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  • The 2011-2020 decade, though warmest ever recorded in history, saw the lowest number of deaths from extreme events, said World Meteorological Organisation report, “The Global Climate 2011-2020: A Decade of Acceleration”.
  • It attributed this to an improvement in early warning system driven by improvements in forecasting and better disaster management.
  • In India, for instance, improvements in forecasting cyclone formation and the time it took to reach land have led to greater preparedness and evacuation of those most at risk.
  • The 2011-2020 decade was the first since 1950 when there was not a single short-term event with 10,000 deaths or more.
  • The report also says that this was the first decade that the depleted ozone hole visibly showed recovery.
  • Glaciers measured around the world thinned by approximately 1 metre per year on an average between 2011 and 2020.
  • Greenland and Antarctica lost 38% more ice during the period than during the 2001-2010 period

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Glaciers shrank 1 m a year in a decade: WMO

  • The 2011-2020 decade, though warmest ever recorded in history, saw the lowest number of deaths from extreme events, said World Meteorological Organisation report, “The Global Climate 2011-2020: A Decade of Acceleration”.
  • It attributed this to an improvement in early warning system driven by improvements in forecasting and better disaster management.
  • In India, for instance, improvements in forecasting cyclone formation and the time it took to reach land have led to greater preparedness and evacuation of those most at risk.
  • The 2011-2020 decade was the first since 1950 when there was not a single short-term event with 10,000 deaths or more.
  • The report also says that this was the first decade that the depleted ozone hole visibly showed recovery.
  • Glaciers measured around the world thinned by approximately 1 metre per year on an average between 2011 and 2020.
  • Greenland and Antarctica lost 38% more ice during the period than during the 2001-2010 period

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Glaciers shrank 1 m a year in a decade: WMO

  • The 2011-2020 decade, though warmest ever recorded in history, saw the lowest number of deaths from extreme events, said World Meteorological Organisation report, “The Global Climate 2011-2020: A Decade of Acceleration”.
  • It attributed this to an improvement in early warning system driven by improvements in forecasting and better disaster management.
  • In India, for instance, improvements in forecasting cyclone formation and the time it took to reach land have led to greater preparedness and evacuation of those most at risk.
  • The 2011-2020 decade was the first since 1950 when there was not a single short-term event with 10,000 deaths or more.
  • The report also says that this was the first decade that the depleted ozone hole visibly showed recovery.
  • Glaciers measured around the world thinned by approximately 1 metre per year on an average between 2011 and 2020.
  • Greenland and Antarctica lost 38% more ice during the period than during the 2001-2010 period

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Glaciers shrank 1 m a year in a decade: WMO

  • The 2011-2020 decade, though warmest ever recorded in history, saw the lowest number of deaths from extreme events, said World Meteorological Organisation report, “The Global Climate 2011-2020: A Decade of Acceleration”.
  • It attributed this to an improvement in early warning system driven by improvements in forecasting and better disaster management.
  • In India, for instance, improvements in forecasting cyclone formation and the time it took to reach land have led to greater preparedness and evacuation of those most at risk.
  • The 2011-2020 decade was the first since 1950 when there was not a single short-term event with 10,000 deaths or more.
  • The report also says that this was the first decade that the depleted ozone hole visibly showed recovery.
  • Glaciers measured around the world thinned by approximately 1 metre per year on an average between 2011 and 2020.
  • Greenland and Antarctica lost 38% more ice during the period than during the 2001-2010 period

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Glaciers shrank 1 m a year in a decade: WMO

  • The 2011-2020 decade, though warmest ever recorded in history, saw the lowest number of deaths from extreme events, said World Meteorological Organisation report, “The Global Climate 2011-2020: A Decade of Acceleration”.
  • It attributed this to an improvement in early warning system driven by improvements in forecasting and better disaster management.
  • In India, for instance, improvements in forecasting cyclone formation and the time it took to reach land have led to greater preparedness and evacuation of those most at risk.
  • The 2011-2020 decade was the first since 1950 when there was not a single short-term event with 10,000 deaths or more.
  • The report also says that this was the first decade that the depleted ozone hole visibly showed recovery.
  • Glaciers measured around the world thinned by approximately 1 metre per year on an average between 2011 and 2020.
  • Greenland and Antarctica lost 38% more ice during the period than during the 2001-2010 period

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Glaciers shrank 1 m a year in a decade: WMO

