The Great Nicobar Project has come to exemplify a fractious ongoing national debate between strategic and economic imperative on one side, and long-term climate and environmental sustainability on the other. The ₹75,000 crore project, which includes a shipping terminal, power project and township, builds on previously untested economic potential in a geostrategic spot close to […]
Tag Archives: climate crisis
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The deepening effects of the climate crisis are throwing traditional models of climate prediction awry and underlining the need for more sensitive mitigation and adaptation plans. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) took a step forward in responding to this trend this week, announcing plans to issue heat index (HI) readings for weather stations by calculating […]
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The report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released on Monday marked the end of an eight-year global effort that analysed the scientific understanding about the climate crisis. While the science of the report is not new, this document connects the dots of the crisis and provides a road map for the world […]