‘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.
ClimateChange43
Climate Change: The Global Issue Rising global temperatures are fuelling devastating extreme weather events throughout the world. It is therefore important to understand how the climate is changing and what we can do for its adaptation and mitigation. We make efforts to look at the problems of climate change (rise in temperature, heatwaves, urban heat islands, carbon emissions, air pollution) through our research and share our outputs in the form of infographics, reports and research papers.
Check out the latest posts
Do Women Really Make Up 80 Percent of All Climate Migrants?
June 14, 2023 by 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 in its official communication. It has been repeated in the media and by human rights groups. But it stands...
‘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.
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.
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.
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.