India s first CDM project
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Data on surface ozone concentration compiled for a 10-year period from 1990 to 1999 for Pune and Delhi are analyzed in terms of its frequency distribution, annual trend, diurnal variation and its relation
The people of Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir, are grappling with the menace of locusts, the migratory grasshoppers. Experts suspect that the pests, Locusta migratoria, have migrated from neighbouring
Sectoral no-lose target has been suggested as one way to overcome weaknesses of the current clean development mechanism and to encourage structural changes and significant reduction of CO2 emissions in carbon-intensive sectors in developing countries.
The earth deep underneath quake-hit Greece and Turkey is fracturing like a pane of glass, increasing the possibility of further tremors in the region, a British seismologist said. "It's a bit like a
This year's Antarctic ozone hole is persisting for longer than those in recent years, according to scientists. Researchers from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) found that the hole covered
Polluting industries will soon have to contend with one more agency, the Central Ground Water Authority (CGWA), which has decided to look seriously into the matter of pollution of aquifers by
After Dolly the Sheep, it's Doogie the Mouse who is now burrowing a tunnel to give us a telescopic vision of the brave new world ahead.A Princeton University neurobiologists and his team have
Australia's A$1-billion a year raw sugar industry is moving to follow Brazil into a new industry producing bio-degradable plastic from sugarcane. The Queensland State Government authority, the Bureau
<p><strong>Monthly Overview on State of Environment, Nepal, December 2013</strong></p> <p>Until a few months ago, Kathmandu Valley denizens would walk past the Bagmati River covering their noses. These days, the river has undergone a makeover of sorts and the credit goes to the ‘Bagmati Cleaning Campaign’, which completed its 30 weeks in December. Read more in this December 2013 edition of the<strong> Monthly Overview on State of Environment, Nepal, December 2013 </strong>published by the South Asia Environment Portal.</p>
Unable to stop real estate developers from indiscriminately filling up ponds in the newly-added areas to the city, Calcutta Municipal Corporation (CMC) will use the West Bengal Fisheries Act to save
In India, for food security, the future agriculture faces the challenge of enhancing crop production under uncertain climatic extremes, in a limited (or degraded at many places) land area, with more and
The uncertainty associated with predicting extreme weather events has serious implications for the developing world, owing to the greater societal vulnerability to such events. Continual exposure to unanticipated
The centre has decided to bear half the maintenance cost of irrigation projects after failing to persuade state govenemnts to raise irrigation cess which partly funds the cost. The pending
The Supreme Court in the 'Almatti Dam Case' today has directed that till further orders of the court, the construction of crest gates at Almatti dam will not begin till January,
Cereals are by far the most important source of food throughout the world, either directly for human consumption or indirectly in the form of animal feed for livestock products consumed as food. With world population set to rise to nine billion by 2050, there is an urgent need to examine ways to increase cereal production.
Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage (CCS) technology has the potential to enable large reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions, but one of the unanswered questions about CCS is to what extent it will be accepted by the public.
Increasing amount of soot, sulphates and other aerosol components in atmospheric brown clouds (ABCs) are causing major threats to the water and food security of Asia and have resulted in surface dimming, atmospheric solar heating and soot deposition in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan-Tibetan (HKHT) glaciers and snow packs.
Rates of forest destruction in the Brazilian Amazon have accelerated over the last decade, according to a latest research done by a team of Brazilian and US scientists. The team analysed
Intelligence is effected by the environment one grows in, proves an analysis of 124 studies published in the January issue of Psychological Review. Dennis Garlick, of the University of Sydney in