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Colombia

• Global warming takes malaria risk to hilly areas

  Those living in the mountains or higher altitudes across the world will soon face the wrath of the world's deadliest vector borne disease — malaria. What is more worrying is that the severity of the disease is expected to be far more because the populations in the mountains lack protective immunity against the disease. Researchers estimated that a 1 degree celsius temperature increase could result in an additional 3 million malaria cases annually, in under-15 population.

  • 10/03/2014

  • Times Of India (New Delhi)
  • • Global Warming
    • Malaria
    • Vector Borne Diseases
    • Population
    • Ethiopia
    • Colombia
    • Climate Impacts
    • Climate Change

• Magnitude 6 quake strikes Colombia: USGS

  A magnitude 6 earthquake struck Colombia on Monday, 75 miles west southwest of Arauca, the U.S. Geological Survey said. It was registered at a depth of 43 miles.

  • 18/02/2014

  • Planet Ark (Australia)
  • • Natural Disasters
    • Earthquakes
    • Colombia

• Uncertainty in the spatial distribution of tropical forest biomass: a comparison of pan-tropical maps

  Mapping the aboveground biomass of tropical forests is essential both for implementing conservation policy and reducing uncertainties in the global carbon cycle. Two medium resolution (500 m – 1000 m)

  • 26/10/2013

  • Carbon Balance and Management
  • • Tropical Forests
    • Biomass
    • Carbon Dioxide
    • REDD
    • Colombia
    • Amazon
    • Remote Sensing
    • South America
    • Deforestation
    • Climate Change

• Conflict’s harvest

  NAVIGATING Colombia’s mountainous countryside was even harder than usual for three weeks in the summer, when thousands of farmers blocked roads to protest about poor conditions in rural areas. The immediate

  • 26/10/2013

  • Economist (London)
  • • Colombia
    • Agriculture
    • Farmers
    • Croplands

• Purring monkey and vegetarian piranha among 400 new Amazon species

  Four years of scientific expeditions have found previously unknown animals and plants in world's largest tropical rainforest A purring monkey, a vegetarian piranha and a flame-patterned lizard are among

  • 23/10/2013

  • Guardian (UK)
  • • Monkey
    • Biodiversity
    • Fish
    • Tropical Forests
    • Trees
    • Amphibians
    • Reptiles
    • Birds
    • Mammals
    • Flora
    • Fauna
    • Amazon
    • Brazil
    • Bolivia
    • Peru
    • Ecuador
    • Colombia
    • Venezuela
    • Guyana

• ONGC Videsh strikes oil in Colombia

  OVL holds 70 per cent participating interest in the block at the llanos basin in Colombia ONGC Videsh Ltd (OVL), the foreign investment arm of state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC), has discovered oil on an onland block, CPO-5, in Colombia, it said in a statement on Sunday. “OVL has struck oil at two places in the first well drilled on the Block CPO-5 and produced 120-300 barrels per day on testing,” the OVL statement said. “The oil is heavy in nature with an API (American Petroleum Institute) gravity of about 14. To assess the potential and commerciality of the oil find, extended production testing will be taken up in due course for the remaining objects within the upper Mirador Formation at a depth of 9,533 feet,” the statement further said.

  • 21/01/2013

  • Business Standard (New Delhi)
  • • Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC)
    • Colombia
    • Oil Exploration
    • Petrochemical Industry
    • Energy

• Indian economy to outpace China’s by ’30: US report

  It might be hard to visualize or believe in today’s messy, gridlocked, turmoil-ridden subcontinent, but the US intelligence community in a new report released on Monday says that by 2030, a surging India,

  • 11/12/2012

  • Times Of India (New Delhi)
  • • India
    • Economy
    • China
    • United States Of America (US)
    • Economic Development
    • International Cooperation
    • Colombia
    • Egypt
    • Indonesia
    • Iran
    • South Africa
    • Mexico

• A way forward on adaptation to climate change in Colombian agriculture: perspectives towards 2050

  Policy measures regarding adaptation to climate change include efforts to adjust socio-economic and ecologic systems. Colombia has undertaken various measures in terms of climate change mitigation and

  • 01/12/2012

  • Climate Change
  • • Agriculture
    • Colombia
    • Climate Adaptation
    • Climate Impacts
    • Floods
    • Plant Diseases

• Monnet Ispat in talks for coal mine buy in Colombia

  Acquisition to feed steel plants, power projects in India Monnet Ispat and Energy Ltd (MIEL), India's second-largest coal-based sponge iron producer, is set to soon acquire majority stake in a 25-million tonne (mt) coal mine in Colombia. The Rs 1,960-crore MIEL wishes to feed its steel and captive power plants in India using the coal made available through the acquisition. “Talks are on for the acquisition; annual production capacity of the mine is 50,000 tonnes per annum,” said N C Jha, chief executive officer of Monnet’s mining business, without divulging financial details. The former Coal India chairman said the working mine had reserves of both coking and non-coking coal and the deal was likely to be clinched in a month or two.

  • 20/11/2012

  • Business Standard (New Delhi)
  • • Monnet Ispat and Energy Ltd
    • Coal
    • Mining
    • Colombia
    • Coal India
    • Iron
    • Indonesia
    • Mineral-Based Industry
    • Iron And Steel Industry

• Vaccine against dengue to be tested in India

  The world’s most effective vaccine candidate against dengue is all set for trials in India and if all goes to plan, the vaccine will be available globally by 2015. The vaccine will be tested on 120-odd

  • 19/11/2012

  • Times Of India (New Delhi)
  • • India
    • Dengue
    • Diseases
    • Preventive Medicine
    • Medical Research
    • Vector Borne Diseases
    • WHO
    • Mexico
    • Colombia
    • Honduras
    • Brazil
    • Puerto Rico
    • Philippines
    • Vietnam
    • Malaysia
    • Indonesia
    • Thailand