  • The 2011-2020 decade, though warmest ever recorded in history, saw the lowest number of deaths from extreme events, said World Meteorological Organisation report, “The Global Climate 2011-2020: A Decade of Acceleration”.
  • It attributed this to an improvement in early warning system driven by improvements in forecasting and better disaster management.
  • In India, for instance, improvements in forecasting cyclone formation and the time it took to reach land have led to greater preparedness and evacuation of those most at risk.
  • The 2011-2020 decade was the first since 1950 when there was not a single short-term event with 10,000 deaths or more.
  • The report also says that this was the first decade that the depleted ozone hole visibly showed recovery.
  • Glaciers measured around the world thinned by approximately 1 metre per year on an average between 2011 and 2020.
  • Greenland and Antarctica lost 38% more ice during the period than during the 2001-2010 period
  • The Karnataka water crisis has affected more than 7,000 villages, 1,100 wards, and 220 talukas thus far.
  • The problem encompasses Mandya and Mysuru districts, where a major Cauvery river watershed and the Krishnaraja Sagar dam are located, and both important sources of water to Bengaluru.
  • Bengaluru consumes roughly 1,400 million litres a day each from the Cauvery and groundwater reserves.
  • The groundwater recharge rate is much lower while the Cauvery’s was compromised by last year’s ‘deficient’ rain.
  • Seasonal lakes have since dwindled, while perennial lakes have been strangled by concretisation and sewage.
  • Rapid growth, such as Bengaluru has had this century, and short-termism cannot coexist.
  • There is a need for circular water economy that maximises utility of every litre, reducing the city’s dependence on external sources.
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  • The Committee on Digital Competition Law, formed by the Corporate Affairs Ministry in February 2023, released its report, recommending legislation to regulate the market power of Big Tech firms like Google and Meta.
  • The Competition Act of 2002 “intervenes after the occurrence of an anti-competitive conduct”, the committee said.
  • The recommendations would better equip Competition Commission of India (CCI) to rule on competition matters for tech firms.
  • It recommends the creation of a new law, the Digital Competition Act, to “introduce an ex-ante legislation specifically applicable to large digital enterprises, to supplement the Competition Act”.
  • A draft prepared by the panel targets firms with a “significant presence” in the market for a “Core Digital Service,” terming them “Systemically Significant Digital Enterprises (SSDEs)”.
  • If a firm does not self-designate, the penalty recommended by the committee would be derived from its global turnover.
  • Prime Minister Narendra Modi witnessed a combined demonstration of indigenous defence equipment in tri-services live fire and manoeuvre exercise Bharat Shakti at Pokhran in Rajasthan.
  • Mr. Modi noted that in the last 10 years, equipment worth ₹6 lakh crore had been procured from Indian companies.
  • Over 150 defence start-ups have taken off and defence forces have given them orders worth ₹1,800 crore, he noted.
  • Exercise Bharat Shakti simulated realistic, synergised, multi-domain operations displaying integrated operational capabilities of the Indian armed forces to counter threats across land, air, sea, cyber, and space domains.
  • Top-line equipment manufactured in India was put through the paces, over a 50-minute duration, including T-90 (IM) tanks, Dhanush and Sarang artillery guns, Akash surface-to-air system, logistics drones, robotic mules, light combat aircraft and advanced light helicopters.
  • A Tejas light combat aircraft (LCA) of the Indian Air Force (IAF) crashed at Jaisalmer during an operational training sortie.
  • This is the first crash of the indigenous jet since its maiden flight on January 4, 2001.
  • The pilot ejected safely. A Court of Inquiry has been constituted to find out the cause of the accident,” the IAF said.
  • The incident took place as the tri-Service fire power demonstration exercise Bharat Shakti was under way at Pokhran.
  • The IAF currently operates two LCA squadrons and is set to add the third squadron shortly.
  • The maiden flight of the first technology demonstrator took place on January 04, 2001. It was christened the Tejas in 2003.
  • The LCA achieved initial operation clearance in December 2013 and the final operational clearance in February 2019.
  • Haryana State BJP president and MP, Nayab Singh Saini, was sworn in as the new Chief Minister of the State after Manohar Lal and his Council of Ministers resigned as the strained ruling coalition of the BJP and the Jannayak Janta Party (JJP) broke apart, amid differences over seat-sharing for the Lok Sabha election.
  • In the 90-member Assembly, the BJP has 41 MLAs and support from six Independents and the lone MLA of the Haryana Lokhit Party. The JJP has 10 legislators. The majority mark in the Assembly is 46.
  • The new Chief Minister inducted five MLAs into the Cabinet.
  • Mr. Saini is an Other Backward Class (OBC) leader.
  • OBCs account for around 40% of the State’s population.
  • The Supreme Court urged Centre to give Kerala a one-time package to tide over its current financial crisis as a “special case” before March 31, 2024.
  • A Bench headed by Justice Surya Kant said the Centre could make up for it in the next financial year by introducing stricter conditions for financial aid to the State.
  • Kerala had moved the Supreme Court in an original suit accusing the Union government of violating the federal structure of governance and causing “severe damage to the economy of a small State with meagre resources” by limiting its borrowing powers.
  • The State said the arbitrary limitations set by the Centre had brought it to the brink of a financial emergency.
