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In D Fadnavis's Assurance To Gen Z, A Mumbai Action Plan For Next 5 Years
We want to pledge Rs 17,000 crore towards climate action, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said at NDTV's Power Play.
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Air Pollution India's Biggest Health Crisis Since Covid, Warn Doctors
Air pollution is arguably the biggest public health crisis India has faced since the pandemic and will continue to worsen each year unless urgent action is taken, a UK-based Indian-origin pulmonologist warned.
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Opinion | What Recent Mumbai Flooding Should Teach Us About Climate
Extreme weather events have become more frequent across the world and barely anyone is spared. While Mumbai was dealing with a deluge, a glacier collapsed in Switzerland, dumping mud and ice into a valley and burying the village of Blatten.
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Fishing Kept Them Afloat For 700 Years. Now They Are Drowning In Debt
For nearly seven centuries, the Koli community in Mumbai has been making its subsistence from fishing, the Arabian Sea offering an abundance of piscine riches to enable it to do so. Today, however, the Kolis are having to venture farther and farther
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Mumbai May Lose Over 10% Land By 2040 Due To Rising Sea Level: Study
More than 10 per cent of the land in Mumbai and up to 10 per cent in Panaji and Chennai are at risk of inundation by 2040 due to climate change-induced sea-level rise, according to a new study.
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Rise In Nighttime Warming Impacting Sleep Quality, Health In India: Report
With Mumbai seeing the highest changes in the nighttime temperatures, India continues to suffer a severe heatwave, a new analysis on Friday showed climate change added nearly 50 to 80 nights each year
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Mumbai Civic Body Introduces Its First Climate Budget Report
On World Environment Day, the Brihanmumbai Corporation (BMC) has introduced a climate budgeting process to work on achieving the goals set by the Paris Agreement.
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What Is The Urban Heat Island Effect That's Making Metro Cities Hotter?
With the arrival of May, mercury is soaring in India's metropolitan cities. While the national capital, Delhi, recorded 33 degree Celsius followed by Mumbai at 34 degrees Celsius, both Chennai and Bengaluru stood at 37 degree Celsius each.
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India's Cities Won't Be Able To Cope With Urban Population Boom: Report
India is projected to see an explosion in its urban population in the coming decades, but its cities already cannot cope and climate change will make living conditions harsher still.
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Delhi, Mumbai May Become 5 Degrees Warmer By 2080-99: Greenpeace Report
Delhi and Mumbai's mean annual temperature will be five degrees Celsius higher in the 2080-99 period as compared to the 1995-2014 period if global CO2 emissions double by 2050, according to Greenpeace India's new heatwave projections.
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We Have A Plan: Uddhav Thackeray's Climate Action Pitch For Mumbai
Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday dedicated to the people the Mumbai Climate Action Plan and hailed the city for being the first in the country to have such a strategy in place.
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Stark Images Show What Climate Change Could Mean For Mumbai
Climate Central has released a set of stark, interactive images that show what will happen to some of the most iconic landmarks across the world if the climate change crisis is not tackled.
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80% Of Mumbai's Nariman Point, Cuffe Parade Will Be Submerged By 2050: Civic Body Head
Mumbai municipal commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal said today that by 2050, a major portion of south Mumbai, including the business district of Nariman Point and state secretariat Mantralaya, will go under water due to the rising sea level.
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Aaditya Thackeray Launches Mumbai's First Climate Action Plan
Mumbai, which has been battling freak weather conditions and erratic rains over the last few years, launched an ambitious plan to tackle the impact of climate change today.
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Mumbai Activist Seeks Protection From Arrest, Says Cops Seized Gadgets: 10 Points
After 22-year-old Disha Ravi's arrest, two more activists are wanted by the police in the case involving a "toolkit" shared by climate campaigner Greta Thunberg in support of the farmer protests. Warrants are out against activists Nikita Jacob and Shantanu and they face charges that are not bailable. Nikita Jacob has approached the Bombay High Cour...
