Study says our brains read a face for its race
A specific part of the brain appears to react differently to faces of another race than to faces of the same race, according to a multicenter team of researchers. The team cautions, however, that the
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The other side of ozone
The steep rise in the levels of global tropospheric ozone is threatening air quality around the globe, states a study by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (ipcc). It reveals that the gas
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Enhanced modern heat transfer to the Arctic by warm Atlantic water
The Arctic is responding more rapidly to global warming than most other areas on our planet. Northward-flowing Atlantic Water is the major means of heat advection toward the Arctic and strongly affects
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How effective are slurry storage, cover or catch crops, woodland creation, controlled trafficking or break-up of compacted layers, and buffer strips as on-farm mitigation measures for delivering an improved water environment?
Agriculture has intensified over the last 50 years resulting in increased usage of fertilizers and agrochemicals, changes in cropping practices, land drainage and increased stocking rates. In Europe, this
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Avoiding future famines: strengthening the ecological foundation of food security through sustainable food systems
This report – Avoiding Future Famines: Strengthening the Ecological Basis of Food Security through Sustainable Food Systems - is a unique collaboration of 12 leading scientists and experts involved in
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BP Australia offer customers a chance to offest pollution
Motorists will be able to help offset car pollution in a new program by BP Australia. Customers who feel strongly about environmental protection will be able to make a direct contribution to
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European drivers ignore appeal
Traffic crawled at its usual place through many European cities as motorists gave a thumbs down to an appeal to leave their cars at home for a day and go to work by foot, bicycle or public
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No say for power ministry in green panel irks Shinde
NEW DELHI: The power ministry may be the government's main instrument for implementing measures to reduce carbon emissions and improve efficiency in the energy sector but a group of experts put together by the Planning Commission to prepare a roadmap to turn the country on a low carbon growth pathway has left out the ministry, much to the chagrin of power minister Sushilkumar Shinde.
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Mudra bags AME award
Mudra Advertising has won the advertising and marketing effectiveness AME Awards (New York Festivals) for 2005. The judges bestowed the award on Mudra Communications, New Delhi, for the creativity
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Rs 300-cr project for restoring water bodies approved
The Union Cabinet today approved a national project for repair, renovation and restoration of water bodies directly linked to agriculture. A meeting of the Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister, Dr
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Greenland ice sheet albedo feedback: thermodynamics and atmospheric drivers
Greenland ice sheet mass loss has accelerated in the past decade responding to combined glacier discharge and surface melt water runoff increases. During summer, absorbed solar energy, modulated at the
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Water level at Rawal dam receding fast
The residents of the Rawalpindi city have to face another worst kind of water crisis as the water level at Rawal dam is fast receding. The dam reservoirs generally remain packed to capacity
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Kalabagh Dam
Plan to launch public awareness drive under study : The Pakistan government is contemplating to launch a public awareness campaign on the long disputed issue of construction of the Kalabagh Dam,
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Tree cover in the State on the rise
COIMBATORE: Thanks to the Tamil Nadu Afforestation Project Phase I, the forest and tree cover of Tamil Nadu has increased to 4.26 per cent from 3.66 per cent even though at the all India level it declined to 2.79 per cent from 3.05 per cent, Minister for Forests N. Selvaraj said here on Thursday.
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DDA Master Plan experts call for low-rise high-density development, mixed-land use
“Acquire illegal farmhouses for social infrastructure; use sick industrial plots for residential development” The Delhi Development Authority on Monday completed a significant milestone in its ongoing review of the Delhi Master Plan-2021. Four technical committees engaged in reviewing four broad areas of the Master Plan came up with presentations on the work done so far and an audience of top public servants, town planners, urban designers and architects offered their views on the broad ideas that the improved Master Plan seeks to incorporate.
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Behavior and energy policy
Many countries devote substantial public resources to research and development (R&D) for energy-efficient technologies. Energy efficiency, however, depends on both these technologies and the choices of the user. Policies to affect these choices focus on price changes (e.g., subsidies for energy-efficient goods) and information disclosure (e.g., mandated energy-use labels on appliances and autos).
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Solar power for 25 govt schools, 10 hospitals
New Delhi: The Delhi environment department has identified 25 government schools and 10 government hospitals that will get independent solar power systems. The pilot project is looking at generating 500kW
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U.S. acts to tighten protection of wetlands
The Clinton administration proposed new rules to protect environmentally sensitive wetlands from development, a response to what administration officials called a recent rash of destruction.
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France to accelerate green diesel output
French output of biodiesel is set to accelerate sharply over the next three years but France will still be far behind EU targets, the head of the country's leading producer said. In a bid to reduce
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Call for strong national policy
While US clean energy and climate advocates rarely display any real swing time mode when looking at the Copenhagen Climate Talks and beyond into 2010, they definitely also do not play the blues. Quite to the contrary: The lack of any concrete international outcome at that point in time might still give the domestic US process the needed tailwind to come to some clean energy, climate legislation.