  • The Centre had hit back by accusing Kerala of being “one of the most financially unhealthy States”.
  • The Centre’s note had highlighted that debts run by States affected the credit rating of the whole country.
  • Oppenheimer swept the board at the Oscars, Hollywood’s biggest night of the year, with seven awards including best picture and best director, triumphant year for filmmaker Christopher Nolan.
  • Nolan’s masterful drama about the father of the atomic bomb,
  • Robert Downey Jr. was recognised for his stellar performance as J. Robert Oppenheimer’s political nemesis Lewis Strauss.
  • It seemed fitting that the story of the development of nuclear weapons was recognized on a night where the drumbeat of war was never far away.
  • The other huge smash of 2023, Greta Gerwig’s pop feminist blockbuster Barbie, featured heavily throughout the gala in Los Angeles.
  • The movie, which grossed $1.4 billion at the box office, only won one Oscar for best original song.
  • Several nominees wore lapel pins calling for a ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
  • Nearly 300 students were abducted from their school in Nigeria’s northwest, riddled with Islamic extremists and armed gangs.
  • The mass kidnapping in Kuriga was the third in northern Nigeria in a week; with 15 children abducted from another school, and a few days earlier 200 people abducted.
  • The kidnappings are a stark reminder of the security crisis plaguing Africa’s most populous country.
  • No group claimed responsibility for any of the recent abductions.
  • But Islamic extremists waging an insurgency in the northeast are suspected of carrying out the kidnapping in Borno.
  • In 2014, Islamic extremists abducted more than 200 schoolgirls from Borno’s Chibok, sparking the global #BringBackOurGirls social media campaign.
  • Atleast 1,400 Nigerian students have so far been abducted from schools. Some are still held captive, including 100 of Chibok girls.
  • The sudden and unexpected resignation of Election Commissioner (EC) Arun Goel, barely a week before announcement of Lok Sabha election, came as a surprise to many.
  • Insiders in the poll body have said that apparent differences emerged between Mr. Goel and Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Rajiv Kumar during their visit to West Bengal to oversee poll preparations earlier in march 2024.
  • Mr. Goel sent his resignation to the President of India without informing the CEC.
  • The two vacancies in the Election Commission, created by the resignation of Arun Goel and the retirement of Anup Chandra Pandey, are likely to be filled by March 15, 2024.
  • The Supreme Court declared the electoral bond scheme introduced by the BJP government in 2018 that allowed large-scale anonymous corporate contributions to political parties unconstitutional.
  • It ordered State Bank of India, which alone can issue electoral bonds, to immediately cease issuing bonds and provide up-to-date details of such contributions since April 2019 for publication on the Election Commission’s website.
  • It ruled that voters could not be kept in the dark about huge donations to political parties.
  • The bench held that secret corporate funding of political parties, possibly for a quid pro quo, breached voters’ right to information, adversely impacted purity of free and fair elections.
  • The order did not interfere with the existing scheme of allowing anonymous donations to political parties up to an amount of Rs 20,000 by any individual or company.
  • Apart from the full disclosure mandate, the court also brought back the 2013 cap of 7.5% of average net profit of a company in the last three years on corporate donations.
  • The judgment invalidated the electoral bond scheme and the enabling amendments carried out in the Finance Act, 2017, Representation of the People Act, Companies Act and Income Tax Act.
  • BJP expressed respect for the verdict but stood by electoral bonds, saying they were introduced with an objective to reduce the role of black money in politics.
  • Indian troops stationed in the Maldives have begun withdrawing from the island nation, its defence authorities said, in line with President Mohamed Muizzu’s ‘India out’ promise to his supporters.
  • Ministry of External Affairs said a technical team from India had reached the Maldives to replace the troops that were stationed to operate the India-gifted aircraft and coppers.
  • Some 25 Indian troops deployed in the southernmost atoll of Addu left the archipelago ahead of March 10, 2024.
  • The remaining military personnel are expected to pull out in batches, before May 10, 2024.
  • The move comes even as the Maldives seeks to strengthen strategic ties with China.
  • Maldives Defence Ministry recently signed a pact with China, seeking military assistance and “stronger bilateral ties”.
  • The agreement would enable the Maldives to receive non-lethal military equipment and military training from China.
  • China said it “strongly deplores” Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent visit to Arunachal Pradesh and raised concerns with India.
  • On March 9, 2024, Mr. Modi inaugurated a number of development projects, including the Sela Tunnel, an-all weather strategic link for Tawang and Kameng districts, near the Line of Actual Control (LAC).
  • Built at a height of 13,000 feet, the 1.5-km Sela Tunnel is expected to aid development in border villages and allow for quicker military troops and hardware deployment at the boundary with China,.
  • China calls Arunachal Pradesh, “Zangnan”, as a Chinese territory.
  • India, which has full control of the State, has always asserted the whole of Arunachal Pradesh as India’s sovereign territory. “
  • Since the stand-off began in 2020, India and China have held 21 rounds of senior military commander talks on the LAC, and several rounds of of multi-ministerial Working Mechanism on Consultation and Coordination (WMCC) on border affairs, and negotiated a détente on five of seven friction points along boundary in Ladakh.
