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EVENTS Marginalization Focus of Conference on Urban Spaces and Gender

<p>With the goal of exploring gender, marginalization and equity in urban spaces in the Asia-Pacific, an international conference on Urban Spaces and Gender was convened on November 1st, 2017.</p>

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SOLAR FUTURE Solar Mission Reviewing the Targets

The highly ambitious National Solar Mission has only five more years to complete its target of 100 GW power generation capacity. Not only is its completion eagerly awaited, but more crucial would be to see whether the Mission would be able to cover the mass populace that has been left out of the conventional power grid scenario till now.

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INDIA'S OUTDOORS Hornbills in India

Hornbills play a significant role in the regeneration of forests. Yet, logging and hunting in north-east India is leading to a huge decline in their population. Community involvement in the conservation process thus needs to be stressed.

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SOLAR FUTURE Solar Rooftop Installations: Not Quite off the Ground

<p>The current state of rooftop installations in India suggests that unless some major technological leap brings down the price of panels drastically, the uptake for rooftop systems at the household scale might not reach the desired levels.</p>

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ENVIRONMENT Warming Trend | Antarctic Climate Change in the Last Fifty Years

<p>Snow that settles on the surface falls over previous layers of snow, and with the passage of time, these become compressed to form glacial ice. Each layer in the ice core, like in soil deposits visible in certain canyons at other parts of the Earth, represents snow that had fallen at a certain time in the past.</p>

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WEEKLY WEATHER CLIMATE CHANGE | The KoppenTrewartha Climate Classification System

<p> Instead of relying on individual incidents, a change in climactic patterns as indicated by changes in climactic zones as defined in widely accepted systems such as the Koppen-Geiger and Koppen-Trewartha climate classification models could suggest that climate change is indeed forcing changes in the Earth’s climatic patterns.</p>

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ENVIRONMENT Black Carbon as an Important Climate Change Challenge

<p>Black carbon is a substance responsible for up to 40 per cent of the effects of global warming till date (Philadelphia Tribune, 2017), most of it made up of soot. Black carbon is a form of particulate matter that can be airborne and can be suspended in the atmosphere and travel thus.</p>

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ENVIRONMENT The Environment and Atomic Policy of the UN

<p>Changes in Global Atomic Policy The 2005 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded jointly to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Mohamed El Baradei in lieu of their work in preventing military use of nuclear energy and for their efforts towards the safest possible standards of the use of nuclear for peaceful purposes.</p>

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DISASTER EVENTS The Mexico Analysis | Two Earthquakes and Multiple Aftershocks

<p>Mexico Earthquake Backdrop Late in the evening of September 7, 2017, an 8.1 magnitude earthquake struck Mexico’s southern coast, which Mexico declared as its strongest earthquake in over hundred years. The September 7th earthquake in Mexico is the strongest among a series of earthquakes and aftershocks that have been occurring in the region around Mexico [&hellip;]</p>

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भूगोल और आप जैव विविधता का भी रक्षक सशस्त्र सीमा बल

<p>सशस्त्र सीमा बल के जवानों द्वारा किये गये वन्य जीवन संरक्षण के इन प्रयासों के चलते सैकड़ों वन्यजीवों की विभिन्न प्रजातियों को बचाया गया और जैव विविधता का संरक्षण हुआ। इससे पर्यावरण की भी सुरक्षा हुई।</p>

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