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Trees spit out gas from soil microbes
A study suggests that trees can act like chimneys, moving methane gas produced by soil microbes up through roots, stems and leaves before releasing it into the atmosphere. This effect could account for as much as 10% of methane emissions globally2. It could also help to explain why methane fluxes are higher than expected in wet tropical regions.
- Date:
- Feb 2010
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- Nature Vol: 463 Issue: 7283 pp: 861
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Jatropha biofuels: the true cost to Tanzania
Billed as wonder crop, the establishment of jatropha plantations on the ground in Tanzania has been far from successful, or, in some cases, ethical: a report.
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- Feb 2010
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- Ecologist pp: 1-4
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Warming can turn world more fragrant'
LONDON: A major scientific review has indicated that as a result of climate change, the world will become
- Date:
- 11/02/2010
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- Times Of India (New Delhi)
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Shelter from the storm? Use and misuse of coastal vegetation bioshields for managing natural disasters
Vegetated coastal ecosystems provide goods and services to billions of people. In the aftermath of a series of recent natural disasters, including the Indian Ocean Tsunami, Hurricane Katrina and Cyclone Nargis, coastal vegetation has been widely promoted for the purpose of reducing the impact of large storm surges and tsunami.
- Date:
- Feb 2010
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- Conservation Letters Vol: 3 Issue: 1 pp: 1-11
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Koraput to acquire global farm heritage status
BHUBANESWAR: The unique hilly floral and faunal diversity of Koraput, presumed as the origin of rice, will soon be designated a Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System (GIAHS), on the lines of World Heritage Site, by Unesco.
- Date:
- 01/02/2010
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- New Indian Express (Bhubaneswar)
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Dynamics of plant bioresources in Western Himalayan region of India – watershed based study
The dynamics of plant bioresources including agriculture is different in the hills from those in the plains. The agriculture and forestry are the two major land use types and play an important role in providing food and livelihood security.
- Date:
- Jan 2010
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- Current Science Vol: 98 Issue: 2 pp: 192-203
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Concentration of radionuclides in uranium tailings and its uptake by plants at Jaduguda, Jharkhand, India
Mining and processing of uranium ore was started in several parts of eastern Singhbhum, viz. Jaduguda, Bhatin and Narwapahar (Jharkhand) in 1968. Radioactivity in the mine tailings has to be consolidated so that it does not emanate in the atmosphere or enter the food chain.
- Date:
- Jan 2010
- Source:
- Current Science Vol: 98 Issue: 1 pp: 37-49
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Biology of brinjal
Brinjal or eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) is an important solanaceous crop of sub-tropics and tropics. The name brinjal is popular in Indian subcontinents and is derived from Arabic and Sanskrit whereas the name eggplant has been derived from the shape of the fruit of some varieties, which are white and
- Date:
- Jan 2010
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- Ministry of Science and Technology
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The velocity of climate change
As the climate changes, species will have to move if they are to remain in an area with the same average temperature. Here, this required movement — termed the velocity of temperature change — is quantified.
- Date:
- Dec 2009
- Source:
- Nature Vol: 462 Issue: 7276 pp: 1052-1056
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Species and climate change: More than just the Polar Bear
This IUCN review released in Copenhagen highlights the way climate change is adversely affecting marine, terrestrial and freshwater habitats. Arctic fox, Leatherback turtle, Beluga whale, Salmon and Ringed seal are amongst 10 species "destined to be hardest hit by climate change."
- Date:
- Dec 2009
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- IUCN
