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‘How’s the Air?’ Using AI to Track Coal Train Dust

This article is written by Emma Foehringer Merchant is a journalist who covers climate change, energy, and the environment.

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Do Women Really Make Up 80 Percent of All Climate Migrants?

June 14, 2023 by Disha Shetty [https://undark.org/undark-author/disha-shetty/] It is an alarming and evocative statistic: An estimated 80 percent of climate migrants are women. The figure has been used by the United Nations [https://www.ohchr.org/en/stories/2022/07/climate-change-exacerbates-violence-against-women-and-girls#:~:text=It%20is%20estimated%20that%

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‘Statistically impossible’ heat extremes are here – we identified the regions most at risk

“how long do we have to wait until we experience another similarly intense event?”. This is a challenging question but, fortunately, there is a branch of statistics, called extreme value theory, that provides ways in which we can answer that exact question using past events.

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Deadly heatwaves threaten to reverse India’s progress on poverty and inequality – new research

After 2022 was designated the hottest in 122 years, extreme heat has appeared early again this year with over 60% of India recording above-normal maximum temperatures for April, according to the country’s Meteorological Department.

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Your ‘Recycled’ Grocery Bag Might Not Have Been Recycled

While companies can enlist a third-party to certify their use of recycled content, most certifiers take a bird’s-eye view, tracking the materials across a range of products and factories. As a result, an item with a “recycled content” label might be completely devoid of recycled content.

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Climate Change in South Asia

High levels of heat stress would certainly be experienced by residents of South Asia, where the population is expected to increase from 1.5 billion to 2 billion by 2050.

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Changing Climate and Countries Performance

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COP27: one big breakthrough but ultimately an inadequate response to the climate crisis

By any estimation, the big breakthrough of COP27 was the agreement to establish a fund for loss and damage. This would involve wealthy nations compensating developing states for the effects of climate change, especially droughts, floods, cyclones and other disasters.

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Impacts of Floods in South & South East Asia

Human interference along with climate change causes a lot of human and financial losses every year following the occurrence of floods. Flood hazards and impacts are projected to increase in many regions around the globe.

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Pakistan floods: what role did climate change play?

Pakistan is experiencing the most devastating and widespread floods in its history, with the country’s climate minister saying waters have reached across a third of the nation. The growing tally of impacts is dire. More than 1,100 people have been killed, a million homes have been destroyed.

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The problem of increasing air pollution, climate change, and human health in India

Land Use Land Cover (LULC) is also an important component of climate change. The rapid expansion of urban areas has led to the loss of vegetation, arable land, and fallow land, thereby contributing to climate change.

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Mental Health in context of Climate Change

In a recent policy brief by the World Health Organization, there is strong urge to integrate climate change into policies and programs related to mental heath.