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• Delhi revives artificial rain plan as AQI worsens

  Officials are collaborating with IIT Kanpur to deploy high-altitude cloud-seeding missions using substances like silver iodide to induce precipitation and settle atmospheric dust. The renewed intervention follows a persistent pollution crisis driven by low wind speeds that has pushed air quality into the very poor and severe categories across multiple monitoring stations. Further trial runs are expected to take place following the Diwali and Chhath holidays.

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• Rescuer Goes Missing Amid Cyclone Murasu-Led Heavy Rain In Telangana

  Severe weather triggered by a recent storm has escalated operational hazards for emergency response teams deployed in southern India. Operations have become increasingly precarious as intense downpours continue across affected districts. Authorities now face the compounding challenge of safeguarding rescue personnel while maintaining ongoing relief efforts.

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• Ten years of the Paris Agreement: Has the world kept its climate promises?

  A decade after nearly 200 nations enacted the landmark treaty to avert catastrophic warming, global pollution levels remain near historic peaks as progress plateaus. Although renewable adoption has reduced projected end-of-century warming to roughly 2.6 degrees Celsius, the United Nations confirmed that surpassing the critical 1.5C threshold is now unavoidable. Widening disparities among major emitters and recurring American political reversals continue to undermine coordinated international action.

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