  • India signed a free trade agreement (FTA) with four European countries — Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, and Switzerland — with a binding commitment to invest $100 billion in India producing 1 million jobs within 15 years.
  • The Trade and Economic Partnership Agreement (TEPA) marks the second such full-fledged FTA signed after India’s agreement with the United Arab Emirates, with considerable tariff reductions, increase market access, and simplify customs procedures.
  • The European Free Trade Association (EFTA) countries, which are separate from the European Union, said that, for the first time, the FTA also included a chapter on commitments to human rights and sustainable development.
  • The agreement will come into force after ratification by the EFTA states according to their parliamentary procedures, expected possibly by the end of the year.
  • The Indore Bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court directed the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to conduct a scientific survey of Bhojshala Temple-Kamal Maula Mosque complex in Dhar district.
  • The court said a study was necessary to “demystify” the nature of the complex.
  • The site is an ASI-protected 11th-century monument.
  • Under an agreement with the ASI, puja is performed in the temple on Tuesday and namaz offered on Friday.
  • A writ petition demandS that the Bhojshala complex be handed over to the Hindus and Muslims be stopped from offering namaz there.
  • Court ordered “scientific investigation, survey, and excavation, through latest methods like GPR-GPS, carbon dating, etc” by ASI.
  • The maintainability of the suit has been challenged citing principle of res judiciata (that a judged matter may not be re-litigated).
  • A similar writ petition was dismissed by the High Court’s Principal Bench two decades ago in 2003.
  • The Supreme Court asked Attorney-General R. Venkataramani to take instructions from the government on a report submitted by the court-appointed Justice Gita Mittal committee highlighting recent “worrying” happenings in Manipur, which had been rocked by violence in May 2023.
  • The committee was formed to oversee relief activities in Manipur.
  • Supreme Court also sought status reports from the Manipur government, the CBI, and the National Investigation Agency with respect to their investigations of cases connected to the violence.
  • In August 2023, Supreme Court had ordered court proceedings related to the some Manipur violence cases be shifted to Assam.
  • Justice Mittal committee report highlights, “all relief activities having stopped”, “protests becoming armed protests”, “Deputy Commissioner’s office burnt down along with relief materials”, and sightings of “worrying public notices”.
  • Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated ‘One Station, One Product’ (OSOP) stalls at 205 railway stations.
  • The OSOP scheme promotes the ‘Local for Vocal’ vision of the Government of India.
  • It provides a market for local/indigenous products and creates additional income generation opportunities for the marginalised sections of society.
  • The pilot of the scheme was started in March 2022.
  • OSOP include artefacts made by indigenous tribes, handlooms by local weavers, handicrafts, zari-zardozi work on clothes, or spices tea, coffee and other processed/semi processed food item.
  • Product categories, under this scheme, include the following:
  1. Handicrafts/ Artefacts
  2. Textiles and Handlooms
  3. Traditional Garments
  4. Local agricultural produce
  • Cheetah ‘Gaminigave birth to five cubs in Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh, taking the total number of cheetahs in the country to 26, Union Minister of Forests Bhupender Yadav said.
  • Female cheetah Gamini, aged about 5 years, brought from Tswalu Kalahari Reserve, South Africa, has given birth to 5 cubs.
  • The number of cheetah cubs born in India now stands at 13.
  • This is the fourth cheetah litter on Indian soil and the first litter of cheetahs brought from South Africa.
  • There are an estimated 7,396 golden langurs in India, the latest survey of the primate has revealed.
  • The entire distribution range of the golden langur (Trachypithecus geei) covers the Manas Biosphere Reserve and all fragmented forests in the western part of Assam.
  • Manas Biosphere Reserve, includes Ripu Reserved Forest — a major part of it was recently upgraded to Raimona National Park – Chirang Reserve Forest, Manas Reserve Forest, and Manas National Park up to the western bank of the Manas River.
  • The survey report underlined an unstable situation in the fragmented habitats of the golden langurs, particularly due to the absence of non-breeding all-male bands.
  • There is a need for corridor linkage among the fragmented habitats through plantations and canopy bridges to offset potential threats the primates face from anthropogenic interactions.
  • The death of a second Indian lured into working with the Russian military in the Russia-Ukraine conflict was confirmed.
  • The two men were from Surat and from Hyderabad; their bodies are yet to be repatriated. Others have been seriously injured.
  • Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) raiding visa recruiters across India and filed cases against them for human trafficking and for duping people into travelling to Russia where they were coerced into dangerous jobs.
  • The government needs to explain why it has not been able to make the case to bring back all the men more forcefully with the Russian authorities, despite good relations with Moscow.
  • It has also dodged questions on why it has simultaneously green-lighted a massive recruitment drive to Israel, another conflict zone.
  • Nearly 300 students were abducted from their school in Nigeria’s northwest, riddled with Islamic extremists and armed gangs.
