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Sunderbans a land in limbo

Documentary films on climate change

Astray?

From the Gir National Park in Gujarat to the Sunderbans in West Bengal, lions and tigers are ranging far beyond territories administered by the …

Rising sea levels prompt South Florida to demand statehood

The rising levels threaten to submerge living spaces, national parks and a nuclear reactor site

Climate-induced migration challenge

Study commissioned by UK government warns migration may spin out of control and cause more misery if not managed properly

The hockey-stick curve

The problem of and solutions to climate change. The imperatives of transition on the eve of the Bali meet

Rising sea levels and tidal erosion eating up Sunderbans

Rising sea levels are real. A trip to the Sunderbans, in the Bay of Bengal, shows how devastating it can be in tandem with insidious tidal erosion.…

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Planners are yet to recognize the Sunderbans is increasingly vulnerable to rising sea level and intense cyclones. Despite the early warning, it …

Science And Technology - Briefs

28 years of Earth’s surface changes on Google

Watch a city expand or a glacier shrink through a series of satellite images; see the altering landscape at four spots in India  

Science and Technology - Briefs

Climate change meet in Uganda by Commonwealth Heads yield no results

Extreme weather events of 2013 a result of human influences: WMO

Typhoon Haiyan, heatwave in Australia, frigid polar air in parts of Europe and the US are a few events mentioned in the World Meteorological …

Future shock

As the world continues to pump greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, the global temperatures could rise by 3°C by mid-century, says a soon-to-…