers and drier-than-usual monsoons already being experienced worldwide, it's natural to paint a climate change-riddled picture with barren lands and incessant heatwaves. A new study pointed out that this might not represent our future.
A team of students from the Ashoka Institute of Technology and Management, Varanasi have developed a unique glacier flood alarm sensor system to alert people.
According to a new report, the amount of wild fires in India has increased by 158% in the last six years, with over 35,000 incidents. As humans trigger approximately 95% of fires and climate change increases risk by drying lands, the government has not yet developed a national policy or released the full amount of allocated funds to manage fire risk.
Most U.S. states are prepared to fight the climatic events they currently face — whether drought, wildfires, inland flooding, heat or coastal flooding. But few have taken the appropriate steps to combat future threat levels from climate change, a new analysis from Climate Central and ICF international said Wednesday, according to a report by the Weather Channel...
'It looks like that for the regular city, the path of development is you adopt a mitigation plan, you start with an adaptation plan and then you get into putting those plans into practice,' research leader Diana Reckien of Columbia University’s Center for Research on Environmental Decisions said...
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