Intel's Moore launches effort at biodiversity
Gordon Moore the co-founder and chairman emeritus of Intel Corp has made the first down payment on a 30 year $31 billion plan to prevent the mass extinction of species by saving crucial wilderness
Gordon Moore the co-founder and chairman emeritus of Intel Corp has made the first down payment on a 30 year $31 billion plan to prevent the mass extinction of species by saving crucial wilderness
The fourth session of AWG-LCA is scheduled on 1-10 Dec. 2008 in Pozna?, Poland. The group will hold three focused in-session workshops on: - Shared vision for long-term cooperative action; - Risk management and risk reduction strategies, including risk sharing and transfer mechanisms such as insurance;
To ease congestion at its CNG filling stations across the Capital, Indraprastha Gas Limited plans to rationalise filling of private and school buses by dedicating five dispensers exclusively for
The West Bengal Government has drawn up an ambitious Eco-tourism project to promote the bio-diversity of the Sunderbans, the Chief Minister, Mr. Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, has said. The project will be
The forest fires of 1997 and 1998 created enormous ecological damage and human suffering and helped focus world attention on what is an increasing problem.
A new white paper from the global management consultancy Arthur D. Little looks at the future of carbon markets post-2012.
A malaria vaccine shows encouraging results in trials
The 2,000-odd converted diesel buses with CNG kits will remain on the roads for sometime at least. The Supreme Court had passed an order, this Monday, saying that unless they comply with the safety
<p>WWF’s 2010 Living Planet Report is the world's leading, science-based analysis on the health of our planet and the impact of human activity on the planet. The biennial report explores the changing state of biodiversity, ecosystems and peoples’ consumption of natural resources.
<p>An investment of US$6 billion annually in disaster risk management would result in avoided losses of US$360 billion over the next 15 years says this fourth edition of the United Nations Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction (GAR). </p>
Polythene culture in Puri is driving the palm leaf packets out of use
If it was power yesterday, it is water today. Kudos to the Andhra Pradesh Government for its initiatives on water sector reforms, particularly its decision to set up an independent water supply
The incident of a Maruti van running on a domestic. LPG cooking gas cylinder catching fire near Malviya Nagar here on Friday has once again raised the issue of large-scale proliferation of such
In a rare gesture of cooperation with the authorities, they willingly offered their land for a dam to be constructed on river 'Bebas' and now the 541 farmers, who came up with this generous offer to
The North American lake Management Society (NALMS), USA has conferred the NALMS 2001 achievement award for technical merit for the year 2001 to the Bhoj Wetland Project, under implementation in the
London: Scientists have warned that a huge solar flare is due to erupt in 2013, which could paralyse Earth, causing blackouts and chaos. They fear that the giant explosion of energy from the Sun, a phenomenon which occurs only once every 100 years, could see power grids crash, communication systems collapse, planes grounded and internet shut down, the Sun reported.
Scientists and researchers try to figure out ways to curb rising carbon dioxide levels
Global demand for agricultural products such as food, feed, and fuel is now a major driver of cropland and pasture expansion across much of the developing world. Whether these new agricultural lands replace forests, degraded forests, or grasslands greatly influences the environmental consequences of expansion.
The fate of the Pagladia river multi-purpose dam project in Nalbari district hangs in balance as several organisations have opposed the erection of the dam fearing serious flood problem in Tamulpur
This report provides comparative data on a number of measures of emissions for a wide range of countries, allowing comparisons to be made among the different measures. It provides a decomposition of the change in fossil fuel CO2 emissions between 1994 and 2004 into changes in five factors: the average emission per unit of fossil fuel consumed; the share of fossil fuel consumption in total energy consumption; total energy consumption per unit of GDP; GDP per capita; and population. It carries out this decomposition for the top 70 countries in terms of 2004 emissions of CO2 from fossil fuels.