Bengaluru has become the first city in India to formally tie-up with Google to improve the traffic management system. The capital of Karnataka, also known as the Silicon Valley of India, is known for its traffic woes and narrow roads that often lead to traffic jams. Bengaluru Traffic Police will now use Google's artificial intelligence to solve this problem. Bengaluru Police Commissioner Pratap Reddy made this announcement through a social media post.
Ahmedabad has taken one more step toward achieving sustainable development in the urban areas as the city has joined the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group. The announcement was made after the C40 committee approved the joining application as Ahmedabad becomes the tenth city from South-West Asia and the sixth from India to join the group.
A report published by the Mint revealed that PM Modi is expected to launch a national carbon trading platform on 15th August 2022. India has been dedicated to mitigating climate change and escalating to achieve the climate action targets set in the recent past. India has committed to achieving carbon neutrality by 2070 and the launch of the carbon trading platform will help in moving forward.
The forest area of Ardèche in south-eastern France is under fire and the temperature levels are touching a record high in the region. More than 500 firefighters have been deployed to control the fire that has destroyed 900 hectares of pine forest in southern France. As per the officials, a safe evacuation of the local residents was done before the escalation.
The UP government announced that the weather forecast system in Uttar Pradesh will now work at the local level. This means that the prediction of the mass of every village and locality will be different. It is often seen that it rains somewhere in the same city and is sunny in the other as the weather pattern usually changes only in a 5-10 km radius. The weather forecast is still issued for the entire state or district only hence this scenario is about to change.
A new report published by the Organizations Climate Trends and Climate Dot highlights that India must work towards boosting the clean and climate-tech startups in order to achieve the net-zero target efficiently by 2030.
Floods are wreaking havoc in the western, eastern and southern districts of Rajasthan affecting thousands of lives. There was a time when people here were unaware of floods but now the situation has turned to the opposite. Now flood situations are arising in the desert almost every year.
A report published by Reuters highlights alarming data that reveals the Alps’ glaciers are facing the wrath of global warming and they are going to face the biggest ice loss in the history of 60 years.
Recent research from New South Wales University indicates that human influence on the climate has increased the Incidents of heatstroke and wildfires. Since the middle of the 20th century, their intensity, frequency and duration have increased around the world and these changes are occurring rapidly.
A new study published by the Canadian and U.S. scientists published in the journal Onyx highlighted that meat-eating polar bears are now being forced to eat garbage as their icy homes are melting. The biggest reason behind this is climate change and global warming which has increased due to pollution and carbon emissions being spread by humans.
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Technology is a useful servant, but a dangerous master, it was rightly said. Electronic devices have grown into an inevitable part of our daily lives.