India, specifically, is more prone to extreme weather events that can result in degradation of monsoon-dependent agricultural productivity, water availability for consumption as well as irrigation that can result in food insecurity and malnutrition especially among marginalized population, along with direct...
Panels focus on areas around Chhattisgarh and Odisha (area enclosed by the red box in the map of India) which are two major rainfed rice growing States and have large numbers of small land-holders. White areas are where there is no rainfed rice, or little rainfed rice grown (based on 15...
This Perspective highlights links between gender inequality and climate change adaptation and mitigation, and proposes a roadmap for incorporating gender issues into the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways. These scenarios could help understand challenges under diverse trajectories of gender equality. ...
Top left: map of India with the reserves analysed in the study (boundaries from OSM43). Light grey donor reserves are protected areas with tiger presence that did not undergo enhanced conservation policy and were used to generate synthetic counterfactuals for tiger reserves. Dotted bounded boxes re...
Mumbai, India. Image © Johnny Miller Photography In November of 2022, the coastal city ofSharm El Sheikh, Egypt, hosted the 27th convention of theUnited Nations Conference of the Parties, known asCOP27. Since signing the Paris Agreement in 2015, the nearly annual conference has gained moment...
–Maurice Strong, founder of UNEP “Renewable energy technologies simply won’t work; we need a fundamentally different approach.” –Top Google engineers “Suggesting thatrenewableswill let us phase rapidly off fossil fuels in the United States, China, India, or the world as a whole ...
The geology of North America, K-3. The Geological Society of America, Boulder pp 137–154 Google Scholar Singh G, Wasson RJ, Agrawal DP (1990) Vegetational and seasonal climatic changes since the last full glacial in the Thar Desert, northwestern India. Rev Palaeobot Palynol 64:351–358 ...
Ocean alkalinity enhancement is a commonly touted method for marine carbon dioxide removal but many questions remain, including its capacity for large-scale carbon removal. Computer models have now been used to map the timescales and efficiency of carbon removal at global scale, revealing important re...
Impacts of current and climate induced changes in atmospheric stagnation on Indian surface PM2.5 pollution Atmospheric stagnation worsens PM2.5 pollution over India. This study develops a new index that projects ~7 more winter stagnation days over the IGP by 2100. Stringent enforcement of air pollut...
Green Rating for Integrated Habitat Assessment—A green-building rating system for catalysing climate-change mitigation/adaptation in India goals, facilitating the implementation of Government of India's relevant policies and climate-adaptation measures within a building project's different phases... P Koc...