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The Indian government under the visionary leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is committed to reducing its aggregate greenhouse gas emissions by one billion tonnes by 2030, according to Indian Science and Technology Minister Dr Jitendra Singh. Inaugurating the three-day International Conference on Systems Analysis for Enabling Integrated Policy Making in New Delhi, Dr Singh said this. The minister said that India also aims to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels by half of the total consumption of fossil fuels by 2030. As a result of its unique geo-climate conditions, India has historically been vulnerable to natural disasters due to…

Ayman Safadi, Jordan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Minister, and Canadian International Development Minister Harjit Singh Sajjan discussed ways of expanding joint economic cooperation and taking advantage of Jordanian skills on the Canadian labor market. During their talks in Amman, Safadi and Sajjan stressed effective coordination channels in the development fields and a desire to develop strong friendly relations between the two nations. In relation to refugee-related burdens, Safadi praised Canada’s efforts to help the Kingdom in its development process and to address economic challenges. Safadi thanked Canada for its support of UNRWA, emphasizing that the agency…

In preparation for the bilateral drill maneuvers that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is hosting at the drill operations zone in Yanbu and Al-Kharj governorates, the Saudi and US marine corps forces arrived in Yanbu to participate in the Native Fury 22 drill maneuvers being held there. It includes several hypotheses and trainings between the Saudi and US forces, which are scheduled to begin this week and run for several days. The exercise aims at enhancing partnership between the Saudi forces and their US counterparts in carrying out bilateral plans.

According to the UN weather agency, many parts of the world had just experienced the third hottest July on record amid extreme heat, drought, and wildfires. Because of an intense heatwave around mid-July, temperatures across much of Europe were close to 0.4°C above the 1991-2020 average, with southwestern and western Europe being the most above-average regions. It is despite the La Nina event, which is supposed to cool the planet,” explained World Meteorological Organization (WMO) spokesperson Clare Nullis. It was one of the warmest Julys on record in some places, but not globally, she added, noting that it was “slightly…

It was early on Wednesday morning that authorities were working on a rescue procedure for a beluga whale whose life had been put in danger. This whale had strayed into the River Seine. Sea Shepherd France and a Reuters photographer witnessed the six-hour extraction of the 800 kilogram (1,760 pound) cetacean. Before local authorities confined the all-white beluga in a large lock system, it had swum nearly halfway to Paris. A refrigerated lorry is now transporting it to Ouistreham, in Normandy, where it will be placed in a salt water lock. While the first stage of the rescue operation was…

According to the Jordan Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation, foreign aid (in grants and soft loans) totaled $1.5 billion from January to July of this year. Foreign assistance includes $187.5 million as grants and $1.1 million as soft loans to support the general budget and finance high priority projects in the fields of social protection, employment, economic development and infrastructure, as well as $252.5 million additional grants for the Jordan Response Plan in response to the Syrian crisis. In coordination with all ministries and government institutions, the ministry is also allocating foreign aid for top priority development programs and…

A record amount of rain fell in Seoul and surrounding areas on Tuesday, causing the nation’s capital to flood. This resulted in flooding homes, vehicles, buildings and subway stations, according to official reports by Yonhap News Agency. Eight people have died in the flooding, and seven others are reported missing. It has been raining heavily over 100 millimetres per hour throughout parts of Seoul, the western port city of Incheon, and Gyeonggi Province, which surrounds Seoul, in the past few hours. In Seoul’s Dongjak district, precipitation per hour exceeded 141.5 millimeters, which was the highest amount of precipitation per hour…

The United Nations-supported Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) reports that around one million species are on the verge of extinction. There are a number of species listed as threatened, including giraffes, parrots, oak trees, cacti, and seaweed. The world’s giraffe population is estimated to be less than 600; the species is hunted for its meat and their habitat is degraded due to unsustainable harvesting of wood and increased agricultural demand. If humans do not interact with nature more sustainably, the current biodiversity crisis will worsen, resulting in catastrophic outcomes for humanity, according to UN experts. It…

On Sunday, a bomb dating back to World War II was detonated in northern Italy, forcing 3,000 people to evacuate for safety. The 450-kilogram bomb was spotted in the Po river near Mantua, some 160 kilometers south-east of Milan, according to the German press agency (dpa). A controlled explosion was carried out in a cave 45 kilometers away after the detonator was removed from the bomb. Sunday afternoon, near the Po river in Italy, the bomb was neutralized by controlled means. Massive fear was triggered when the bomb was discovered, which weighed 450 kilograms. Police in Borgo Virgilio immediately began…

During his remarks during an event marked by the 77th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, United Nations Secretary General, Antonio Guterres underscored the fact that it is entirely unacceptable for states possessing nuclear weapons to acknowledge the possibility of a nuclear war. “Nuclear weapons are nonsense. Three-quarters of a century later, we must ask what we’ve learned from the mushroom cloud that swelled above this city in 1945”, he urged during the solemn event at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park attended by dozens of people, including Hibakusha, young peace activists, Japan’s Prime Minister and other local authorities. World leaders…