Mission: Planet Earth
NASA scientists have developed a new space based imager with very high resolution which will help foresters, farmers and geologists, and lay the foundation for future land imaging systems
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Eco liaisoning
THE South can now begin challenging the stereotypes about itself that had been sold so enticingly till now. The Environmental Liaison Centre International (ELCI), in Nairobi has launched a project to
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Knowledge, networks and nations - Global scientific collaboration in the 21st century
<p>This major study analyses where, why and by whom science is being carried out around the world, and how this is changing. Examines how international networks of collaboration are changing the way in which scientific research is conducted, funded, the implications on decision makers in government, NGOs. etc and includes recommendations on how international collaboration can be harnessed to tackle global problems more effectively.</p>
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Swept apart
The 1999 super cyclone has put the state s development clock back by two decades
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The heat is on
The increase in greenhouse gas emissions and damage to the ozone layer hold far more serious consequences for human health than earlier imagined
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A hundred year war
It's been a century of research and implementation of malaria control strategies. But the disease continues to claim three million lives every year
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Revitalizing industrial growth in Pakistan: trade, infrastructure, and environmental performance
Pakistan’s population is growing and becoming more urbanized. By 2020, Karachi and Lahore will each have a population of well over 10 million people and several other cities will have a population of at
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Growing better: ten critical transitions to transform food and land use
<p>This new report highlights 10 global transformations over the next decade that could help the international community tackle the climate crisis and feed over nine billion people</p>
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European bird pioneers new route
The European blackcap has dramatically changed its migration pattern, flying to a new site, more than 1,000 km north of the region where it traditionally spent the winter.
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Autonomous profiling device to monitor remote water bodies
In tropical climates, most freshwater reservoirs, dams and lakes are prone to annual summer stratification during which bottom water layers near the bed become hypoxic (< 2 ml/l) with very low concentrations
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Season and outdoor temperature in relation to detection and control of hypertension in a large rural Chinese population
In many Western populations, blood pressure varies moderately with season and outdoor temperature. Relatively little is known about effects of seasonal changes in blood pressure on the detection and control
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Risk assessment of GMOs
As of today, there is no GMO released anywhere in the world for which all the following information is available
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Sensitivity of meteorological input and soil properties in simulating aerosols (dust, PM10, and BC) using CHIMERE chemistry transport model
The objective of this study is to evaluate the ability of a European chemistry transport model, ‘CHIMERE’ driven by the US meteorological model MM5, in simulating aerosol concentrations [dust, PM10 and
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Making way
The way the earth's plantlife is today has been the result of a unique process of "peaceful transition"
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Wise use: indigenous approaches to inland wetland management: best practices?
The ever increasing loss of natural floodplain wetlands to hydrological and global change, land use change and natural hazards is leading to serious environmental and ecological concerns in the flood plains
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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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Pathogen paradigms
Foresight and planning are necessary to counter the new outbreaks of infectious diseases
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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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Orientation Programme on Managing Urban Air Quality: Focus on Clean Vehicle Technology and Fuels
The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) is organising a three-day orientation programme at New Delhi from September 25 – 27, 2012 for policy makers from different cities of India and South Asia. The
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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