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From Uttarakhand floods to cyclone Tauktae, a list of extreme weather events India witnessed in 2021
Fp Staff •In the first seven months of this year alone, the country of 1.3 billion people experienced two cyclones, a deadly glacier collapse in the Himalayas, a sweltering heatwave and killer floods
A round-up of India's worst climate change events in 2021
•The monsoon from June to September also brings danger from the skies. In 2019, lightning strikes killed almost 3,000 people.
Climate change may bring back viruses that were long thought to be dormant
•Thawing ground brings once frozen microorganisms, organic material and other particles to the surface that were locked away for millennia.
Scientists, using robotic kayaks, suggest that glaciers are melting underwater much faster than predicted
•This rapid melting of the glaciers has an effect on the rest of the world and is contributing to sea-level rise.
A decade from space: 13 images that show natural, technological and political changes on Earth
Tech2 News Staff •Maxar Tech, satellite imagery company, released images of some of the biggest events of the decade.
Amazon fires in Brazil are causing glaciers in South America's Andes to melt even faster
•The Amazon rainforest burns every year, but the past few months saw the numbers increase by more than 70 percent.
More than two-thirds of the populations in China, India, Thailand are at risk due to rising sea levels
•Major storms that used to happen once a century will happen on average once a year in many places.
'Victor'ious eagle to record melting of Alp's glaciers with a camera mounted on his back
•Victor will embark upon five flights this week over the Alps, with each flight lasting three to five kilometres.
Humankind needs to rescue the oceans to rescue itself, scientists warns in UN IPCC Oceans report
•Halting global warming, won't stop the major changes underway in the world's oceans, but will buy time to understand future impacts and how to adapt.
Quickly melting glaciers spell water trouble for the world's highest capital in Bolivia
•Andean snowcaps. which fill the city's reservoirs, are disappearing at a rate that has alarmed scientists