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14 States set to reopen schools for classes X-XII

-The Hindu Almost 50% of teachers vaccinated. At least 14 States and Union Territories have reopened or PLAn to reopen schools partially this month, given the continued low numbers of COVID-19 infection and the high rate of vaccination among teachers. However, almost all States only PLAn to bring back older students despite the Indian Council of Medical Research’s recommendation to start with primary school students. At a Health Ministry press conference on Tuesday,...

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An urban job guarantee scheme is the need of the hour -CP Chandrashekhar and Jayati Ghosh

-The Hindu Business Line Millions of urban Indian residents are struggling without livelihood opportunities. A national urban employment scheme needs to be put in PLAce immediately At long last — and more than a year after the need for such a scheme became obvious — a Parliamentary committee has recommended the institution of an urban employment scheme at the national level. The Standing Committee on Labour stated in its report of August 3,...

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IPCC report forecasts a future of severe weather -Jacob Koshy

-The Hindu Global warming to trigger extreme rain in South India, it says The current global warming trends overall are likely to lead an increase in annual mean precipitation over India, with more severe rains expected over southern India in the coming decades, says the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s Sixth Assessment Report, public on Monday. The PLAnet was irrevocably headed towards warming by 1.5° Celsius over pre-industrial times in the next...

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No time to lose, says Sunita Narain on the new IPCC report

-Press release by Centre for Science and Environment dated 9th August, 2021 The latest IPCC report confirms that we can no longer lose time in prevarication or in finding new excuses not to act, including empty promises of net zero by 2050. We bring you an appraisal of the report’s findings by CSE director general Sunita Narain * The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) releases the first part of its sixth...

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Daniel Swain, a climate scientist from the University of California, Los Angeles, interviewed by Avantika Goswami (Down to Earth)

-Down to Earth Daniel Swain, a climate scientist from the University of California, Los Angeles, talks about the new science of extreme events attribution The PLAnet is warming as predicted and its impacts are unfolding as laid out. Climate change is real; there is no dispute over it. But can we directly attribute these rising disasters to human-induced climate change? That is the raging scientific question. To answer this, a new stream of...

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