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Study: climate change warming Asian waters, altering monsoon
2016-07-02 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Each year as temperatures rise across India, farmers look to the sky and pray for rain. The all-important monsoon forecast becomes a national priority, with more than 70 percent of India's 1.25 billion citizens engaged in agriculture and relying on weather predictions to decide when they will sow their seeds and harvest their crops. But getting the forecast right remains a challenge, thanks to the complex -- and still poorly understood -- ways in which South Asia's monsoon rains are influenced...
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Bird migration changing due to climate change, development at Indian coasts
2016-07-02 11:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Zee News: According to experts, developmental activities in coastal wetlands of India and climate change are the two main factors behind change in arrival patterns of migratory birds. The important coastal wetlands along the east coast of India are Gulf of Mannar, Point Calimere, Pulicat, and Chilika. On the east coast, due to the degradation of wetlands habitats, populations of various waterbird species are dwindling in their traditional wintering sites, said S. Balachandran, deputy director, Bombay...
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Climate Change: India Likely To Bring Umbrella Legislation
2016-07-02 11:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InSerbia: The Narendra Modi government in India plans to bring an umbrella legislation on climate change before ratifying the Paris climate agreement, a legacy that US President Barrack Obama wants to leave before the end of his tenure. During Prime Minister Modis visit to Washington earlier in June, India and the US issued a joint statement, saying that the two countries would try to achieve shared goal of enabling entry into force of the Paris Agreement as soon as possible. According to sources close...
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Ghana: Let's go for stringent measures to address Climate Change - Scientist
2016-07-02 11:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
GNA: World leaders, especially African leaders, have been urged to put in place stringent and effective climate change policies with tangible ambitions to deal with the increasing impact of the phenomenon on their people. A Ghanaian Scientist, Mr. Joris Wartemberg, who was delivering a lecture, said such policies must be appropriate for their respective jurisdictions. The lecture was on the revised edition of his book titled, The Science of Biblical Creation. It was held at the African Institute...
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India: Frequency of cloudburst-like incidents is increasing due to climate change: Prakash Javadekar
2016-07-02 10:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
First Post: Expressing grief over the loss of lives in Uttarakhand's Pithoragarh and Chamoli districts, where 14 people died following a cloudbrust, he said the government is working on a plan of action to tackle such natural eventualities. "Due to heavy rains, there was loss of lives (in Uttarakhand). This is very unfortunate. The frequency of such incidents is increasing because of climate change. The government has been making preparations to tackle such natural eventualities," Javadekar said. He said...
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