రికార్డు: నూతన గరిష్ఠానికి విదేశీ మారకం నిల్వలు - ఫారెక్న్ నిల్వల గణాంకాలు

దేశీయంగా విదేశీ మారకం నిల్వలు ఈ వారం జీవనకాల గరిష్ఠ స్థాయికి చేరుకున్నాయి. మొత్తం విదేశీ మారకం నిల్వలు 453.12 బిలియన్ డాలర్లకు చేరినట్లు ఆర్బీఐ గణాంకాలు చెబుతున్నాయి.

విదేశీ మారకం నిల్వలు

Published : Dec 13, 2019, 8:02 PM IST

దేశంలో విదేశీ మారక నిల్వలు ఈ వారం రికార్డు స్థాయికి చేరుకున్నాయి. గత వారంతో పోలిస్తే.. 2.342 బిలియన్‌ డాలర్లు పెరిగి 453.12 బిలియన్‌ డాలర్లకు చేరుకున్నాయని ఆర్బీఐ గణాంకాల్లో తెలిసింది.

గతవారం 2.48 బిలియన్‌ డాలర్లు పెరిగిన ఫోరెక్స్ నిల్వలు.. 451.08 డాలర్లకు చేరుకున్నట్లు ఆర్బీఐ విడుదల చేసిన వార నివేదిక పేర్కొంది.

విదేశీ కరెన్సీ ఆస్తుల వృద్ధి కారణంగా నిల్వలు పెరిగినట్లు తెలుస్తోంది. మొత్తం నిల్వలలో ఇవే ప్రధానమైన భాగం. అటు ఈ వారంలో బంగారం నిల్వలూ 430 మిలియన్‌ డాలర్లు పెరిగి 27.07 బిలియన్‌ డాలర్లకు చేరుకున్నాయి.

