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Melting Glaciers Manifest Doomsday
The glaciers of Uttarakhand are melting faster due to global warming, increasing emissions of greenhouse gases, and black carbon. According to a study by scientists at the Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun there are a total of 9575 glaciers in the Himalayan region out of which 900 glaciers are in Uttarakhand. Some of the important glaciers that are melting at a fast pace are Gangotri, Satopanth, Bhagirathi, and Raikhana.
Delhi Is Responsible For Its Own Air Pollution
According to the Central Pollution Control Board data, the air quality of Delhi has been continuously deteriorating since October 18 this year. On October 21, Delhi's average air quality index was recorded above 300. Looking at the deteriorating air quality index, the Delhi government has had to implement a Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) 2 to control air pollution.
Humans Can Alleviate Flood Disasters Original
In 2024, most of India received above average monsoon rainfall. Usually in the month of September, the monsoon winds return from the north-western states of India, but this year (2024) the monsoon winds are pouring heavy rains in the states of Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, and some others.
Can India Escape The Vicious Cycle Of Natural Disasters? Original
Since the beginning of 2024, some parts of India have been reeling under the cycle of unpredictable weather, and natural disasters due to climate change. Sometimes it is suffering from extreme snowless winters, rain, extreme long and intense heat waves, droughts and floods, and pre-monsoon cyclonic storms etc. The rise in natural disasters in India has not been unexpected. The increase in natural disasters is due to the increase in the average temperature of the earth.
India And Her Capital Slide Down The Global Air Quality Graph
The World Air Quality Report 2023, prepared by a Swiss technology company IQAir, was released on March 19 2024. According to this report, India is the third most polluted country in the world after Bangladesh and Pakistan. New Delhi, the National Capital of India, is the most polluted Capital in the world. This report also stated, the concentration of PM 2.5 is 54.4 in the country's air quality and in the national capital it is 92.7 micrograms per cubic meter.
Can Himachal Pradesh Be Saved From Destruction?
Himachal Pradesh has not yet recovered from the devastation caused by the heavy rains in July that it has been engulfed again by natural disasters. The death toll related to rain and cloudbursts continues to rise. Heavy rains have caused widespread destruction due to landslides in Shimla's Summer Hill, Krishna Nagar, and Phagli. A Shiva temple in Summer Hill was hit by landslides.
How Should Shimla Be Developed?
The Supreme Court has allowed the lifting of the ban on construction on 17 green belts of Shimla, and the core area of the city imposed by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) in connection with the Himachal Pradesh government's Shimla Development Plan 2041.
Can Himachal Pradesh Be Saved From Natural Disasters?
Himachal Pradesh has not yet recovered from the devastation caused by the heavy rains in July that it has been engulfed again by natural disasters. The death toll related to rain and cloudbursts continues to rise. Heavy rains have caused widespread destruction due to landslides in Shimla's Summer Hill, Krishna Nagar, and Phagli. A Shiva temple in Summer Hill was hit by landslides.
The Earth Is Scorching Hot
According to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the Copernicus Climate Change Service, the month of July 2023 is almost certain to become the hottest month on record. According to these organisations, the average temperature for the first 23 days of July 2023 has been recorded at 16.95 degree Celsius, which is 0.32 degree Celsius higher than the average temperature of 16.63 degree Celsius for the entire month of July 2019, which was the hottest month so far.
Floods Often Caused By Unplanned Development
Punjab continues to be in the grip of floods. In more than 1,400 villages in 19 districts of Punjab, water from the Sutlej, Beas, Ravi, and Ghaggar rivers has caused heavy damage to crops, houses, and disrupted the people’s lives. The state government has evacuated more than 25,000 people to safer places to avoid the flood. So far 38 people have died and three are still missing in the state, around 260 houses have been completely destroyed and hundreds of houses have been severely damaged.
How Can Joshimath Be Saved?
On January 7 2023 Joshimath city in Uttarakhand was declared a land subsidence zone. About 60 families have been moved to temporary relief centers from their houses that have become unlivable. Another 90 families are yet to be shifted to safer places. Joshimath city has a total of 4500 buildings out of which 610 have suffered major cracks. The number of damaged buildings may increase. People have been accommodated in hotels, colleges and a Gurdwara.
COP-27: Act Now, Tomorrow is Too Late
The Conference of Parties-27 (COP-27) ended on November 20 in the Egyptian city of Sharm el-Sheikh. This conference was supposed to last until November 18, but it ended on November 20 as no result was reached by November 18. In this conference, the item named 'Loss and Damages Fund' has been passed, which is being considered as a major achievement. This item was an issue of discussion for a long time, but the developed countries were avoiding it with various excuses.
Heat and Natural Disasters - Children Pay A Heavy Mental and Physical Cost
On October 25 2022, UNICEF released a report titled "The Coldest Year of the Rest of Their Lives: Protecting Children from Escalating Impacts of Heatwaves". According to this report, due to an increase in the average temperature of the earth, every child in the world would be affected by heatwaves every year by 2050. In 2020, 559 million children were affected by four to five heatwaves a year.
How To Save Bengaluru from Floods?
In the first week of September, many areas of Bengaluru, Karnataka's capital, known as the Silicon Valley of India, experienced flood-like conditions due to heavy rains. Rainwater entered residential colonies as well as IT companies such as Deloitte, Wipro, Ecospace located on the city's outer ring road. The water was as heavy as a river, flowing on Bengaluru roads. Students and office goers had to resort to boats and tractors to commute.
Overheated, Flooded, the Earth is Sounding an SOS
According to a report released on August 22, 2022 by The Joint Research Centre, European Commission's Science and Knowledge Service, two-thirds of the European continent has been experiencing the worst drought in the last 500 years due to extreme temperature and persistence heatwaves this year. This drought is so severe that the water levels of many European rivers like Loire, Rhine, Danube, Po receded to a very low level.
Deforestation and Infectious Disease
On July 23 the Director General of the World Health Organization declared the monkeypox virus a global public health emergency in view of increasing cases of the monkeypox disease internationally. The virus which spreads through close contact including sexual contact has been recorded in 88 countries of the world, with about 28,000 cases confirmed worldwide, according to data released by the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
Global Warming Unfolds
With deforestation and fossil emissions increasing the average temperature of the earth, climatic and weather events are now happening more intensely than before. This year, both the Arctic and Antarctic as well as many countries around the world were in the grip of an early arrival of heat waves.
Improving India's Poor Environmental Performance
On June 8, Yale University's Center for Environmental Law and Policy and Columbia University's Center for International Earth Science Information Network released a report of the Environmental Performance Index 2022. India ranked lowest among the 180 countries considered, lagging behind Myanmar at 179, Vietnam (178), Bangladesh (177) and Pakistan (176).
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