Climate change may reduce rice output in Punjab
CHANDIGARH: While the global climate change is expected to reduce production of rice in Punjab and Haryana, at the same time it is likely...
Ministries, FAO brainstorm national strategy to adapt to climate change
AMMAN — The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) has organised a brainstorming session between stakeholders and several ministries to discuss...
Countries urged to start bargaining over negative emissions
Countries need to start negotiating who will take responsibility for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, two scientists argued in Nature Climate Change on...
In Egypt, A Rising Sea — And Growing Worries About Climate Change's Effects
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Loans for solar systems make power affordable in rural Kenya
NAIVASHA, Kenya, Aug 15 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - It is early evening in Ndabibi village in Naivasha, and there are threatening clouds overhead. Kenneth...
Shell and Exxon face censure over claim gas was 'cleanest fossil fuel'
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Nigeria will surpass Africas renewable energy target by 2020
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With surveys showing the adoption of solar and inverter technologies by Nigerians have increased, experts believe the development could...
Pakistans billion tree tsunami surpasses Bonn challenge commitment
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The Billion Tree Tsunami Afforestation Project in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) has not only successfully achieved but now...
Air pollution linked to cardiovascular disease; air purifiers may lessen impact
Exposure to fine particulate matter via air pollution, led to increases in stress hormones and, in a study of healthy college students in China....
Probiotics help poplar trees clean up contaminated groundwater
Researchers have conducted the first large-scale experiment on a Superfund site using poplar trees fortified with a probiotic -- or natural microbe -- to...
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