Although integral to many farming systems, livestock production is nevertheless associated with many impacts that are deemed socially undesirable. Whereas animal welfare concerns have been documented for centuries...
Category - Global Warming
U.N Warns about ‘Unequivocal’ and ‘Unprecedented’ Climate Change.
Then Landmark assessment says that greenhouse gases are unequivocally driving extreme weather, but the world’s nations still have a chance to prevent the worst impacts. Longer heat waves, more intense rainfall, rising...
A look at the Past Climate can Help us Prepare for the Future Dangers
Can abrupt climate changes cause fluctuations in parts of the earth system? What effects would those events have on human society? An international team of natural and social scientists observedrapid changes over the...
Drought could be the next pandemic
The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) which is responsible for leading global disaster risk management, recently warned that drought is on of the list of ‘slow-onset disasters’ as it has affected...
Reflective, light-colored pavements can mitigate climate change if used properly
Global warming is a global concern. It has affected lives across the planet. From untimely rains to a 2°C rise in temperature there are many other consequences in between. The rising temperate is a problem faced by many...
Rising temperature due to global warming is fatal for life on earth
Aqua culture is becoming a popular business these days and accordingly, freshwater prawn farming has become a precious sector. The production of Macrobrachium rosenbergii (a giant prawn) jumped from 26, 588 MT in 1991...
A Positive Impact of Global Warming on Mount Everest
National Geographic and Rolex Perpetual Planet Everest Expedition 2019 hosted a journey to Mount Everest with 34 international scientists, mainly Nepalis, in the early summer of 2019. The article was published in...
Fish fauna of Western Ghats is in danger?
Endemic species in any region possess a huge significance as they amplify the amount of genetic diversity of that specific area. It is reported that the Western Ghats is one of the hotspots of biodiversity in the world...
Deep-seabed mining lastingly disrupts the seafloor food web
An international team of scientists around Tanja Stratmann from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen, Germany, and Utrecht University, the Netherlands, and Daniëlle de Jonge from Heriot-Watt...
Climate change could mean fewer sunny days for hot regions banking on solar power
Princeton-based researchers recently published in the journal Nature Communications the first study to assess the day-to-day reliability of solar energy under climate change. The team used satellite data and climate...