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Category: Climate change

Posted on October 7, 2020

Dust aerosol responsible for snowmelt at higher elevation in western Himalayan Region

While black carbon has a large effect on snow darkening and resultant melting of snow, dust particles transported from as far as Saudi Arabia that gets deposited in the Western Himalayan Region has a large role to play in melting of snow, particularly at higher elevations.

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Posted on December 7, 2019December 7, 2019

Brazilian researchers remain anonymous on research paper

Due to fear of losing their job, researchers from Brazil have preferred to remain anonymous in a paper on Amazon forest fire. The acknowledgement section of the paper published last…

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Posted on September 3, 2019

Climate change may reduce banana yield in India

Continued global warming may adversely affect banana yield in India by 2050. With 29% of the world’s production, India is the world’s biggest producer of banana. But the decline in…

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Posted on August 24, 2019October 19, 2019

IIT Jodhpur fabricates a highly sensitive hydrogen sensor

A research team from IIT Jodhpur and IIT Hyderabad have together fabricated a sensor that can detect hydrogen gas even when present at extremely low concentration of 1 ppm. The…

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Posted on August 10, 2019August 10, 2019

Irrigation, agriculture shift rainfall to northwest India, IIT Bombay finds

IIT Bombay researchers have found the reason why the summer monsoon rainfall has shifted towards northwest India and intensification of extreme rainfall is seen over central India during the month…

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Posted on July 13, 2019

TIFR desalinates seawater without using electricity

TIFR researchers have produced gold nanoparticles that can absorb sunlight over the entire visible region and even the near infrared light. They used such gold nanoparticles to absorb energy from…

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Posted on July 7, 2019July 7, 2019

IITM Pune develops model to predict heat waves three weeks in advance

Researchers at Pune’s Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology have developed a model that can predict heat waves three weeks in advance. It can predict the date of onset, duration and…

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Posted on June 22, 2019June 22, 2019

Bhubaneswar shows how urbanisation can increase local temperature

While Cuttack and Bhubaneswar have become 0.5 degree C hotter due to urbanisation during the period 2001-2010, warming in smaller cities and towns has been relatively less, researchers at IIT Bhubaneswar…

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