We need new cane varieties to withstand global warming
SUGAR INDUSTRY Efforts are being made to increase yield. The idea is to increase average cane yield from 65 tonnes to 100 tonnes a hectare.
SUGAR INDUSTRY Efforts are being made to increase yield. The idea is to increase average cane yield from 65 tonnes to 100 tonnes a hectare.
Global warming will cast its calamitous effect on India too. The Himalayan glaciers would melt leading to massive flood in rivers, Karnataka State Pollution Control Board chairman A S Sadashivaiah has said.
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Blames policies, abuse of resources for global warming The Council for Social Justice and Peace (CSJP) has stated that irrational policies, unscrupulous urbanisation of villages, especially in the coastal belt, and blatant abuse of the natural resources have contributed significantly to global warming and climate change in the State.
Sajan C Kumar Chennai: Leading paint manufacturers in the country are going green by offering houses the much-needed comfort of coolness. As part of devising strategies to combat global warming, the companies have come out with a host of 'green' stuff that cool the interiors of houses built in hot tropical geography.
As Greenland returns to the warm climate that allowed Vikings to colonize it in the Middle Ages, its isolated and dependent people dream of greener fields and pastures
At first glance Greenland is an expanse of blinding white. But as my chopper swings low over the island, color catches my eye. For miles on end, bands of blue meltwater fringe the ice sheet. Fields of white are threaded with riv
This paper assesses the state of the adaptation negotiations under the UNFCCC after the historic climate summit of Copenhagen. It compares the current draft negotiating text (June 2010) and compares it to key essentials that an ambitious adaptation action framework needs to contain to assist developing countries living up to the challenge of adaptation.
The relation between climate and maize production in Nepal was studied for the period 1970/71-2007/08. Due to the topographical differences within north-south span of the country, Nepal has wide variety
<p>As the oceans simultaneously warm, acidify and increase in PCO2, prospects for marine biota are of concern. Calcifying species may find it difficult to produce their skeleton because ocean acidification decreases calcium carbonate saturation and accompanying hypercapnia suppresses metabolism. However, this may be buffered by enhanced growth and metabolism due to warming.</p> <p><strong><a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/fetchObjectAttachment.action?uri=info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0011372&representation=PDF" target="_blank">Original Source</a></strong></p>
Washington: A giant
S. Balaji The world needs to act quickly to counter the erosion of species. The task is particularly important for India, one of the 12 mega-biodiversity centres.
EMMA GRAHAM-HARRISON and LANGI CHIANG BEIJING A senior Chinese climate official said that negotiators aim to seal a binding global pact on warming by the end of 2011, a blow to any lingering hopes the world could reach a deal at talks this year in Mexico
Despite the uncertainty in future climate-change impacts, it is often assumed that humans would be able to adapt to any possible warming. Here we argue that heat stress imposes a robust upper limit to such adaptation. Peak heat stress, quantified by the wet-bulb temperature TW, is surprisingly similar across diverse climates today. TW never exceeds 31?
An increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration influences climate both directly through its radiative effect (i.e., trapping longwave radiation) and indirectly through its physiological effect (i.e., reducing transpiration of land plants).
Small mammals are more at risk from global warming than previously thought, biologists have claimed. "We were interested in the small animals because we wanted to know about the response of the survivors, the communities of animals that are still on the landscape with us today," lead researcher Elizabeth Hadly of Stanford University wrote in the Nature journal.
In the high-altitude desert of the Indian trans-Himalayas, one man is buying time for villagers suffering from global warming by creating artificial glaciers. To view the slideshow click on the following URL: http://www.scientificamerican.com/slideshow.cfm?id=artificial-glaciers-to-survive-global-warming
Many models of climate-driven extinctions are criticised for being theoretical, but new hard data lends them weight.
Surface waters in Lake Tanganyika, the second-oldest and second-deepest lake in the world, are currently warmer than at any time in the previous 1,500 years, according to a study published recently online issue of the journal Nature Geoscience.