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The United Nations (UN) has warned that global temperatures might momentarily break the 1.5 degrees Celsius threshold over pre-industrial levels within the next five years. The report few years after the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, where participant countries agreed to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius over levels measured between 1850 and 1900, and to 1.5 degrees Celsius, if possible. According to a new climate update released by the UN's World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), for at least one of…

The oceans that surround us are transforming. As our climate changes, the world's waters are shifting too, with abnormalities evident not only in the ocean's temperature, but also its structure, currents, and even its color.  As these changes manifest, the usually stable environment of the ocean is becoming more unpredictable and erratic, and in some ways the phenomenon is akin to the ocean losing its memory, scientists suggest."Ocean memory, the persistence of ocean conditions, is a major source of predictability in the…

This illustration shows that during El Niño/positive IOD years, weak equatorial winds from the west lead to weak disturbances. During La Niña/negative IOD years, conversely, strong equatorial winds from the west lead to more cyclone formation by providing the initial spin-up. Credit: Florida Institute of Technology El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), the climate pattern involving warming or cooling sea surface temperatures…

Elon Musk isn’t the only entrepreneur with big ideas about how to fix social media.A growing number of startups are emerging to challenge the status quo. Many of them are rooted in their founders’ experiences within the industry’s leading giant, Facebook’s parent company, now known as Meta Platforms Inc. FB 5.37% Nearly a decade ago, then-WhatsApp executive Neeraj Arora helped negotiate the $22 billion sale…

Telecom operator Bharti Airtel may take lead in hiking mobile call and services rates this year as it looks to increase average revenue per user to Rs. 200, a top official of the company said.Airtel was the first telecom player to raise mobile services rates in the range of 18-25 percent in November 2021.The average revenue per user (ARPU), an indicator of a telco's profitability, of Airtel was at Rs.163 in October-December 2021, down 2.2 percent year-on-year."I do expect a tariff hike sometime in 2022. I don't think it's…

Samsung has continued to lead the smartphone market despite a fall of 11 percent year-on-year in the worldwide shipments in the first quarter of 2022, according to a report. The South Korean company introduced its Galaxy S22 series in the quarter that has apparently helped grow its market share. After Samsung, Apple retained its second position in the global market. Both Samsung and Apple expanded their market share in the quarter. However, top-three Chinese players — Xiaomi, Oppo, and Vivo — saw declines in their…