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• Reactive nitrogen in Indian agriculture: Inputs, use efficiency and leakages

  <p>The flows of reactive N in terrestrial, aquatic and atmospheric ecosystems in India are being increasingly regulated by inputs, use efficiency and leakages of reactive N from agriculture. In the last three decades, use of reactive N in the form of chemical fertilizers has kept pace with the production of foodgrains, although the consumption is concentrated in certain areas with intensive farming.</p> <p><strong><a href="http://www.currentscience.ac.in/Downloads/article_id_094_11_1382_1393_0.pdf" target="_blank">Original Source</a></strong></p>

  • 10/06/2008

  • Current Science
  • • Land Use
    • Agriculture
    • Agricultural Inputs
    • Chemical Fertilisers
    • Animal Dung
    • Livestock
    • Oxides Of Nitrogen (NOx)
    • Climate Change
    • India

• Concerns about climate change mitigation projects: summary of findings from case studies in Brazil, India, Mexico & South Africa

  The concept of joint implementation as a way to implement climate change mitigation projects in another country has been controversial ever since its inception. Developing countries have raised numerous issues at the project-specific technical level, and broader concerns having to do with equity and burden sharing.

  • 01/05/1999

  • Environmental Science and Policy
  • • Climate Change
    • Kyoto Protocol
    • Climate Mitigation
    • Joint Implementation
    • South Africa
    • Mexico
    • Brazil
    • India
    • Developing Countries

• 24-hr water to take a decade

  It will take at least a decade more for the twin cities to get round-the-clock water supply. This was disclosed by Municipal Administration Minister Koneru Ranga Rao in the Assembly. "It is a long

  • 31/12/2005

  • Deccan Chronicle (Hyderabad)
  • • Dams
    • Irrigation

• Military Supercomputer Sets Record

  An American military supercomputer, assembled from components originally designed for video game machines, has reached a long-sought-after computing milestone by processing more than 1.026 quadrillion calculations per second. The Roadrunner supercomputer costs $133 million and will be used to study nuclear weapons. The new machine is more than twice as fast as the previous fastest supercomputer, the I.B.M. BlueGene/L, which is based at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.

  • 09/06/2008

  • New York Times (New York)
  • • Climate Change
    • Nuclear Weapons
    • United States Of America (US)

• Plugging the energy efficiency gap with climate finance

  This report examines the current role of climate finance in funding EE projects and the potential to channel funds to relevant EE projects in developing countries under the new Green Climate Fund (GCF).

  • 01/12/2012

  • International Energy Agency
  • • Energy Efficiency
    • Climate Change
    • Finance
    • Developing Countries
    • India
    • Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)
    • Carbon Market
    • Carbon Dioxide
    • Climate Mitigation
    • Copenhagen Green Climate Fund

• Tracking earth’s energy: From El Niño to global warming

  The state of knowledge and outstanding issues with respect to the global mean energy budget of planet Earth are described, along with the ability to track changes over time. Best estimates of the main

  • 01/07/2012

  • Surveys in Geophysics
  • • El Nino
    • Global Warming
    • Oceans and Seas
    • Hydrology
    • Climate Science

• Restore ponds, HC to Agra admn

  In a decision, with far reaching consequence on the environment of Agra, passed recently by the High Court of Uttar Pradesh, the Agra administration has been asked to restore more than 70 public

  • 29/12/2005

  • Pioneer (New Delhi)
  • • Dams
    • Irrigation

• River dolphin declared State Aquatic Animal

  The State Government today declared the endangered Gangetic river dolphin as the State Aquatic Animal. Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi announced this during a World Environment Day celebration here today. The decision would add teeth to the conservation measures initiated by the State Government to save this endangered species, which was a longstanding demand of the various environmentalist groups across the world.

  • 06/06/2008

  • Assam Tribune (Guwahati)
  • • UNFCCC
    • Brahmaputra
    • Kulsi
    • Subansiri
    • Aquatic Animals
    • Dolphin
    • Climate Change
    • Assam
    • Dibrugarh (D)

• Bus strike deferred

  The West Bengal state government has extended the 31 December deadline for the withdrawal of pre-1990 buses and mini buses by a week following the Calcutta High Court's order, the state transport

  • 27/12/2005

  • Statesman (Kolkata)
  • • Vehicular Pollution

• Governor Declares Drought in California

  Its reservoir levels receding and its grounds parched, California has fallen officially into drought, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Wednesday, warning that the state might be forced to ration water to cities and regions if conservation efforts did not improve. A farm near Bakersfield has been put up for sale for commercial development. There is tension between city residents and farmers, who consume most of California's water.

