Blinded by figures
By 2010, the world's population will have gone up to 6 billion. But at the recent New York meeting on population and development, counting heads took precedence over critical issues such as women's nutrition and education
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Brown carbon and internal mixing in biomass burning particles
Biomass burning (BB) contributes large amounts of black carbon (BC) and particulate organic matter (POM) to the atmosphere and contributes significantly to the earth’s radiation balance. BB particles can
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Forests of global contention
The South"s determined efforts to scuttle the forest convention that the North was adamant on pushing through was a major triumph. A blow-by-blow account of the crucial, often tricky, negotiation
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Water, saviour from heat
Water minimises the climatic effects of a cooler or warmer sun, says Hsien-Wang Ou of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York, USA. The Sun has got about 30 per cent hotter since
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Aerosols: bad news for developing countries
The effects of aerosols in the atmosphere will magnify the warming over several developing countries, shows a study by the Indian Ocean Experiment (INDOEX), an international field experiment which is
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Who will play Cupid?
Pollinators, small insects like bees and butterflies, animals like bats and small birds such as the hummingbird, play a big role in helping plants propagate. Their populations are declining rapidly. If they die out, so will the plants that depend on them
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The cold rush
What has India got to show after 20 years on the Antarctica research bandwagon? Lack of focus
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Rising world food prices: How to address the problem?
Strong and new forces of change in the world food equation are transforming food consumption, production and markets. Unlike the pattern prevailing for the past few decades, today's global agricultural system is very much driven by the demand side. With income growth in emerging economies, globalisation and urbanisation, the demand for agricultural products will continue to grow and shift toward high-value commodities. Partly driven by the expansion of biofuels and demand for feed, strong global cereal consumption is likely to continue.
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Passing USA's laugh test
Helping George Bush gain political mileage seemed to be the overriding concern at the recent climate convention negotiations in New York. India stood alone on the issue of apportioning global sinks
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Noise and a sane voice
We hope that this voice of academics, professionals and scientists will become a shout and then a scream very soon
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Spare change
Resources devoted to health care systems are neither divided equitably nor in proportion to the distribution of health problems
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Opinions
Our position is that USA is the biggest culprit in the world. ---Environment minister Kamal Nath on the eve of his departure to Rio We cannot permit the extreme in the environmental
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Caught between athletes and technology
Technology is taking sports to new highs, triggering a debate on whether competitions should be between people or between machines.
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Conservation: a wider vision
A new method to conserve biodiversity views the problem from the point of view of an entire landscape instead of a single species
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The investment dilemma
Technological improvement for greater efficiency faces many hurdles, especially poor immediate returns on investment
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US town compensated for wildlife conservation
compensating people for conservation is happening at a regional scale. Local residents of Jamestown in Rhode Island, us, are paying farmers to delay haying their fields until after birds have
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The crossover
Fuel cells are more important to a developing country like India than developed countries. But the corporate sector is slow.
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Discounting the future
What is the guarantee that the rules being set to control global warming will take India s economic interests into account?
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Don't make the world dysfunctional
It is interesting how the coalitions of the willing and the wanting shift in this world. When it comes to negotiations on ecological globalisation conventions from climate change to biodiversity