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CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

Biden, Trudeau pledged to counter China, climate change

12:21 pm February 24, 2021

Beijing: U.S. President Joe Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sought on Tuesday to turn the page on the Trump era, stressing the countries’ deep ties and pledging to work together to counteract Chinese influence and address climate change. “The United States has no closer friend, no closer friend than Canada,” Biden told Trudeau […]

Pvt sector firms join hands with govt to combat climate change, sign key declaration

6:01 pm November 5, 2020

New Delhi: Some of India’s biggest private-sector companies on Thursday pledged to work with the government to tackle climate change and build sustainable economies, thereby helping the country achieve its targets under the Paris Agreement. CEOs of companies like Reliance Industries Ltd, Tech Mahindra, Dalmia Cement, Ambuja Cement, Dr. Reddy’s, Sun Pharma, and Adani Transmission, among […]

Climate change drove early human species to extinction, study says

6:31 pm October 16, 2020

London: Climate change likely played a major role in driving early human species to extinction, according to a modelling study published on Friday which researchers said serves a “thunderous warning message” to humans today. Of the six or more different species of early humans, all belonging to the genus Homo, only Homo sapiens have managed […]

Epic scale of California wildfires continues to grow

10:49 pm October 5, 2020

SAN FRANCISCO: The staggering scale of California’s wildfires reached another milestone Monday: A single fire surpassed 1 million acres. The new mark for the August Complex in the Coast Range between San Francisco and the Oregon border came a day after the total area of land burned by California wildfires this year passed 4 million […]

Leaders to UN: If virus doesn’t kill us, climate change will

6:08 pm September 27, 2020

Johannesburg: In a year of cataclysm, some world leaders at this week’s annual United Nations meeting are taking the long view, warning: If COVID-19 doesn’t kill us, climate change will. With Siberia seeing its warmest temperature on record this year and enormous chunks of ice caps in Greenland and Canada sliding into the sea, countries […]

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