  • The mass kidnapping in Kuriga was the third in northern Nigeria in a week; with 15 children abducted from another school, and a few days earlier 200 people abducted.
  • The kidnappings are a stark reminder of the security crisis plaguing Africa’s most populous country.
  • No group claimed responsibility for any of the recent abductions.
  • But Islamic extremists waging an insurgency in the northeast are suspected of carrying out the kidnapping in Borno.
  • In 2014, Islamic extremists abducted more than 200 schoolgirls from Borno’s Chibok, sparking the global #BringBackOurGirls social media campaign.
  • At least 1,400 Nigerian students have so far been abducted from schools. Some are still held captive, including 100 of Chibok girls.
  • Just days ahead of the announcement of Lok Sabha election, the Union Home Ministry notified the Citizenship Amendment Rules, 2024 that would enable the implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) passed by Parliament in 2019.
  • Though the law facilitates citizenship to undocumented people belonging to Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Parsi, Christian, and Jain communities from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan, the rules state that applicants will have to provide six types of documents and specify the “date of entry” into India.
  • The list of documents includes birth certificate, tenancy records, identity papers, any licence, or educational certificate issued by a government authority in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.
  • Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the successful test-firing of Agni-5 ballistic missile with Multiple Independently Targetable Re-entry Vehicle (MIRV) technology by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) under Mission Divyastra.
  • The flight test was carried out from Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Island in Odisha.
  • MIRV technology means single missile can carry multiple warheads
  • With this test India has joined the select group of nations who have MIRV capability,
  • The Agni series of missiles constitute the backbone of India’s nuclear weapons delivery.
  • Portugal’s parliamentary election results saw far-right Chega, founded in 2019, emerge as the third largest party, with 17% votes.
  • Chega (meaning Enough) ran a campaign promising to “clean up Portugal”, clamp down on immigration and implement measures such as chemical castration for some sex offenders.
  • The Socialist government, led by Goan-origin Prime Minister António Costa, collapsed in 2023 amid investigations into the government’s handling of mining and hydrocarbon projects.
  • After the police raided government offices, Mr. Costa resigned.
  • Now, Social Democratic Party is likely to form minority government.
  • The country is grappling with persistent low wages and higher inflation, and housing prices have doubled in less than a decade.
  • Portugal has also seen protests over lack of access to health care.
  • China, Iran and Russia began a joint naval drill known as “Marine Security Belt 2024” in the Gulf of Oman, a crucial waterway.
  • China sent the guided-missile destroyer Urumqi and the guided-missile frigate Linyi to the exercise.
  • Russia’s forces are being led by the Varyag, a Slava-class cruiser.
  • The three nations’ drill — their fourth since 2019 — was also meant to improve trade, confront “piracy and terrorism, support to humanitarian activities and the exchange of information in the field of rescue,” among other goals.
  • Iran has stepped up its military cooperation with Beijing and Moscow in response to regional tensions with the U.S., including the supply of military drones to Russia now being used in Moscow’s war on Ukraine.
  • Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Oman, Pakistan and South Africa are observers of the drill.
  • U.S. has blamed many Gulf of Oman attacks since 2019 on Iran.
  • Onions and garlic both contain derivatives of sulphur-containing amino acids.
  • When an onion is sliced, one of these compounds, S-1-propenyl-cysteine sulphoxide, is decomposed by an enzyme to form a volatile compound called propanethial-S-oxide.
  • This is the irritant, or lacrimator (the name for any substance that causes tears to flow).
  • When the compound comes in contact with water – in this case in your eyes – it hydrolyses to propanal, sulphuric acid, and hydrogen sulphide.
  • A hydrolysis is a chemical reaction in which a water molecule is used to break chemical bonds.
  • Tearfully, the eyes try to dilute the acid.
  • However, it is these same sulphur compounds that produce the nice aroma when onions are being cooked.
  • Recently, India loaded its long-delayed Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR) vessel, coming to the cusp of stage II — powered by uranium and plutonium of its three-stage nuclear programme.
  • By stage III, India hopes to use its vast reserves of thorium.
  • But the large-scale use of nuclear power is accompanied by a difficult problem: waste management.
  • In a fission reactor, when uranium-235 (U-235) nucleus absorbs a neutron, it fission to barium-144, krypton-89, and 3 neutrons.
  • If the ‘debris’ (barium-144 and krypton-89) constitute elements that can’t undergo fission, they become nuclear waste.
  • Handling the spent fuel is the main challenge — it is hot and radioactive, and needs to be kept underwater for a few decades.
  • Once cooled, U.S. had 69,682 tonnes (as of 2015), Canada 54,000 tonnes (2016), and Russia 21,362 tonnes (2014it is transferred to dry casks for longer-term storage.
  • Elon Musk said he would make his Grok chatbot, a rival to ChatGPT, open source as his feud with OpenAI deepens.
  • The multi-billionaire unveiled Grok late in 2023 as he attempts to catch up with OpenAI which he helped create in 2015 along with its CEO Sam Altman, providing key financing in its early days.

