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Part Of Antarctica Suddenly Started Melting At A Rate Of 14 Trillion Gal. A Year

Sometime in 2009, a long-stable, glacier-filled region in Antarctica suddenly began to melt. Fast. A team of scientists with the University of Bristol made the alarming obs...

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Bollywood

‘Women Cannot Be Looked Upon As Inferior’ – Amitabh Bachchan

As crimes against women continue to escalate by the day, superstar Amitabh Bachchan, while talking on the subject, expressed his anguish. He feels the offenders of such cri...

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Environment

Climate Change: India Asks Developed Nations To Finalise Pre-2020 Action Plan

Ahead of the Climate change talks in Paris, Environment minister Prakash Javdekar today called on developed nations to formulate their pre-2020 action and roadmaps. Speakin...

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Environment

Earth Wins Time As Land And Seas Absorb More Carbon

Climate change has intensified more slowly than scientists had expected because the continents and oceans are absorbing more atmospheric carbon dioxide. Half of all the car...

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Health

Vaccine Shots Every Woman Should Take Before & During Pregnancy

Sudden changes in the immune system, heart and lungs make pregnant women more susceptible to serious ailments, and even death. Hence, it is imperative for women to get vacc...

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Environment

A 10,000-Year-Old Ice Shelf in Antarctica Is Disintegrating

What’s left of Antarctica’s Larsen B Ice Shelf, at least 10,000 years old and 27 times the size of Manhattan, is weakening quickly and likely to disintegrate wi...

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Environment

Educating for Sustainable Development

PARIS ? This year marks a turning point for the world, with the international community adopting a new global development strategy in September and negotiating a universal ...

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Environment

Link Between Unseasonal Rains, Disasters & Climate Change: Is India Playing The Ostrich?

Soon after the 7.9 magnitude earthquake in Nepal in end-April, geologists based in Europe asserted that the tragedy was caused by climate change. These experts were of the ...

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Environment

Supporters Of A UN Climate Pact Say It’s An Economic Issue — Not Just a Moral One

It's the Holy Grail of climate change ? reducing fossil-fuel emissions without slashing the growth needed to lift billions of the world's people out of poverty. With the cl...

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Environment

Joint Statement on Climate Change between India and China during Prime Minister’s visit to China

The Government of the Republic of India and the Government of the People's Republic of China (hereinafter referred to as 'the Two Sides') recognize that climate change and ...

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