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318Nearly 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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Arctic Communities Push For Greater Say On Development
One event in Tromsø, Norway, marked the range of political action – as well as the scope of challenge – before the...
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Weak Workplan Wounds Paris Agreement
A Paris Agreement Work Programme (PAWP) was just about saved as the UN climate summit concluded a day behind schedule in Katowice,...
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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=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)
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