by Abriel | Aug 3, 2017 | 2017, Climate Action
India’s monsoon has delivered 1 percent more rain than normal so far this year, but erratic distribution has flooded some areas and left others in drought, clouding the outlook for key summer-sown crops more than midway through the season. The uneven rains could...
by Abriel | Aug 3, 2017 | 2017, Climate Action
South Asia, home to one-fifth of the world’s population, could see humid heat rise to unsurvivable levels by century’s end if nothing is done to halt global warming, warned the researchers of the study in the journal Science Advances. The research is based...
by Abriel | Aug 3, 2017 | 2017, Climate Action
In a daily update by the disaster department, twenty-three people have died since July 5 due to the heavy rains which brought about some of the worst floods in years to Thailand’s rural northeast. Junta chief Prayut Chan-O-Cha flew to the hardest-hit province of...
by Abriel | Aug 3, 2017 | 2017, Climate Action
China’s national weather observatory issued a yellow alert for rainstorms on Wednesday as heavy rain is expected in most of north China and some areas in the south over the next 24 hours. China has a four-tier color-coded weather warning system, with red the...
by Abriel | Aug 3, 2017 | 2017, Decent Work & Economic Growth
A government initiative, the EntrePass scheme, has the aim of attracting more global start-ups by broadening the criteria and making it easier for them to establish operations here. Under the newly added criteria, start-ups can also be assessed other factors, outside...
by Abriel | Aug 3, 2017 | 2017, Affordable & Clean Energy
At an unprecedented summit in Berlin, protests forced a last minute change in venue for emergency diesel talks between the German government and the country’s auto industry. The summit shifted to the more secured Interior Ministry after Greenpeace and other protestors...
