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Shrinking sea meadows store more carbon than forests

April 8, 20211326 Views

Scientists are now racing to track what’s left of the underwater seagrass plateaus Hundreds of miles from the nearest shore, ribbon-like fronds flutter in the ocean currents sweeping across an underwater mountain plateau the size of Switzerland. A remote-powered camera glides through the sunlit, turquoise waters of this corner of the western Indian Ocean, capturing rare footage of what scientists believe is the world’s largest seagrass meadow. A shoal of fish swim over seagrass on the Saya de Malha Bank within the Mascarene plateau, Mauritius March 20, 2021. Tommy Trenchard/Greenpeace/Handout via REUTERS Human activity is helping destroy the equivalent of a soccer field of these seagrasses every 30 minutes around the world, according to the U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP). A...

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Climate change shrinking marine life richness near equator

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April 6, 20211008 Views

During some summers, as the Caribbean water temperatures climb, the luminous coral colonies of gold, green and blue that ring the island nation of Cuba give way to patches of skeletal white. The technicolor streaks of darting tropical fish flash less frequently. The rasping sounds of lobsters go quiet. While Cuba’s marine life has suffered from overfishing and pollution, there is mounting evidence that the warming of waters due to climate change may be taking a large toll as well -- both off the island’s coast and globally. A view of a coral colony on the coast of Havana, Cuba, March 28, 2021. REUTERS/Sarah Marsh Research published Monday finds that the total number of open-water species declined by about half in the 40 years up to 2010 in tropical marine zones worldwide. Duri...

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जापान में चेरी ब्लॉसम का मौसम जल्दी आया, चिंता लाया

UPENDRA SWAMI

April 5, 20211994 Views

जापान में बसंत की कल्पना करें तो खुद-ब-खुद चेरी ब्लॉसम का ख्याल आता है। कोई एक फूल किसी जगह के लिए कितनी अहमियत रखता है कि उसका खिलना पूरे देश में महीनों तक जश्न की वजह रहता है। जापान का चेरी ब्लॉसम फूल इसका उदाहरण है। लेकिन इसका इस साल जल्दी खिल जाना लोगों की चिंता का सबब बन गया है। यह कोई मामूली बात नहीं, लेकिन क्या यह किसी बड़े बदलाव का संकेत है! फूलों के खिलने का मौसम है। आखिरकार धरती के ऊपरी आधे हिस्से, जिसे हम लोग उत्तरी गोलार्ध कहते हैं, में ये बसंत के दिन हैं। सतह पर पसरी ठंड जैसे-जैसे पिघलने लगती और उसे सूरज की तपिश मिलती है तो फूल अंकुरित होने लगते हैं। ऐसे में स्वाभाविक ही है कि खिलते फूल पूरे माहौल में उल्लास व रंगत भर देते हैं। फाइल फोटोः जापान में हर तरफ चेरी ब्लॉसम का रंग कोई खास फूल कितनी अहमियत रखता है कि उसका खिलना पूरे देश में महीनों तक जश्न की वजह रहता है, जाप...

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Warming Arctic at the frontier of climate insight and risk, experts say

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January 13, 20211200 Views

The environmental transformation happening in the Arctic is key to understanding the potential global impacts of climate change, an Alaska Native leader and a polar explorer told the Reuters Next conference on Monday. With climate change warming the Arctic twice as fast as the overall planet, newly possible commercial activities have also raised questions about responsibility and risk at the top of the world, an insurance expert said. FILE PHOTO: Greenpeace's Arctic Sunrise ship navigates through floating ice in the Arctic Ocean, September 15, 2020. Picture taken with a drone. REUTERS/Natalie Thomas/File Photo Native peoples’ observations of changes in the Arctic - such as diseases in fish, or shifts in the time of year when mountain snow melts - are key to understanding how clim...

