A case for consensus on dams and development
Experts participating in a national dialogue on "Dams and development" here today examined the difficult correlation between the concerns of stakeholders and the need for water availability,
Experts participating in a national dialogue on "Dams and development" here today examined the difficult correlation between the concerns of stakeholders and the need for water availability,
Global climate change is today a spectre which allows for no ostriches. Scientific data is piling up to indict human activity as the source of the current phase of warming. The debate is whether the affluent North or the developing South has been more r
This article evaluates the implications of uncertainty in the life cycle (LC) energy efficiency and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of rapeseed oil (RO) as an energy carrier displacing fossil diesel (FD). Uncertainties addressed include parameter uncertainty as well as scenario uncertainty concerning how RO coproduct credits are accounted for (uncertainty due to modeling choices).
This latest FAO study assesses the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the global dairy cattle sector and provide estimates of GHG emissions associated with milk production & processing for main regions and farming systems of the world.
Water-related risks are receiving more attention than in the past, yet the connection to power sector development is not well understood by investors, governments, and companies in
The international charity group Care has turned down a donation of us $46 million a year worth of grain from the us government saying the country's food aid system does "more harm than good'.
The National Plan for Disaster Management 2010-2015 is an outcome of the national and international commitments of the Government of Bangladesh (GoB) and the Disaster Management and Relief Division (DM&RD) for addressing the disaster risks comprehensively.
This paper explores the pros and cons of biomass and the logistics of switching to other fuels in developing countries. Calculations reveal that there is more than sufficient biomass, not only to maintain present consumption, but also to expand its use considerably. A principal cause of global warming is the increased use of fossil fuels.
For the first time in Jammu workshop on "Management of Water Supply and Sanitation' was organised by State Level Water and Sanitation Mission Communication and Capacity Development Unit Jammu (CCDO).
The World Council of Churches (WCC) organised a campaign to mobilise public opinion and pressurise governments to make efforts to stop climate change. The WCC has declared that "Climate change is
More than 200 million people living in dryland regions of Sub-Saharan Africa make their living from agriculture. Most are exposed to weather shocks, especially drought, that can decimate their incomes,
The ozone layer will return to its condition it was in early 1970 by 2050,as predicted by the Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion 1998, released by the World Meteorological Organisation and the
Sweden recently announced an ambitious plan to check greenhouse gas (ghg) emissions in the country. It has targeted cutting down its ghg emissions to at least 30 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced plans to launch a new rover in 2003 to study the surface of Mars. Expected to land and begin its Martian tour in 2004, the rover
Environment will be made a compulsory subject from Class I to XII in Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) schools this year. The CBSE decision follows a Supreme Court judgement directing
<p><span class="pb_abstract">There is a large uncertainty in the relative roles of human land use, climate change and carbon dioxide fertilization in changing desert dust source strength over the past 100 years, and the overall sign of human impacts on dust is not known.
All of the representative concentration pathways (RCPs) assume that future emissions of aerosols and aerosol precursors will decline sharply. There is considerable evidence that historically increasing
The imposition of Euro II norms enabled the Koreans to position their cars as technologically superior to the Maruti since they were equipped with mulit-point fuel injection
When economists, scientists and governments want to study the state of the environment, and reach sensible decisions, they have a problem. Most of the data available concern local areas or regions,
As Russia's Nuclear Power Ministry prepares to amend the law so that Russia can profit from the import of nuclear waste, 200 organizations are trying to force the government to hold a referendum on