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Delhi’s Post-Diwali Air Quality Best In 5 Years, Says Environment Minister Gopal Rai, Launches 150 Mobile Anti-Smog Guns

The air quality index (AQI) stood at 323 on Tuesday (the day after Diwali) as compared to 462 last year, which means the "air pollution declined...

Replace Paper-Based Registry, Now Healthcare Is Just A Click Away With 'Khushi Baby’ App

Health3 years ago

Replace Paper-Based Registry, Now Healthcare Is Just A Click Away With ‘Khushi Baby’ App

Khushi Baby works towards providing villages with digital health solutions. Their mission is to monitor and motivate community health, especially maternal and child health, at the...

There Is Enough Food For Everybody, It Is About Accessibility Shombi Sharp, UN Resident Coordinator

Banega Swasth India Podcast3 years ago

There Is Enough Food For Everybody, It Is About Accessibility: Shombi Sharp, UN Resident Coordinator

Food systems are increasingly stressed, as the world faces an overlapping crisis - climate change, pandemic and wars, said, Shombi Sharp, United Nations Resident Coordinator in...

Continue Wearing Mask In Crowded Places, Especially People In Vulnerable Category: Experts

Coronavirus Outbreak3 years ago

Continue Wearing Mask In Crowded Places, Especially People In Vulnerable Category: Experts

Doctors at Delhi's leading government and private hospitals concurred that people should exercise "extra caution" because though cases in Delhi are on the lower side, a...

Concentrated Stubble Burning Around Diwali May Compound Problem: Centre for Science and Environment

Air Pollution3 years ago

Concentrated Stubble Burning Around Diwali May Compound Problem: Centre for Science and Environment

The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) a cocktail of emissions from firecrackers and stubble burning in neighbouring states deplete the air quality

Some Countries May See Another Wave Of COVID-19 Infection Due To XBB Subvariant, Says WHO Chief Scientist

Coronavirus Outbreak3 years ago

Some Countries May See Another Wave Of COVID-19 Infection Due To XBB Subvariant, Says WHO Chief Scientist

Dr Soumya Swaminathan said that there was no data from any country to suggest that these new variants are clinically more severe

Global Roll-Out Of 12 Billion COVID-19 Vaccine Doses Largest-Ever But Access An Issue: WHO

Coronavirus Outbreak3 years ago

Global Roll-Out Of 12 Billion COVID-19 Vaccine Doses Largest-Ever But Access An Issue: WHO

Covishield was produced at the SII's Pune facility with a master seed from Oxford University and AstraZeneca

Solar-Powered Village In Gujarat Is An Example Of Reconciliation Between Humankind And Planet: UN Chief

Gujarat3 years ago

Solar-Powered Village In Gujarat Is An Example Of Reconciliation Between Humankind And Planet: UN Chief

Solar energy is transforming the lives of the local people, making them more healthy, giving them more prosperity and at the same time contributing to the...

Delhi PM2.5 Pollution In Winters Has Dipped 20 Per Cent Compared To Pre-Pandemic Period: Report

Air Pollution3 years ago

Delhi PM2.5 Pollution In Winters Has Dipped 20 Per Cent Compared To Pre-Pandemic Period: Report

The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) assessment captured seven successive winters and pre-winter trends, starting from January 1, 2015 in Delhi and NCR

PM Modi Gives 'Reduce, Reuse, Recycle' Mantra; Says Climate Change Goes Beyond Policy-Making

Climate Change3 years ago

PM Modi Gives ‘Reduce, Reuse, Recycle’ Mantra; Says Climate Change Goes Beyond Policy-Making

PM Modi asked people to adopt the concept of 'reduce, reuse and recycle' and circular economy and said India is committed to tackling the menace of...

Washington: A study suggested that Upper ocean heating in the equatorial Pacific - a key oceanographic region in Earth's climate system - is likely to make the East Asian monsoon season wetter. The study was published in the journal, 'Nature'. Recent increases in ocean heat content - where energy is absorbed by the waters - have been implicated in the intensification of tropical storms that draw their energy from the surface of the ocean. The link between ocean heating and rainfall on land is, however, less clear. "Our study suggests variations in ocean thermal structure affect the delivery of moisture, latent heat, and what happens when they arrive on land," said Yair Rosenthal, a professor of marine and coastal sciences in the Rutgers' School of Art and Sciences and School of Environmental and Biological Sciences. Rosenthal said the changes in the latitudinal temperature gradient - the difference in sea-surface temperature between low and high latitudes - not only control how energy is absorbed by the equatorial upper ocean but how winds carry the moisture from the ocean onto land. The study, led by Zhimin Jian of Tongji University in China, found that over the past 360,000 years, increases in monsoonal rain in eastern China correlated with increases in the heat content of the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool-a region where sea surface temperatures remain above ~82°F year-round-likely due to enhanced transport of moisture and latent heat absorbed in the water vapor from the ocean to the continent. According to the study, the changes in upper ocean heat content follow shifts in the Earth's orbit that occur about every 23,000 years and change the distribution of incoming solar radiation at each latitude. By using two foraminifera species, calcareous marine organisms, one a surface dweller and the other that lives approximately 200 meters below the sea surface, the scientists reconstructed how the upper ocean thermal structure gets its heat and energy. They compared their results with climate model simulations and reconstructions of the monsoonal precipitation in eastern China for the same period. The coupling of ocean heat content and monsoon variations, both coordinated by insolation changes at astronomical timescales, is critical for regulating the global hydroclimate, the researchers said.

Climate Change3 years ago

Ocean Heating Can Increase Rainfall In East Asia: Study

According to the study, the changes in upper ocean heat content follow shifts in the Earth's orbit that occur about every 23,000 years and change the...

Concern About Climate Change Shrinks Globally As Threat Grows: Study

Climate Change3 years ago

Concern About Climate Change Shrinks Globally As Threat Grows: Study

Annually, air pollution has cost the world $8.1 trillion, or 6.1 per cent of global gross domestic product, causing between 6 to 9 million death, the...

Delhi’s Post-Diwali Air Quality Best In 5 Years, Says Environment Minister Gopal Rai, Launches 150 Mobile Anti-Smog Guns

Replace Paper-Based Registry, Now Healthcare Is Just A Click Away With ‘Khushi Baby’ App

There Is Enough Food For Everybody, It Is About Accessibility: Shombi Sharp, UN Resident Coordinator

Continue Wearing Mask In Crowded Places, Especially People In Vulnerable Category: Experts

Concentrated Stubble Burning Around Diwali May Compound Problem: Centre for Science and Environment

Some Countries May See Another Wave Of COVID-19 Infection Due To XBB Subvariant, Says WHO Chief Scientist

Global Roll-Out Of 12 Billion COVID-19 Vaccine Doses Largest-Ever But Access An Issue: WHO

Solar-Powered Village In Gujarat Is An Example Of Reconciliation Between Humankind And Planet: UN Chief

Delhi PM2.5 Pollution In Winters Has Dipped 20 Per Cent Compared To Pre-Pandemic Period: Report

PM Modi Gives ‘Reduce, Reuse, Recycle’ Mantra; Says Climate Change Goes Beyond Policy-Making

Ocean Heating Can Increase Rainfall In East Asia: Study

Concern About Climate Change Shrinks Globally As Threat Grows: Study

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