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    Economic remedies for India’s water crisis

    20 Jul 2019

    While contemplating our natural resources, past conversations often centered around fossil fuels and them becoming scarce due to overuse. However, recent conversations have stirred our attention to another natural resource that is available in abundance but is still causing a crisis in many parts of the world. Water!

    Reversing land degradation is on India’s radar

    16 Jul 2019

    India is to host a major UN environmental conference in September that will witness the participation of around 197 countries to discuss global strategies required to combat drought and desertification Events leading up to and the main sessions of the fourteenth session of the Conference of the Parties (CoP) to the United Nations Convention

    Taiwanese face water rationing due to drought

    06 Apr 2021

    The island is struggling with the worst drought ever recorded in 56 years due to the typhoon not falling last year.

    North Korea seeing worst drought in a century: State media

    17 May 2019

    North Korea is experiencing its worst drought in over a century, official media reported on Friday, days after the World Food Programme expressed “very serious concerns” about the situation in the country.

    Millions hungry as drought grips Somalia: Charity

    06 May 2019

    Drought has left nearly two million Somalis in desperate need of food, a humanitarian agency warned on Monday, as poor rainfall pushes communities to the brink across East Africa.

    India's PM calls for water conservation push as drought hits crops

    30 Jun 2019

    The monsoon season is responsible for around 70% of India's annual rainfall, and is particularly important for the farm sector since more than half of the country's arable land is rain-fed.

    North Korea’s economy tanks as sanctions, drought bite: S.Korea

    26 Jul 2019

    North Korea’s gross domestic product (GDP) contracted by 4.1% last year in real terms, the worst since 1997 and the second consecutive year of decline after a 3.5% fall in 2017,

    No scope for lethargy on climate action

    04 Dec 2019

    Just a glance at some of the happenings around the world triggered by climate change would indicate the danger facing the planet and the need for urgency in tackling global warming.

    Record dry November in Australia fuels deadly fires

    05 Dec 2019

    Australia recorded its lowest level of rainfall for the month of November, the country’s weather bureau said on Thursday, as an unrelenting drought fuels deadly bushfires. All of Australia received less than 50 mm (1.9 inches)

    Bold move

    26 Sep 2019

    Severe droughts and hurricanes, melting ice sheets and rising sea levels are giving us a glimpse of the fallouts of a warmer planet. As much as leaders of some of the advanced nations

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