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Offshore, the fireworks fired on the yachts that close the festivities generate pollution of fine particles with elements that fall into the sea and cause light pollution that disturb the seabirds. (Photo: AFP)

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The less glamorous side of Cannes Film Festival: Environmental hazard

The Cannes Film Festival hides a less glamorous reality of huge environmental mess'.

21 May 2019 9:00 AM IST

While this initial soil warming has benefitted Dahurian larch, further permafrost thaw could likely decrease tree growth and even cause the forest to decay, according to the authors. (Photo: Representational/Pexels)

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Climate change is making Dahurian larch trees to grow faster in China

Old trees in China's permafrost are witnessing growth spurt due to climate change.

19 May 2019 3:44 PM IST

But the farmers say life is tough on the fields where they toil during the annual harvesting season from January to June. (Photo:AP)

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Painful misery: Vietnam salt farmers battered by climate change,...

The work is punishing and the incomes unstable, subject to seesawing demand swayed by foreign imports, and unpredictable...

19 May 2019 12:21 PM IST

Prime Minister Scott Morrison said that intelligence indicated the attack was carried out by a local group, with support from the Islamic State group. (Photo:AP)

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Voting under way in climate-dominated Australia elections

Between 16 and 17 million people are expected to vote across the vast island-continent, with the opp centre-left Labor...

18 May 2019 9:13 AM IST

$The Bolsonaro administration has consistently decalred climate change to be a \secondary\ issue, reaffirming its lack of interest in participating in international efforts to fight global warming. (Photo: Representational/Pixabay)$ Life

Amazon forest's systematic destruction under Bolsonaro

Here's how the rainforests of Amazon in Brazil have suffered under the leadership of their current president, Jair...

15 May 2019 2:49 PM IST

The UNs intergovernmental panel on climate change warned last year that just 1.5 Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) of global warming could see 70-90 per cent of Earths coral reefs vanish. (Photo: AFP)

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Super corals can sustain in warm and acidic weather

'Super corals' give glimmer of hope for world's dying reefs.

15 May 2019 10:00 AM IST

Kayapo ethnic group leader Raoni Metuktire attended a meeting with deputies to discuss the rights of indigenous people at the National Congress in Brasilia. (Photo: AFP)

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In defence of Amazon

Indigenous chief Raoni from Brazil to travel across Europe to highlight the threats to the Amazon ecosystem.

14 May 2019 8:49 PM IST

In the southern states of Victoria and South Australia, koala populations vary widely from abundant to low or locally extinct. (Photo: Pexels)

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Koalas on the verge of extinction

A report claims koalas are functionally extinct', but what does that mean?

13 May 2019 4:24 PM IST

The US administration is not taking part in summit preparations but has not said it will skip the event, according to UN officials. (Photo: AFP)

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The UN push on climate change is shaping up amid geopolitical shifts

UN kicks off major climate change effort as it will be a tragedy for the whole world.

12 May 2019 12:47 PM IST

Climate change in the United Kingdom is causing the fatal disease Ranavirus which infects common frogs. (Photo: Representational/Pixabay)

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Fatal disease infecting frogs globally

Climate change causing infectious diseases in frogs around the world.

11 May 2019 10:38 AM IST

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Ancient artefacts melting under climate change

Archaeological sites in Alaska threatened by climatic change.

8 May 2019 4:54 PM IST

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Difficult for Bengal tigers to survive climate change: Report

Scientists have warned that climate change and rising sea levels will wipe out one of the world's last and largest tiger...

7 May 2019 12:16 PM IST