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    Women’s Lives Get Harder in Bundelkhand as Water Scarcity Grows

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    Building a Heatwave-Resistant India

    Heat waves may have warmed the environment — but India’s response to them remains lukewarm, if not cold. A more sustained and aggressive policy...
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    Shifting Climate Boundaries

    For decades, studies have shown that a warming climate is pushing the treeline to shift upwards across the world — including in the Everest...
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    ‘Middle East Cooperation Needed’ to Combat Dust Storms

    After storms swept through Iraq, Iran, Syria, Kuwait in recent weeks, countries are banding together to tackle surge in dust storms. Iran, Iraq and...
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    Emergency Declared in Italy to Manage Drought

    Smarting under the effects of an unusually early heatwave and deficient rainfall, both ascribed to climate change, the government of Italy has declared a...
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