  • 05/06/2008

  • New York Times (New York)
  • • Drinking Water
    • Climate Change
    • Drought
    • United States Of America (US)
    • California

• No arable land will be used for bio-fuel President

  President Mahinda Rajapaksa has stressed that in the prevailing competition between food and fuel, Sri Lanka was firm in the decision that no land that can be used for food will be used for bio-fuel whatever the commercial attraction may be. Addressing the FAO Conference on food security in Rome yesterday President Rajapaksa said it was the belief of Sri Lanka that food for the people should have the highest priority, and not the running of gas-guzzling vehicles.

  • 04/06/2008

  • FAO
  • • Climate Change
    • Biofuel
    • SAARC
    • Food Security

• Contaminated French warship to leave for Gujarat yard shortly

  The highly contaminated French aircraft carrier, Clemenceau, will shortly leave the southwestern port of Toulon to be dismantled at the ship-breaking yards at Alang in Gujarat, the Defence Ministry

  • 25/12/2005

  • Hindu (New Delhi)

• The missing piece in climate policy: renewable heating and cooling in Germany and the U.S.

  This report focuses specifically on the topic of renewable energy for heating and cooling for two reasons. First, the heating and cooling sector contributes largely to energy consumption, and therefore the emission of greenhouse gases. Globally, heating and cooling accounts for an estimated 40-50% of final energy demand.

  • 01/04/2008

  • Heinrich Boll Foundation
  • • Climate Change
    • Renewable Energy
    • Biomass
    • Biofuel
    • Germany
    • United States Of America (US)
    • Climate

• Rising ocean acidity threatens islands

  Rising acidity in the ocean caused by seas absorbing greenhouse carbon dioxide could make low-lying island nations like Kiribati and the Maldives more vulnerable to storms as their coral reefs struggle to survive, say scientists. Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is at its highest level in the past 650,000 years and half of it has now been dissolved into the oceans making them more acidic.

  • 03/06/2008

  • Times Of India (New Delhi)
  • • Oceans and Seas
    • Carbon Dioxide
    • Green House Gases
    • Storms
    • Kiribati

• Carbon footprint labels in offing

  The government is considering the introduction of carbon footprint labels for food and other daily products as early as next fiscal year as part of its efforts to fight global warming, officials said Monday. The labels would display the total amount of carbon dioxide emitted during the production, marketing and distribution of the items. Carbon footprint labels have already been attached to about 75 products sold in the British market and there is growing interest in the system from other industrialized countries, including Japan, the officials said.

  • 03/06/2008

  • Japan Times (Japan)
  • • Carbon Dioxide
    • Global Warming

• Turkish Government Decides To Approve Kyoto Protocol

  The Turkish government has decided to approve the Kyoto Protocol. the UN-led global climate pact, and will send a bill on the issue to parliament shortly, a government spokesman said on Monday. The Kyoto Protocol binds 37 industrialised countries to limits on their greenhouse gases compared to 1990 levels. More than 170 nations have ratified the pact, which came into force in 2005 and Turkey is one of the few countries to have failed to do so.

  • 03/06/2008

  • Planet Ark (Australia)
  • • Green House Gases
    • Kyoto Protocol
    • Turkey

• Satellite Images Reveal Papua Forest Destruction

  Thirty years of satellite imagery of Papua New Guinea's rainforests has revealed destruction on such a rapid scale that by 2021 most accessible forest will be destroyed or degraded, a study released on Monday said. Papua New Guinea has the world's third largest tropical rainforest, after the Amazon and the Congo, and its government is seeking compensation for conserving its forests as carbon-traps to help reduce global greenhouse gases.

  • 03/06/2008

  • Planet Ark (Australia)
  • • Forests
    • Climate Change
    • Green House Gases
    • Papua New Guinea

• Ozone smog may blanket N hemisphere

  Traffic pollution, especially in Asia, is becoming so bad that most of the northern hemisphere will eventually be blanketed by ozone smog, triggering asthma epidemics and damaging crops and

  • 02/02/2001

  • • Ozone Layer

• Delivering sustainable urban mobility

  A new ACOLA report shows that Australia's cities are not sustainable and a major rethink is required. The report Delivering Sustainable Urban Mobility warns that Australia is heading down the wrong path

  • 01/10/2015

  • Australian Council of Learned Academies (ACOLA)
  • • Mobility Planning
    • Urbanisation
    • Urban Transport
    • Transport
    • Australia
    • Public Transport
    • Climate Change
    • Air Pollution
    • Health Effects
    • Sustainable Development
    • Economic Development

• We're working on customised products for private sector

  WE ARE a country that always believed that summer monsoons were something that the rain gods deigned. In the past, if the monsoons failed and ricocheted on agriculture (the backbone of our economy) and impacted on food prices, we had few options. But of late, there's been a sea change in that whole perception. The change is qualitative, in consonance with sudden and volatile climactic developments.

  • 01/06/2008

  • Economic Times (New Delhi)
  • • Weather Predictions
    • Monsoons
    • Climate Change
    • Indian Meteorological Department (IMD)
    • Ministry of Science and Technology
    • India