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Glaciers shrank 1 m a year in a decade: WMO

  • The 2011-2020 decade, though warmest ever recorded in history, saw the lowest number of deaths from extreme events, said World Meteorological Organisation report, “The Global Climate 2011-2020: A Decade of Acceleration”.
  • It attributed this to an improvement in early warning system driven by improvements in forecasting and better disaster management.
  • In India, for instance, improvements in forecasting cyclone formation and the time it took to reach land have led to greater preparedness and evacuation of those most at risk.
  • The 2011-2020 decade was the first since 1950 when there was not a single short-term event with 10,000 deaths or more.
  • The report also says that this was the first decade that the depleted ozone hole visibly showed recovery.
  • Glaciers measured around the world thinned by approximately 1 metre per year on an average between 2011 and 2020.
  • Greenland and Antarctica lost 38% more ice during the period than during the 2001-2010 period

All

Glaciers shrank 1 m a year in a decade: WMO

  • The 2011-2020 decade, though warmest ever recorded in history, saw the lowest number of deaths from extreme events, said World Meteorological Organisation report, “The Global Climate 2011-2020: A Decade of Acceleration”.
  • It attributed this to an improvement in early warning system driven by improvements in forecasting and better disaster management.
  • In India, for instance, improvements in forecasting cyclone formation and the time it took to reach land have led to greater preparedness and evacuation of those most at risk.
  • The 2011-2020 decade was the first since 1950 when there was not a single short-term event with 10,000 deaths or more.
  • The report also says that this was the first decade that the depleted ozone hole visibly showed recovery.
  • Glaciers measured around the world thinned by approximately 1 metre per year on an average between 2011 and 2020.
  • Greenland and Antarctica lost 38% more ice during the period than during the 2001-2010 period