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WORLD MELTING GLACIERS
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS / NEW YORK UNIVERSITY / BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY / NASA/OIB/Jeremy Harbeck/JPL-Caltech / COP25 HB TVE / EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY (ESA)
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LENGTH: 7:30
SHOTLIST:
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Helheim Glacier, eastern Greenland - 14 August 2019
1. Wide aerial of one of New York University's Greenland base camps with Helheim Glacier in the background ++DRONE SHOT++
2. Various of Helheim Glacier seen through helicopter windows
3. Mid of air and ocean scientist David Holland and colleague talking
4. Close of helicopter GPS
5. Close of researcher
6. Wide of large cracks in the ice seen from the helicopter window as pilot searches for landing spot
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Helheim Glacier, eastern Greenland - 14 August 2019
7. SOUNDBITE (English) David Holland, NYU Air and ocean scientist:
"And so this is Helheim Glacier far off to my right, in front the mélange is the Helheim Fjord. And this glacier has retreated more than 10 kilometres or so in the last decade or so from that position far off from to my left to where you see it today."
8. David Holland points to the edge of glacier, UPSOUND(English) "So that's where the ice is grounded on the sea floor down about 800 metres."
9. Flowers on the rock
VNR - New York University +mute+
Helheim Glacier, eastern Greenland - June 22, 2018
10. Various of calving event at Helheim Glacier - shows tall thin sections called pinnacle bergs crashing into the sea and a wide flat tabular iceberg drifting away (video is sped up by factor of 20)
VNR - BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY
Rothera Research Station, Antarctica - February 2019
11. Wide of British Antarctic Survey Twin Otter aircraft at runway +mute+
12. Wide of plane preparing for takeoff +mute+
13. Wide of runway with plane in flight +mute+
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Thwaites Glacier, Antarctica - February 2019
14. Various of aerials of surface of glacier taken from plane +mute+
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McMurdo Science Station, Antarctica - 10 December 2019
++Interview via video phone++
15 . SOUNDBITE (English) David Holland, NYU Air and ocean scientist:
"Large glaciers are retreating, we can detect this with satellite, effectively cameras in space, and we're seeing a very large signal of melt coming from this one particular glacier, out in West Antarctica, called Thwaites. And we also happen to know there's warm water in the vicinity of this glacier, so it looks like a similar story - that unusually warm water has approached the perimeter of the Antarctic ice sheet, and it's causing a significant melt back."
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Thwaites Glacier, Antarctica - January 2019
16. Still aerial of Thwaites glacier +mute+
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17. Animation showing change in surface height at Thwaites Glacier between 2011-2017 with sinking areas in red and rising areas in blue ++mute++
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Thwaites Glacier, Antarctica - February 2019
18. Various of aerials from plane of surface of glacier
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South Shetland Islands, Antarctica - 26 January 2014
19. Penguin on snow covered ice
20. Seal lying on snow covered ice
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Antarctica - 24 January 2014
21. A group of international scientists navigating in small boats through broken ice (David Holland was not part of this expedition)
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McMurdo Science Station, Antarctica - 10 December 2019
Interview via video phone
22. SOUNDBITE (English) David Holland, NYU Air and ocean scientist:
"That glacier is holding back several other glaciers of the West Antarctic ice sheet. So all totalled, it is conceivable - not that it will happen, but it could happen - that up to three metres of global sea level could be unleashed onto us."
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Kulusuk, Greenland - 15 August 2019
23. Boat navigating between icebergs at night ++MUTE++
24. Iceberg seen from boat
25. Wide of icebergs
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Kulusuk, Kangerlussuaq Glacier, Greenland - 14 August 2019
26. Various aerials of the melting ice
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Alexandria, Egypt - 4 August 2019
27. Various of loader submerging tetrapod blocks underwater in order to help in breaking waves before reaching the sea shore, high rises in background
28. Mid of Alexandria's corniche appearing behind blocks
29. Wide of waves hitting blocks placed to raise the level of corniche above water level
30. Wide of protection project around the Citadel of Qaitbay
COP 25 HB TVE – AP CLIENTS ONLY
Madrid, Spain – 2 December 2019
31. Spain's interim Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez talking to COP25 President Carolina Schmidt
32. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change chairperson Hoesung Lee, with Sánchez, Schmidt, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, and UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Patricia Espinosa on stage
33. Sánchez walking to lectern
COP25 HB TVE - AP CLIENTS ONLY
Madrid, Spain - 11 December 2019
34. SOUNDBITE (English) Greta Thunberg, climate activist:
"And why is it so important to stay below one point five degrees? Because even on one degree, people are dying from the climate crisis because that is what the United Science calls for, to avoid destabilising the climate so that we have the best possible chance to avoid setting off irreversible chain reactions such as melting glaciers, polar ice and thawing Arctic permafrost. Every fraction of a degree matters."
VNR - EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY (ESA)
Noordwijk, Netherlands - April 2019
35. Various of coastline, sea
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Svalbard, Norway - Recent, 2019
36. Various of Arctic landscape
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McMurdo Science Station, Antarctica - 10 December 2019
++Interview via video phone++
37. SOUNDBITE (English) David Holland, NYU Air and ocean scientist:
"A collection of all this technology and ability to get to these places is showing us that this glacier is, perhaps, unstable. It is certainly retreating now at a rapid rate. We know warm water is around it. So, what it is is it has raised itself to the point of now, using physics, mathematics and observation, it's actually credible - plausible - that this thing could cause a major change in sea level."
