Monthly Archives: August 2022

Summer fires, deforestation, and desertification are some of the extreme weather events we have witnessed due to extreme temperatures and lack of rainfall leading to global water shortages.

This water shortage has led to many innovative approaches, and among all those, Spanish scientists have come up with an idea of collecting water with fog called “Life Nieblas”. Such a creative idea is to improve degraded landscapes and fuel reforestation. However, it remains to be seen how much success the strategy provides in watering the plants and trees. Read more

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Sustainable fashion has been a much talked about subject. The fashion industry contributes to a significant part of the global GHG emissions; a lot has been talked about in the industry adapting to sustainable measures.

However, the industry is now adapting to the demand for sustainability and is setting up some new rules keeping in mind the circularity of a given garment.

Bringing circularity to the centre stage, the industry now focuses on the longevity of a garment and how to maximise the use of a garment without making it repetitive and boring. Read more

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Fashion production makes up to 10% of global carbon emissions. With the rate at which the trend of fast fashion is growing, experts fear that the rate at which the clothes end up in landfills will increase at an unprecedented level, which will be difficult to curb.

The various governments and the fashion industry must take steps to discourage the fast fashion trend, emphasise recycling of clothes, and adapt to a circular economy. Read more

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Ice Shelves in Antarctica could melt faster than anticipated resulting in sea-level rise displacing the world to unimaginable levels. This would further lead to several cities being wiped entirely from the world map and disrupting the lives and livelihoods of millions of humans.

The above has been a study conducted as per the new models by the researchers in… read more

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The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has warned businesses, banks and household institutions to act against climate change or face legal action to curb the rising temperatures’ negative impacts.

The RBA and the financial regulators have gone ahead and taken such a step due to chronic risks from extreme heatwaves, thus, ensuring that economic frontiers take climate change as a “significant issue” Read more.

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A ‘bathtub ring’ is visible at the Lake Mead reservoir due to the western drought, as seen from the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River at the Nevada and Arizona state border.

Drought in several states of the United States of America has led the federal government to take some strict steps and opt for reducing the share of water being provided to the people. The efforts have been initiated after the inability of the states of Arizona, Nevada and Mexico to reach a consensus to reduce water use from the Colorado River. Read more

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England is facing its worst ever drought in recent history. Experts believe that the unprecedented heatwave and the drought-like situation are primarily due to a lack of sustainable food consumption and over-indulgence in meat.

However, reducing overall meat consumption seems to be a mammoth task; experts point out that it is the only solution to curb the climate crisis. Read more

Source: The Guardian

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