State of the Climate in Asia 2024
<p>The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing
Environment
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Cancun: End of the road for WTO?
For farmers all over the world, the failure of the Cancun Ministerial is just another step in their long and arduous battle to retain control over their food security needsand to move towards a
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This is no fiction, mercury is rising
On the heels of a UN warning that India could become a global mercury hotspot, a study by a Delhi-based NGO says the country is becoming the dumping ground for mercury as industrialised nations phase
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'Cancun is dead! Long live WTO!'
It was neither the "Singapore issues" nor developing country protectionism that contributed to the collapse of the Cancun ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organisation. It was the unwillingness
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Steel report may revive tariff wars
The US International Trade Commission will report tomorrow on the effect that the tariffs imposed last year on steel imports have hd on the steel industry and the US economy, sparking fierce lobbying
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AP to develop 'Green Park'
As part of its vision 2020 initiative, the Andhra Pradesh government has decided to develop 'green park' for those industries which promote green technologies and products and energy efficiency
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Radical reforms needed to check pollution
The legal experts and environmentalists have stressed the need for expediting reforms in the justice delivery system and training of pollution control enforcement agencies to reduce pollution level
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Hurting Heritage
Taj or Red Fort, sarkar treats them as its own zamindari So whose heritage is it, anyway? This is the overriding question that arises from the political heat and dust of the latest controversy
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Dyke fails to check floods
Efforts to check the spillage of the Ganga waters with the help of an emergent dyke, since the finance minister's visit on 20 August, has failed. The Ganga is flowing over the 1.5 km long emergent
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Disasters to be tackled with force'
More than a year since disaster management became part of the home ministry, tall claims are being made about the preparedness to deal with natural disasters, anywhere, anytime. The basis: "Little or
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Quake-prone Japan develops rescue robots
Researchers in quake-prone Japan have developed snake-like robots capable of literally worming their way through the rubble of earthquake-destroyed houses to find trapped survivors. A prototype