VNR - NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
Helheim Glacier, East Greenland - June 22, 2018
38. Wide of calving event at Helheim Glacier With audio, shown in real time
LEAD IN:
As leaders wrap up the COP 25 climate talks in Madrid (final day 13 December 2019), a leading scientist at the forefront of climate research is warning the Earth may be approaching a tipping point.
This year researchers have observed record rates of ice melt in Greenland, while in Antarctica they're worried a major glacier is starting to permanently disappear, which could cause surrounding glaciers to melt too, pushing sea levels up by as much as three metres.
STORYLINE:
From the majestic glacial expanses of Greenland, to the vast icy plains of Antarctica, scientists are busy measuring and observing the Earth's changing climate.
In Greenland in the northern summer, New York University researcher David Holland observed record-shattering heat and melting events.
At Helheim, he saw one of Greenland's fastest-retreating glaciers had shrunk about 6 miles (10 kilometres) since 2005.
Standing on the glacier, Holland explains what's already gone:
"And so this is Helheim Glacier far off to my right, in front the mélange is the Helheim Fjord. And this glacier has retreated more than 10 kilometres or so in the last decade or so from that position far off from my left to where you see it today," he says.
It's the same glacier where researchers were able to capture dramatic video of glacial calving last year.
Calving is when large chunks of ice break way from a glacier, and in the video, which here has been sped up 20 times, thin sections called pinnacle bergs crash into the sea.
A study from NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) released on 10 December 2019 shows the Greenland Ice Sheet is now melting rapidly, having lost 3.8 trillion tonnes of ice between 1992 and 2018.
Now, Holland and his team report, a glacial retreat in Antarctica appears to be underway too.
They're planning an expedition to the Thwaites glacier in West Antarctica soon.
A team from the British Antarctic Survey were able to fly over the Thwaites Glacier in February 2019, but so far this summer Holland's team have been held back by problems with their aircraft and inclement weather.
But the satellite data they have about the glacier already is not encouraging.
"Large glaciers are retreating, we can detect this with satellite, effectively cameras in space, and we're seeing a very large signal of melt coming from this one particular glacier, out in West Antarctica, called Thwaites. And we also happen to know there's warm water in the vicinity of this glacier, so it looks like a similar story - that unusually warm water has approached the perimeter of the Antarctic ice sheet, and it's causing a significant melt back," Holland explains.
Furthermore, in the case of the Thwaites glacier, because of its unique geometry, Professor Holland says the retreat - once started - might not be stoppable.
And if the Thwaites glacier was to melt entirely, it could cause sea levels worldwide to rise by as much as 1 metre, with potentially even worse consequences to follow and Holland explains "That glacier is holding back several other glaciers of the West Antarctic ice sheet. So all totalled, it is conceivable - not that it will happen, but it could happen - that up to three metres of global sea level could be unleashed on us.".
Indeed, sea level rise from melting glaciers is a growing source of concern across the world, with the Earth's glaciers already melting faster than scientists had thought.
One city threatened by sea level rise is the port of Alexandria in northern Egypt which is already experiencing the consequences of rising seas, which threaten to inundate poorer neighborhoods and archaeological sites, prompting authorities to erect concrete barriers out at sea to hold back the tide.
A study, published in the journal Nature in April of this year, showed glaciers worldwide are losing 369 billion tonnes of snow and ice each year.
It found inland masses of snow compressed into ice are shrinking 18 percent faster than an international panel of scientists had calculated would be the case back in 2013.
And the study also found their melt is accelerating due to global warming, adding more water to already rising seas.
The concerns come as climate activists urge world leaders to do more to drive down carbon emissions.
Speaking at the COP25 conference in Madrid, 16-year-old Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg highlighted the risks, if global temperatures rise above 1.5 degrees Celsius.
"And why is it so important to stay below one point five degrees? Because even on one degree, people are dying from the climate crisis because that is what the United Science calls for, to avoid destabilising the climate so that we have the best possible chance to avoid setting off irreversible chain reactions such as melting glaciers, polar ice and thawing Arctic permafrost. Every fraction of a degree matters," Thunberg said.
Since 1961, the world has lost 10.6 trillion tonnes of ice and snow (9.6 trillion metric tonnes), enough to cover the lower 48 U.S. states in about four feet of ice according to NASA.
And if the Thwaites glacier in Antarctica is now melting at the rates that satellite imaging suggest, Holland says, the Earth's climate could irreparably change.
"Collection of all this technology and ability to get to these places is showing us that this glacier is, perhaps, unstable. It is certainly retreating now at a rapid rate. We know warm water is around it. So, what it is is it has raised itself to the point of now, using physics, mathematics and observation, it's actually credible - plausible - that this thing could cause a major change in sea level" .
Greenland and Antarctica are home to the world's only permanent ice sheets.
According to NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA), increasing rates of global warming have accelerated Greenland's ice mass loss from 25 billion tonnes per year in the 1990s to a current average of 234 billion tons per year.
NASA says this means that Greenland's ice is melting on average seven times faster today than it was at the beginning of the study period.
The Greenland Ice Sheet alone holds enough water to raise the sea level by 24 feet (7.4 metres).
Holland and his team at McMurdo Station in Antarctica hope to travel to observe the Thwaites glacier in the coming weeks.
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