The earth's climate is changing. Multiple lines of evidence show changes in our weather, oceans, and ecosystems, such as: These changes are due to a buildup of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere and the warming of the planet due to the greenhouse effect. Atmospheric Data Trapped In Ice Source: Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, 2018 The Greenhouse Effect The...
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Human emissions of greenhouse gases are the primary driver of climate change today.1CO2 and other greenhouse gases like methane and nitrous oxide are emitted when we burn fossil fuels, produce materials such as steel, cement, and plastics, and grow the food we eat. If we want to reduce these emissions, we need to transform our energy systems, industries, and food systems.At the same time, we need to...
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Compared to Q2 2024, the third quarter saw a 71 per cent decline in overall private equity (PE) and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) deal value but a 5 per cent increase in deal volume. |Last Updated: Oct 14, 2024, 11:45 AM IST|Source: IANS{x.setAttribute("src",source)},{once:!0});]]>New Delhi: India saw 25 deals worth $1.3 billion in the real estate sector in the July-September period (Q3), maintaining...
Luxence Luxury Living presents Seido Luxence, the new brand by Luxury Living, expresses the Group's talent for interpreting luxurious furnishings through its first collaboration with international designer Gwenael Nicolas, founder of the multidisciplinary studio Curiosity. By conflating elegant design with storytelling based...
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Our Trajectory Earth Will Continue to Warm and the Effects Will Be Profound The potential future effects of global climate change include more frequent wildfires, longer periods of drought in some regions, and an increase in the wind intensity and rainfall from tropical cyclones. Credit: left - Mike McMillan/USFS, center - Tomas Castelazo / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0, right - NASA....
The Greenhouse Effect Increasing Greenhouses Gases Are Warming the Planet Scientists attribute the global warming trend observed since the mid-20th century to the human expansion of the "greenhouse effect"1 — warming that results when the atmosphere traps heat radiating from Earth toward space. Life on Earth depends on energy coming from the Sun. About half the light energy reaching...
Climate science at a glanceClimate change is making storms wetter.Climate change attribution science has shown that climate change contributed to the sheer volume of moisture in the atmosphere for several storms including Hurricane Sandy, Snowmaggedon, and the Boulder floods.Background informationWhat are storms?At the most basic level, a storm is any interruption of the prevailing atmospheric pressure...