London: – Oxfam International, a voluntary organisation, has presented a disturbing report that the Coronavirus pandemic, increasing conflicts and the problems of climate change are claiming 11 starvation deaths every minute. Oxfam claimed that there is a Hunger pandemic going on in the world along with the Coronavirus pandemic. More than 20 million people are […]
Davos: Prime minister warned that climate change, terrorism and protectionism as three major global threats. The prime minister pointed this out while speaking from the dais of the ‘World Economic Forum’. He reminded that the current world is not represented in the organisations established after the second world war without mentioning that India was denied […]
New Delhi: As per reports, the parliamentary committee has recommended ‘The Indus Water Treaty signed between India and Pakistan in 1960, mediated by the World Bank, has become obsolete. The questions posed today were not considered at that time. Therefore, it becomes necessary to renegotiate the treaty.’ Disputes between India and Pakistan over the Indus […]
Washington – Leading analysts warn that polarization in US politics is likely to reach a tipping point and that it will be impossible to reverse it. This issue has surfaced in the report prepared by the US military and National Science Foundation, in association with private groups. Professor Michael Macy warned that the polarisation in […]
Moscow: – President Vladimir Putin has warned that the scale of natural disasters in Russia this year is unprecedented. With months of rain falling in the southern part of Russia in a matter of hours, droughts in the far east have not stopped, Putin said, pointing to Russia’s changing climate. Last month, it was reported […]
Moscow: – Russian Sakha-Yakutia region, part of southeastern Siberia, has been hit by 216 wildfires, affecting more than 1.5 million hectares. Volunteers, along with more than 2,000 soldiers, and military aircraft, have been deployed to control the fires. However, Russian authorities have reportedly used climate engineering technology since the fire was not coming under control. Sources claimed […]
For Israel, the business of the ‘fisheries’ is next in importance to agriculture. A country blessed with the sea is certain to have a strong and age-old bond with fishing and Israel is no exception to it. However, Israel is not just into fishing but practices and emphasizes on ‘fish farming’. Farming and that too […]
Israel succeeded in channelizing and supplying water from reservoirs in the north to areas in the south due to tireless efforts and research. It helped Israel bring the problem of water scarcity under control. However, taking into consideration the population that was increasing every day and the progress the Israeli society, it was quite clear […]
Seventy per cent of Earth is water. However, if we consider the current global water situation, we see several places affected by drought. The globe has many places where agriculture is impossible due to the scarcity of water. Also, we see many examples where people have to wander for even a single sip of water. […]
Analysts fear that at the current growth rate, the world population will cross the mark of 10 billion in just a few years from now. Obviously, the availability of the resources necessary to sustain the population will gradually go on diminishing. At the same time, extravagant and improvident use of resources, wastage due to carelessness […]
