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Watch fish rain in Iran caught on camera? Was it a biblical incident? Know science behind fish rain
Did fish rain from the sky in the Yasuj region of Iran? Videos show fish falling on the street with cars passing by. Iranian authorities detained five people for fabricating lies. Is it possible to rain fish? Know in detail.
Heatwave: Scientists certain that July will be the hottest month ever recorded globally; Details here
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expressed that the unfolding events align with earlier predictions and warnings. The rapid pace of change is the only unexpected factor. Guterres emphasized that climate change is now a reality, evoking fear, and cautioned that this is merely the initial phase.
The Indian way for a secure earth
Hopefully, India would be forming many headlines around the globe this year, as it hosts two of the major summits; the G20 (Group of twenty largest economies inclusive of the European Union) and SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organisation), a Eurasian political, economic and security forum. Both these groupings are of prime significance.
UN weather agency: Greenhouse gases reach new record in 2021
The three main greenhouse gases hit record high levels in the atmosphere last year, the UN weather agency said Wednesday, calling it an “ominous” sign as war in Ukraine, rising costs of food and fuel, and other worries have elbowed in on longtime concerns about global warming in recent months.“More bad news for the planet,” the World Meteorological Organization said in a statement along with its latest annual Greenhouse Gas Bulletin.
UN weather agency: Greenhouse gases reach new record in 2021
Of the three main types of heat-trapping greenhouse gases - carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide - the biggest jump from 2020 to 2021 was in methane, whose concentrations in the air came in with the biggest year-on-year increase since regular measurements began four decades ago, WMO said.
Survivors dig by hand after Afghanistan quake killing 1,000
The disaster inflicted by the 6 magnitude quake heaps more misery on a country where millions face increasing hunger and poverty and the health system has been crumbling since the Taliban retook power nearly 10 months ago amid the U.S. and NATO withdrawal. The takeover led to a cutoff of vital international financing, and most of the world has shunned the Taliban government.
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Will Covid crisis in rural India spell disaster for agriculture?
The factors that will likely contribute to this scenario include a normal monsoon that has been forecast, steady global demand for Indian farm products, stocking of rice in Africa and the Middle East due to uncertainties associated with the pandemic and, last but not the least, the sheer luck that the second wave didn’t coincide with the season of rice transplantation that takes place mainly in July.
World 'nowhere near' meeting Paris Agreement targets: Experts
But slowing down warming will require countries to do much more than they are currently doing to address climate change. “If we want to achieve the Paris Agreement’s goals then we should bend the carbon emissions curve in the next 15 years, and achieve carbon neutrality by 2050,” WMO Secretary General Petteri Taalas said.
Our weather forecast resolution has improved by 10 times in a decade: Mrutyunjay Mohapatra, Director General of Meteorology, IMD
Mohapatra is in Geneva to attend the World Meteorological Congress, where India has just won an election for a seat in the executive council of World Meteorological Organisation
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