All

Glaciers shrank 1 m a year in a decade: WMO

  • The 2011-2020 decade, though warmest ever recorded in history, saw the lowest number of deaths from extreme events, said World Meteorological Organisation report, “The Global Climate 2011-2020: A Decade of Acceleration”.
  • It attributed this to an improvement in early warning system driven by improvements in forecasting and better disaster management.
  • In India, for instance, improvements in forecasting cyclone formation and the time it took to reach land have led to greater preparedness and evacuation of those most at risk.
  • The 2011-2020 decade was the first since 1950 when there was not a single short-term event with 10,000 deaths or more.
  • The report also says that this was the first decade that the depleted ozone hole visibly showed recovery.
  • Glaciers measured around the world thinned by approximately 1 metre per year on an average between 2011 and 2020.
  • Greenland and Antarctica lost 38% more ice during the period than during the 2001-2010 period

All

Glaciers shrank 1 m a year in a decade: WMO

  • The 2011-2020 decade, though warmest ever recorded in history, saw the lowest number of deaths from extreme events, said World Meteorological Organisation report, “The Global Climate 2011-2020: A Decade of Acceleration”.
  • It attributed this to an improvement in early warning system driven by improvements in forecasting and better disaster management.
  • In India, for instance, improvements in forecasting cyclone formation and the time it took to reach land have led to greater preparedness and evacuation of those most at risk.
  • The 2011-2020 decade was the first since 1950 when there was not a single short-term event with 10,000 deaths or more.
  • The report also says that this was the first decade that the depleted ozone hole visibly showed recovery.
  • Glaciers measured around the world thinned by approximately 1 metre per year on an average between 2011 and 2020.
  • Greenland and Antarctica lost 38% more ice during the period than during the 2001-2010 period

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Glaciers shrank 1 m a year in a decade: WMO

  • The 2011-2020 decade, though warmest ever recorded in history, saw the lowest number of deaths from extreme events, said World Meteorological Organisation report, “The Global Climate 2011-2020: A Decade of Acceleration”.
  • It attributed this to an improvement in early warning system driven by improvements in forecasting and better disaster management.
  • In India, for instance, improvements in forecasting cyclone formation and the time it took to reach land have led to greater preparedness and evacuation of those most at risk.
  • The 2011-2020 decade was the first since 1950 when there was not a single short-term event with 10,000 deaths or more.
  • The report also says that this was the first decade that the depleted ozone hole visibly showed recovery.
  • Glaciers measured around the world thinned by approximately 1 metre per year on an average between 2011 and 2020.
  • Greenland and Antarctica lost 38% more ice during the period than during the 2001-2010 period

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Glaciers shrank 1 m a year in a decade: WMO

  • The 2011-2020 decade, though warmest ever recorded in history, saw the lowest number of deaths from extreme events, said World Meteorological Organisation report, “The Global Climate 2011-2020: A Decade of Acceleration”.
  • It attributed this to an improvement in early warning system driven by improvements in forecasting and better disaster management.
  • In India, for instance, improvements in forecasting cyclone formation and the time it took to reach land have led to greater preparedness and evacuation of those most at risk.
  • The 2011-2020 decade was the first since 1950 when there was not a single short-term event with 10,000 deaths or more.
  • The report also says that this was the first decade that the depleted ozone hole visibly showed recovery.
  • Glaciers measured around the world thinned by approximately 1 metre per year on an average between 2011 and 2020.
  • Greenland and Antarctica lost 38% more ice during the period than during the 2001-2010 period
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Glaciers shrank 1 m a year in a decade: WMO

  • The 2011-2020 decade, though warmest ever recorded in history, saw the lowest number of deaths from extreme events, said World Meteorological Organisation report, “The Global Climate 2011-2020: A Decade of Acceleration”.
  • It attributed this to an improvement in early warning system driven by improvements in forecasting and better disaster management.
  • In India, for instance, improvements in forecasting cyclone formation and the time it took to reach land have led to greater preparedness and evacuation of those most at risk.
  • The 2011-2020 decade was the first since 1950 when there was not a single short-term event with 10,000 deaths or more.
  • The report also says that this was the first decade that the depleted ozone hole visibly showed recovery.
  • Glaciers measured around the world thinned by approximately 1 metre per year on an average between 2011 and 2020.
  • Greenland and Antarctica lost 38% more ice during the period than during the 2001-2010 period

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Glaciers shrank 1 m a year in a decade: WMO

