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854With Floods And Droughts, Millions At The Mercy Of The Rains
Nearly a thousand people have been killed by floods in Nepal, Bihar, West Bengal and Assam in India, and in Bangladesh. Almost...
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G20 Stalls On Fossil Fuel Subsidies
As G20 countries met for the group’s annual summit in Osaka, the dirty secret was that the world’s leading economies were failing...
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Nearly A Third Of India’s Land Needs Restoration
India has just declared that it will restore 21 million hectares of degraded land, including wasteland, forest and agricultural land. The government...
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Global Biodiversity Is Collapsing, Warn Scientists
Of the estimated eight million species on earth, around a million face extinction, according to biodiversity specialists from around the world. Many...
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First Ever Global Scientific Eating Plan Forgets The World’s Poor
A team of 37 world-leading scientists from 16 countries have just released the world’s first ever scientific eating plan. The “planetary health...
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Air Pollution Wrecks Havoc In India Says A Report , Claims 1.2 Million Lives In 2017
A global report on air pollution has come out with some worrying figures. According to the report, Over 1.2 million people died...
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Himalayan Hydro Developers Wilfully Ignore Climate Risks
With growing warnings of the cascading impacts of climate change in the Hindu Kush Himalayas, the region’s hydropower sector ought to take...
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Biodiversity Of Hindu Kush Himalayas Will Plummet By 2100
It’s not just the snow and ice that’s disappearing on the roof of the world. Animals and plant species, crop diversity and...
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2018 Was The Fourth Hottest Year Ever Recorded – Report By NOAA And NASA
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA, 2018 was the fourth-hottest year ever recorded which means that the past...
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Coping With Storm Surges In The Sundarbans
Villages located near rivers, creeks and low-lying areas of the Sundarbans – the world’s largest mangrove forest that straddles Bangladesh and India...
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![A local fish market at Koshi Barrage in eastern Nepal. Most of the fish in the market are from Koshi River [image by: Nabin Baral]](https://i0.wp.com/impactnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/world-poor-e1557224197675.jpg?resize=450%2C270&ssl=1)
![A local fish market at Koshi Barrage in eastern Nepal. Most of the fish in the market are from Koshi River [image by: Nabin Baral]](https://i0.wp.com/impactnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/world-poor-e1557224197675.jpg?resize=80%2C80&ssl=1)
![Villagers in the Sundarbans are being displaced by coastal erosion, high soil salinity and increasingly violent cyclones [image by: Soumya Sarkar]](https://i0.wp.com/impactnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Sundarbans-storm-e1549092492985.jpg?resize=450%2C270&ssl=1)
![Villagers in the Sundarbans are being displaced by coastal erosion, high soil salinity and increasingly violent cyclones [image by: Soumya Sarkar]](https://i0.wp.com/impactnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Sundarbans-storm-e1549092492985.jpg?resize=80%2C80&ssl=1)
