Headline issues at the World Bank-IMF Spring Meetings 2024

The Spring Meetings are being held this week from April 15-20 in Washington, DC  

Spain records its hottest-ever temperature in 62 years

Hot air moving from North Africa into Europe and a high-pressure weather system are responsible for the current situation in the Iberian country

Zimbabwe to construct first utility geothermal power plant

Project aims to reduce Zimbabwe’s reliance on hydropower energy sources, which are under threat due to climate change

Comet Siding Spring flies past Mars; Mangalyaan safe

ISRO had repositioned Mangalyaan to avoid any collision with the comet

Crisis in the Himalayas: Nearly 50% perennial springs in the region have dried up

Known as the Earth's water tower, drying up of springs at such scale will not only affect 60% of Himalayan population but also the major water …

Key takeaways from the World Bank-IMF Spring Meetings 2024

The two Bretton Woods Institutions need to build momentum to deliver money for climate finance

Air during COVID-19 lockdown: March’s last week cleanest so far in Delhi

This is the first time since 2016 that March in spring has recorded lowest pollution levels

Phool Dei: Uttarakhand's festival of flowers to teach kids environmental conservation

The festival is celebrated in Garhwal, Kumaun regions to teach children to cherish & nurture nature

Spread of non-violent strategies can empower civil societies in Middle East

The Arab Spring may not have put an end to re-colonisation of the Middle East and North Africa, but the fall of long-time dictators shows signs …

How climate change is affecting the seasons

One of the most noticeable effects of climate change is the changing patterns of vegetation seasonality around us

What happens when a raindrop hits a puddle?

Dispersion is the ability of waves of different wavelengths to each move at their own individual speeds

India should brace for dry and hot spring-summer, El Nino, say experts

It is too early to predict an El Nino but it is possible, say meteorologists

Climate change influences rise and fall of insect populations: Study

A study by German researchers tried to find answers to whether an insect apocalypse is actually going on or not

Inadequate compensation of villagers for ecosystem services weakens conservation efforts

Situation of villagers in Palampur village, Himachal Pradesh is a good case study 

Hot springs harbour microbial diversity

Untapped bacterial cultures from Unkeshwar hot springs on the bank of river Penganga in Maharashtra are being studied for their metabolic use in …

'Dissatisfaction with quality of life triggered Arab Spring'

Standard development indicators failed to predict the outburst of anger in the spring of 2011, says a World Bank report

Climate change threatens spring wildflowers by speeding up the time when trees leaf out above them

Country-wide pattern: Trees, wildflowers active earlier now than in the past, and they are active earlier in warm years & places

Heralds of early spring? Mango flowering observed in Odisha, Telangana a month sooner than usual

Normally, flowering of mango trees begins in southern Kerala around this time

How climate change is messing up the ocean’s biological clock, with unknown long-term consequences

Phytoplankton blooms are, in some aspects, metronomes of the annual oceanic cycles around which many species’ biological clocks are synced …

What lurks beneath the Network

World Water Week 2023: We must invest in natural solutions like spring revival for water security

Time to move away from a hard-engineering approach and embrace nature-based solutions for water security in hill and mountain communities  

Spring is vanishing as Earth is warming. How can we save it?

By controlling temperature rise, we can prevent natural disasters and preserve seasonal cycles  

Spring hurricanes in Arctic to intensify, warns NASA

Sea ice loss, rapidly warming temperatures to drive changes

Climate change unveils new methane source: Groundwater springs of Norway

Emissions to further increase if warming continues, finds study

James Watson to auction his Nobel Prize for discovering double helix structure of DNA

The money would go to the institutions where he studied and worked