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An Arctic account
The ice layer is thinning and spring arrives sooner than expected. The Arctic is already experiencing the impacts of global warming
The ice layer is thinning and spring arrives sooner than expected. The Arctic is already experiencing the impacts of global warming
Glaciologists are arguing on the speed at which the Himalayan glaciers are reteating. Doubts have been raised on the IPCC Report. Read this report on Himalayan glaciology by Syed Hasnain which is leading to the controversy.
the us is unlikely to achieve emission reduction targets as stipulated under the 1997 Kyoto Protocol due to large-scale economic growth. "Taking full advantage of the flexibility mechanisms is the
German companies, EG Solar and Zeo-Tech have developed a new cooling system which is cheap, reliable and easy to maintain. The system consists of a refrigerator powered by solar energy, with a
Nanofluids can make heat less of a bother <br>
AFTER the world community woke up to mid fact of living in warmer climes, of the first things they did was to jibe Climate Change Convention. ir then, they have been scurrying Wd to create
French company Sopro of Marseille has come up with an electronic device that helps singers improve their vocal techniques. The new gadget produces a musical note which the singers then try to
A 10-million-year-old jaw bone recently unearthed in Kenya may have belonged to a new species, which is the last common ancestor of gorillas, chimpanzees and humans. A team of researchers from
An estimated US $2 million worth of lobsters were found either dead or ill off the coast of Maine in the US in 1998. Though some of these lobsters were found to have bacterial infections,
September 11 brings down jet planes, and the temperature
The World Bank has decided to continue providing aid to Pakistan's US $2.2-billion Ghazi Barotha Hydroelectric Power Project after nearly withdrawing from the scheme due to human rights and
Some factories in Delhi are flouting a Supreme Court order to relocate polluting factories. Meanwhile, over 50,000 workers have been rendered jobless. Most have not been compensated
Sites proposed to be leased out in Andaman and Nicobar Islands
The information technology (IT) revolution has finally reached Afghanistan. The country's first batch of IT students recently graduated from Kabul University with industry-standard certificates in
The chief of Zimbabwe's national broadcast body has admitted that there is political interference in editorial policy. "We have been reporting on the basis of deception,' said Henry Muradzikwa,
Two council members from the whaling town of Taiji, Japan, have come out publicly against the feeding of dolphin meat contaminated with mercury to children in school lunch programmes. It is the first
There was a jamboree in my town recently, a gathering of the powerful and famous, to discuss the climate change agreement the world must carve out in Copenhagen by end 2009. But what happened was rather discomforting: We Indians were publicly lectured, castigated and rapped on our knuckles for being bad boys and girls by one and all.
In a major legal action against a us federal agency, an environmental organisation has filed a notice of intent against the agency's political interference in protecting endangered species. At stake
Images highlighting the dangers of smoking will be printed on all tobacco products sold in the uk by the end of 2009, under regulations being planned. Manufacturers will have to start complying from
Radio dish pieces which may have picked up some interesting evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence are on sale now. In 1977, search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) programme was carried