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Emissions hit new record, put world on track for 3C warming

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December 10, 20201071 Views

Arctic warming cascades through ocean and over land Greenhouse gas emissions reached a new high last year, putting the world on track for an average temperature rise of 3 degrees Celsius, a U.N. report showed on Wednesday. The report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) - the latest to suggest the world is hurtling toward extreme climate change - follows a year of sobering weather extremes, including rapid ice loss in the Arctic as well as record heat waves and wildfires in Siberia and the U.S. West. On Monday, researchers at Europe’s Copernicus Climate Change Service said last month was the hottest-ever November on record. Meanwhile, The Arctic region has had its second-warmest year since 1900, continuing a pattern of extreme heat, ice melt and environmental transf...

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India has identified three large Snow Leopard landscapes

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October 24, 2020589 Views

Government of India has been conserving snow leopard and its habitat through the Project Snow Leopard (PSL). The PSL was launched in 2009. Speaking at the International Snow Leopard Day 2020 through a virtual meeting, Minister of State for Environment Forest and Climate Change Babul Supriyo said, Government is committed to landscape restoration for snow leopard habitat conservation, and implementing participatory landscape-based management plans involving local stakeholders. The Minister said, India is also party to the Global Snow Leopard and Ecosystem Protection (GSLEP) Programme since 2013. During the virtual meet, Supriyo stated that India has identified three large landscapes, namely, Hemis-Spiti across Ladakh and Himachal Pradesh; Nanda Devi – Gangotri in Uttarakhand; and Kha...

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All-female scientific coalition calls for protection of Antarctic Peninsula

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October 20, 2020469 Views

Climate change and human activity are harming Antarctica and threatening wildlife from humpback whales to microscopic algae, more than 280 scientists and conservation experts say in urging protections for the icy region. The coalition - all women - called for creating a new marine protection area around Antarctica, as governments on Monday began a two-week meeting of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources. FILE PHOTO: An iceberg floats near Lemaire Channel, Antarctica, February 5, 2020. Picture taken February 5, 2020. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino Two Antarctica areas are already protected: The South Orkney Islands and the Ross Sea. The new protection area, proposed in 2018 by commission members Chile and Argentina, would cover the western Antarctic P...

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September was world’s hottest on record

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October 7, 20201192 Views1

Last month was the world’s hottest September on record, with unusually high temperatures recorded off Siberia, in the Middle East, and in parts of South America and Australia, the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service said on Wednesday. Extending a long-term warming trend caused by emissions of heat-trapping gases, high temperatures this year have played a major role in disasters from fires in California and the Arctic to floods in Asia, scientists say. “As we go into an even warmer world, certain extremes are likely to happen more often and be more intense,” Copernicus senior scientist Freja Vamborg told Reuters, pointing to heat waves and periods of intense rain as examples of this. Globally, September was 0.05 degrees Celsius warmer than the same month in 2019...

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Travel operators will have to deal with environmental impact as well

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September 25, 2020468 Views

As young people unite across the world on the 25 September, in their first global action during the pandemic, it becomes clear that COVID-19 is not the only obstacle for future profitability for travel operators, says GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company. Johanna Bonhill-Smith, Travel & Tourism Analyst at GlobalData, comments: “38% of GenZ and 41% of millennials desire to hear news about a brand’s sustainability initiatives right now. How a brand is acting during COVID-19 is still the main priority, but this pandemic has shown the global population the impact that travel and tourism can have on the natural environment.” Operators continue to struggle amid slumps in travel demand and fluctuating travel corridors - for example, Ryanair recently reported its booking...

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Snow trouts losing their habitat in Himalayan rivers

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September 10, 2020978 Views

Snow trout, the iconic cold water fish species found in Himalayan rivers, would lose their habitat by 16 per cent in the next 30 years and by over 26 per cent by 2070, a new climate change study by the government’s Wildlife Institute of India has found. The study -- ‘Is There Always Space at The Top’-- was published in the ‘Ecological Indicators’, a journal of high international repute based at the Netherlands, on September 6. The study indicates that most of the lower altitude streams across the Himalayas would be rendered unsuitable for the existence of snow trout with the rise in temperatures. An ensemble of 72 statistical models across the Himalayas, the study -- authored by Wildlife Institute of India (WII) scientists Aashna Sharma, Vineet Kumar Dubey, Jeyaraj Antony Joh...