Cyclone Biparjoy was the first storm brewing in the Arabian Sea in the year 2023. It rapidly intensified into a severe cyclonic storm, with wind speeds reaching up to 170 kilometers per hour. It also had a significant impact on the onset and progress of the monsoon rains in India, delaying them by several days.
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World has already witnessing the implications climate change, however, the global action on climate change has been slow. 196 countries of the world came together to sign what is known as Paris Climate Accord at the United Nations Climate Change Conference held in Paris, France in 2015. The agreement is to limit temperature rise to
Read more →From 3-14 June 1992, Rio de Janeiro hosted the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED). The focus of this conference was the state of the global environment and the relationship between economics, science and the environment in a political context. The conference concluded with the Earth Summit, at which leaders of 105 nations
Read more →The Amazon River Basin is home to the largest rainforest on Earth called the Amazon Forest. This basin encompasses 7,000,000 km2 (2,700,000 sq mi), of which 5,500,000 km2 (2,100,000 sq mi) are covered by the rain forest. The vast region spans across eight rapidly developing countries – Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname
Read more →What is COP 24? COP 24 is the informal name for the 24th conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). UNFCCC is one of the three conventions adopted at the “Rio Earth Summit” in 1992. It entered into force in March 1994 and has near universal membership today.
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