  • The 2011-2020 decade, though warmest ever recorded in history, saw the lowest number of deaths from extreme events, said World Meteorological Organisation report, “The Global Climate 2011-2020: A Decade of Acceleration”.
  • It attributed this to an improvement in early warning system driven by improvements in forecasting and better disaster management.
  • In India, for instance, improvements in forecasting cyclone formation and the time it took to reach land have led to greater preparedness and evacuation of those most at risk.
  • The 2011-2020 decade was the first since 1950 when there was not a single short-term event with 10,000 deaths or more.
  • The report also says that this was the first decade that the depleted ozone hole visibly showed recovery.
  • Glaciers measured around the world thinned by approximately 1 metre per year on an average between 2011 and 2020.
  • Greenland and Antarctica lost 38% more ice during the period than during the 2001-2010 period

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Glaciers shrank 1 m a year in a decade: WMO

  • The 2011-2020 decade, though warmest ever recorded in history, saw the lowest number of deaths from extreme events, said World Meteorological Organisation report, “The Global Climate 2011-2020: A Decade of Acceleration”.
  • It attributed this to an improvement in early warning system driven by improvements in forecasting and better disaster management.
  • In India, for instance, improvements in forecasting cyclone formation and the time it took to reach land have led to greater preparedness and evacuation of those most at risk.
  • The 2011-2020 decade was the first since 1950 when there was not a single short-term event with 10,000 deaths or more.
  • The report also says that this was the first decade that the depleted ozone hole visibly showed recovery.
  • Glaciers measured around the world thinned by approximately 1 metre per year on an average between 2011 and 2020.
  • Greenland and Antarctica lost 38% more ice during the period than during the 2001-2010 period

All

Glaciers shrank 1 m a year in a decade: WMO

  • The 2011-2020 decade, though warmest ever recorded in history, saw the lowest number of deaths from extreme events, said World Meteorological Organisation report, “The Global Climate 2011-2020: A Decade of Acceleration”.
  • It attributed this to an improvement in early warning system driven by improvements in forecasting and better disaster management.
  • In India, for instance, improvements in forecasting cyclone formation and the time it took to reach land have led to greater preparedness and evacuation of those most at risk.
  • The 2011-2020 decade was the first since 1950 when there was not a single short-term event with 10,000 deaths or more.
  • The report also says that this was the first decade that the depleted ozone hole visibly showed recovery.
  • Glaciers measured around the world thinned by approximately 1 metre per year on an average between 2011 and 2020.
  • Greenland and Antarctica lost 38% more ice during the period than during the 2001-2010 period

All

Glaciers shrank 1 m a year in a decade: WMO

  • The 2011-2020 decade, though warmest ever recorded in history, saw the lowest number of deaths from extreme events, said World Meteorological Organisation report, “The Global Climate 2011-2020: A Decade of Acceleration”.
  • It attributed this to an improvement in early warning system driven by improvements in forecasting and better disaster management.
  • In India, for instance, improvements in forecasting cyclone formation and the time it took to reach land have led to greater preparedness and evacuation of those most at risk.
  • The 2011-2020 decade was the first since 1950 when there was not a single short-term event with 10,000 deaths or more.
  • The report also says that this was the first decade that the depleted ozone hole visibly showed recovery.
  • Glaciers measured around the world thinned by approximately 1 metre per year on an average between 2011 and 2020.
  • Greenland and Antarctica lost 38% more ice during the period than during the 2001-2010 period

All

Glaciers shrank 1 m a year in a decade: WMO

  • The 2011-2020 decade, though warmest ever recorded in history, saw the lowest number of deaths from extreme events, said World Meteorological Organisation report, “The Global Climate 2011-2020: A Decade of Acceleration”.
  • It attributed this to an improvement in early warning system driven by improvements in forecasting and better disaster management.
  • In India, for instance, improvements in forecasting cyclone formation and the time it took to reach land have led to greater preparedness and evacuation of those most at risk.
  • The 2011-2020 decade was the first since 1950 when there was not a single short-term event with 10,000 deaths or more.
  • The report also says that this was the first decade that the depleted ozone hole visibly showed recovery.
  • Glaciers measured around the world thinned by approximately 1 metre per year on an average between 2011 and 2020.
  • Greenland and Antarctica lost 38% more ice during the period than during the 2001-2010 period
geo

The East African Rift

Geography – Physical | 16-Mar-2023

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The East African Rift

Geography – Physical | 16-Mar-2023

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The East African Rift

Geography – Physical | 16-Mar-2023

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The East African Rift

Geography – Physical | 16-Mar-2023

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The East African Rift

Geography – Physical | 16-Mar-2023

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The East African Rift

Geography – Physical | 16-Mar-2023

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The East African Rift

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