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• State of the Climate in Asia 2024

  <p>The World Meteorological Organization&rsquo;s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing

  • 23/06/2025

  • World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
  • • Asia
    • Global Warming
    • Heat Waves
    • Sea Level Rise
    • Indian Ocean
    • Glacial Melt
    • Floods
    • Landslides
    • Nepal
    • Climate Change

• Crackers fail to meet requisite norms

  While the Delhi Government may boast that pollution levels have fallen during Diwali over the past few years, the firecracker industry continues to openly flout the noise pollution standards.

  • 20/12/2002

  • Hindu (New Delhi)
  • • Environment

• We took WTO battle to Western camp: Jaitley

  At Cancun, the developing countries successfully took the battle to the Western camp. Perhaps for the first time it became clear that negotiations related to the World Trade Organisation would no

  • 20/12/2002

  • Hindu (New Delhi)
  • • Environment

• Unregulated polluted water turning into health hazard

  Thanks to the disposal of sewerage and untreated water by the industrial and residential areas, the Gurgaon canal in the district, constructed mainly for irrigation purpose, has become highly

  • 20/12/2002

  • Tribune (New Delhi)
  • • Environment

• Seminar on devp of eco-tourism

  The Department of Business Administration, in association with the Department of Energy of Tezpur University, is organizing a two-day national seminar on 'Sustainable Development of Eco-tourism in

  • 13/12/2002

  • Sentinel (Guwahati)
  • • Environment

• Relentless deluge

  This year's flood has kicked off the debate whether Orissa should have a second dam over the Mahanadi. As usual, the Mahanadi river system has inflicted maximum damage to a large majority of the

  • 14/12/2002

  • Deccan Herald (Bangalore)
  • • Environment

• Costs of Kyoto

  The Kyoto Protocol's pledge to pollute the environment to a lesser extent than other countries means falling behind in terms of economic growth. Scientists have failed to prove that the greenhouse

  • 21/12/2002

  • Statesman (New Delhi)
  • • Environment

• Avalanche kills 9 ITBP climbers

  Celebrations turned into mourning at the 24th Battalion Headquarters of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police at Mirthi last evening as all nine members of an ITBP mountaineering team were killed in an

  • 22/12/2002

  • Indian Express (New Delhi)
  • • Environment

• Sound meters to check pollution this festive season

  Using loudspeakers between 10 pm and 6 am can land you in jail for up to 10 five years. Under a new notification, issued recently, the Delhi police now has the power to prosecute violators of the

  • 21/12/2002

  • • Environment

• Corruption alleged in drought relief works

  Adivasi Mukti Sangathan, an activist group working for the cause of tribals in the western parts of Madhya Pradesh, has alleged massive corruption in drought relief works in Badwani district and

  • 21/12/2002

  • Hindu (New Delhi)
  • • Environment

• Japan hit by quake, typhoon

  Japan was hit by both a typhoon and an earthquake, with the quake causing at least seven injuries and minor damage in Tokyo and the typhoon dumping heavy rains and blacking out thousands of homes in

  • 21/12/2002

  • Hindu (New Delhi)
  • • Environment