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India leads the way in combating climate change: Survey

India is leading the way in efforts to combat the challenges of global warming while skeptical Americans still question climate change, according to a new global survey by ...

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Environment

FAO report shows how climate change is impacting small fishers

Outlook for fisheries and aquaculture better than for other food sectors, but UN agency calls for adaptation and mitigation to secure future food requirements Climate chang...

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Hollywood

Why you're seeing more women and people of color Google Doodles

When Google executive Megan Smith heard about a report in March analyzing a lack of diversity in Google Doodles, her reaction was not what you might expect. An accounting o...

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Environment

CO2 emissions in ASEAN from transport sector will double by 2050, warns energy agency

If the International Energy Agency (IEA) is to be believed, the amount of carbon emissions from transport in ASEAN nations will double by 2050. At the same time, carbon emi...

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Hollywood

Box Office: Girl Power! Women-led Features Dominate With, The Fault In Our Stars Taking #1, Maleficent #2

Walk into a theater over the weekend and you were likely to have seen it populated by the female persuasion. On the heels of Maleficent‘s $70 million opening and Ange...

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Health

Mosquito-borne virus shows polio-like symptoms

Two months after the country earned its polio-free tag, a mosquito has emerged as a fresh concern. Mosquito-borne West Nile virus has been found to be causing acute flaccid...

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Sustainable Development

Uttarakhand pushes for more hydropower projects

Lakhwar-Vyasi project cleared by Centre this year is a violation of Supreme Court order, says expert The Uttarakhand government is pushing for more hydropower projects in t...

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Health

Will global polio eradication miss yet another deadline?

When the world embarked on polio eradication 26 years back, the goal was to complete that task by the year 2000. That target was not met, nor did the two deadlines set afte...

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Sustainable Development

Disadvantaged groups have little access to public goods, says India exclusion report

Most severely and consistently excluded groups are women, Adivasis, Muslims and the disabled; report confirms A recent report by a Delhi NGO undermines government claims on...

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Environment

Global Warming Casts Shadow On Madhya Pradesh Climate

More than half of Madhya Pradesh faces threat of adverse weather conditions on account of global warming and climate change, a new study has revealed. With an aim to predic...

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