Delhi’s last chance to be a green city
Experts Demand Environment-Friendly Building Norms For New Urban Areas New Delhi: The new areas of Delhi, categorized as ‘urbanizable areas’ in Master Plan 2021, are mainly tracts of farmland dotted with
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Turning the right corner: ensuring development through a low-carbon transport sector
Developing countries need to transition to a low-carbon transport sector now to avoid locking themselves into an unsustainable and costly future, says a report by the World Bank. According to "Turning
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Ecological restoration for protected areas: principles, guidelines and best practices
This publication provides guidance for terrestrial, marine, and freshwater protected area managers at both system and site levels on the restoration of natural and associated values of protected areas.
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Building urban resilience: principles, tools and practice
This handbook is a resource for enhancing disaster resilience in urban areas. It summarizes the guiding principles, tools and practice in key economic sectors that can facilitate the implementation of
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Energy-intensive industries: decision making for a low-carbon future
The cement industry is a major source of CO2 emissions, accounting for about 5 per cent of anthropogenic CO2 emissions. Securing reductions in these emissions is critical if wider targets for emissions
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Calpers challenges automakers over Californian lawsuit
The Calpers board, the biggest US pension fund, said it wants major car makers to meet with it and defend their lawsuit against California's new rules for reducing exhaust emissions. The landmark
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DaimlerChrysler, GM in pact on hybrids
DaimlerChrysler and General Motors Corp. will jointly develop new hybrid vehicle technology as they strive to catch up with Japanese rivals on the fuel-saving systems that reduce harmful emissions,
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Enabling clean talking
In this new report Greenpeace outlines the roadmap for complete diesel elimination from the Indian telecom sector by the year 2020 through progressive action of massive renewable energy deployment and enhanced energy efficiency measures in its telecom network infrastructure.
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Windmills of change
The New Zealand government proposes to promote the development of two wind farms by providing them Kyoto Protocol climate change credits for the energy produced. While one is a 36-mega watt (mw)
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Warming accelerates decomposition of decades-old carbon in forest soils
Global climate carbon-cycle models predict acceleration of soil organic carbon losses to the atmosphere with warming, but the size of this feedback is poorly known. The temperature sensitivity of soil
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Australia's initiative to slow global warming questioned
While still unwilling to commit itself to the Kyoto protocol, Australia has announced a $200 million (us $160 million) to help fight illegal logging to slow global warming. The fund, known as
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From waste to biofuel: Bugs the way
Common Bacteria Tweaked To Digest Sugars From Biomass To Churn Out Green Diesel Washington: Researchers have genetically engineered one of the most common bacteria on the planet
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Water woes to grow worse as demand-supply gap widens
Water Supply in Bangalore plagued by an ever-increasing demand-supply gap. This is expected to worsen by the end of this decade. Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) supplies 850 MLD to
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Rice only Asian crop at risk from El Nino
Bloomberg SINGAPORE RICE is the only crop in Asia at risk of potential damage from El Nino as the weather phenomenon, which reduces rainfall, weakens and may spare coffee, palm oil, rubber and sugarcane output, an agricultural meteorologist said.
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Jatropha dream fading away ?
The flurry of activity that marked cultivation of Jatropha for production of bio-diesel has suddenly receded.Soon after Y S Rajasekhara Reddy took over as the Chief Minister six months ago, the
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Microsoft accuses Linux of patent violations
microsoft has accused Linux of patent violations. On may 14, 2007, Brad Smith, general counsel for Microsoft, told Fortune magazine that Linux, the open source operating system and other related
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Japanese bank to fund river link project
The Japanese Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) has agreed in principle to fund the State Government's grandiose plans to link Krishna and Godavari rivers to augment irrigation potential.A
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The U turn
Desert to green land to desert again
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World Water Development Report 2015: water in a sustainable world
<p>Earth is facing a 40% shortfall in water supply by 2030, unless we dramatically improve the management of this precious resource warns this latest edition of the UN World Water Development Report.</p>
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Landslide deaths much higher than thought: study
Landslides killed more than 32,000 people across the world from 2004 to 2010 - up to 10 times more than previously thought, the first detailed study of the disasters showed on Thursday. The new data