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Federal funding for scientific researches take a plunge as Republicans plan a cut in the budget
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Doha: inaction in the face of urgency
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Advanced ancestry
Fresh research advances the date of human ancestors
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Nepal's right to energy movement: lessons for super-grids of the future
<p>Sorry for the long silence in the blog space. But I was fatigued and rather frustrated with the same old arguments and going-nowhere debates. So in the last few months we have been busy with new research to bring different perspectives to the old problems -- how will we share the increasingly scarce budget in an increasingly at-risk carbon constrained world.</p>
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The mean world of climate change
<p>The Prime Minister has released India’s national action plan on climate change. For those engaged in the business of environment and climate, the plan may offer nothing new or radical. But, as I see it, the plan asserts India can grow differently, because “it is in an early stage of development”.
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Heated fracas over forest fires
The conflicting views of environmentalists, foresters and local citizens are hindering the formulation of a coherent forest policy in the US
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Poverty as a posture?
<p><strong>The road to next climate negotiation turns hostile as some developing nations are upgraded.</strong><br />
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India’s call for ‘climate justice’ can break the deadlock at Paris
<p><strong><img alt="" src="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/media/iep/homepage/msanwal_blog.jpg" style="width: 610px; height: 119px; float: left;" />India’s pivotal role: speaking for the
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Moneymakers
IT IS painted bright red with big black spots and looks like a cross between a lady bug and a toy car. It is the ultra-mini Haishen or the "car for the masses" that is about to hit the gigantic
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GoodBAU, cruel world
<p>At l’aquila in Italy, during a meeting of the world’s major boys and girls, India agreed to cap its carbon emissions. The agreement proclaimed the signatory countries would work together to limit global temperature rise to 2ºC from pre-industrial time. It was as if they were writing off bad debt.
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More on the Copenhagen Accord: US vs India (part 1)
<p>Three negotiation related documents that I have been sitting on, which need to be put on public record, are:</p>
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The pope supports the principle of common but differentiated responsibility, stresses social and justice concerns
<p><img alt="" src="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/media/iep/homepage/mukul_blog.jpg" style="width: 600px; height: 117px; margin: 10px; float: left;" />The Pope has said he hopes the document,
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The Paris summit: Universality and diversity
<p align="center"><span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>A framework for updating the Climate Treaty</strong></span></p> <p align="center"><em>MukulSanwal<a href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><strong> [1]</strong></a></em></p>
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The IMPACTS WORLD 2013
<p>The <span class="caps">IMPACTS</span> <span class="caps">WORLD</span> 2013 conference aims to develop a new vision for climate impacts research by laying the foundations for regular, community-driven syntheses of climate change impact analyses. It will bring together leading scientists and decision makers from local to international levels. <a>more</a></p>
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Pollen rain
Breaking past records, the city Atlanta was enveloped by a coat of pollen from the trees of northern Georgia
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24/7 water supply
Three villages in West Bengal s Darjeeling district also export organic tea
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Where is the green party?
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Insecure and unenergetic
Whatever the new Union minister of Petroleum Mani Shankar Aiyer may have us believe, oil prices are on a roll and will remain cripplingly high. Oil experts say that, unusually, the surge comes during
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Pen friend
A hi tech 'pen' can soon make keyboards and mice obsolete
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Beyond Rio+20
It was June of 1992. The location was Rio de Janeiro. The occasion was the world conference on environment and development. A large number of people had come out on the streets. They were protesting the