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In D Fadnavis's Assurance To Gen Z, A Mumbai Action Plan For Next 5 Years
We want to pledge Rs 17,000 crore towards climate action, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said at NDTV's Power Play.
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Air Pollution India's Biggest Health Crisis Since Covid, Warn Doctors
Air pollution is arguably the biggest public health crisis India has faced since the pandemic and will continue to worsen each year unless urgent action is taken, a UK-based Indian-origin pulmonologist warned.
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Opinion | What Recent Mumbai Flooding Should Teach Us About Climate
Extreme weather events have become more frequent across the world and barely anyone is spared. While Mumbai was dealing with a deluge, a glacier collapsed in Switzerland, dumping mud and ice into a valley and burying the village of Blatten.
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Fishing Kept Them Afloat For 700 Years. Now They Are Drowning In Debt
For nearly seven centuries, the Koli community in Mumbai has been making its subsistence from fishing, the Arabian Sea offering an abundance of piscine riches to enable it to do so. Today, however, the Kolis are having to venture farther and farther
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Mumbai May Lose Over 10% Land By 2040 Due To Rising Sea Level: Study
More than 10 per cent of the land in Mumbai and up to 10 per cent in Panaji and Chennai are at risk of inundation by 2040 due to climate change-induced sea-level rise, according to a new study.
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Rise In Nighttime Warming Impacting Sleep Quality, Health In India: Report
With Mumbai seeing the highest changes in the nighttime temperatures, India continues to suffer a severe heatwave, a new analysis on Friday showed climate change added nearly 50 to 80 nights each year
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Mumbai Civic Body Introduces Its First Climate Budget Report
On World Environment Day, the Brihanmumbai Corporation (BMC) has introduced a climate budgeting process to work on achieving the goals set by the Paris Agreement.
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What Is The Urban Heat Island Effect That's Making Metro Cities Hotter?
With the arrival of May, mercury is soaring in India's metropolitan cities. While the national capital, Delhi, recorded 33 degree Celsius followed by Mumbai at 34 degrees Celsius, both Chennai and Bengaluru stood at 37 degree Celsius each.
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India's Cities Won't Be Able To Cope With Urban Population Boom: Report
India is projected to see an explosion in its urban population in the coming decades, but its cities already cannot cope and climate change will make living conditions harsher still.
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Delhi, Mumbai May Become 5 Degrees Warmer By 2080-99: Greenpeace Report
Delhi and Mumbai's mean annual temperature will be five degrees Celsius higher in the 2080-99 period as compared to the 1995-2014 period if global CO2 emissions double by 2050, according to Greenpeace India's new heatwave projections.
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We Have A Plan: Uddhav Thackeray's Climate Action Pitch For Mumbai
Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday dedicated to the people the Mumbai Climate Action Plan and hailed the city for being the first in the country to have such a strategy in place.
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Stark Images Show What Climate Change Could Mean For Mumbai
Climate Central has released a set of stark, interactive images that show what will happen to some of the most iconic landmarks across the world if the climate change crisis is not tackled.
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80% Of Mumbai's Nariman Point, Cuffe Parade Will Be Submerged By 2050: Civic Body Head
Mumbai municipal commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal said today that by 2050, a major portion of south Mumbai, including the business district of Nariman Point and state secretariat Mantralaya, will go under water due to the rising sea level.
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Aaditya Thackeray Launches Mumbai's First Climate Action Plan
Mumbai, which has been battling freak weather conditions and erratic rains over the last few years, launched an ambitious plan to tackle the impact of climate change today.
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Mumbai Activist Seeks Protection From Arrest, Says Cops Seized Gadgets: 10 Points
After 22-year-old Disha Ravi's arrest, two more activists are wanted by the police in the case involving a "toolkit" shared by climate campaigner Greta Thunberg in support of the farmer protests. Warrants are out against activists Nikita Jacob and Shantanu and they face charges that are not bailable. Nikita Jacob has approached the Bombay High Cour...
