Global warming reduces grain output in inflation-ridden India
Rising temperatures and inadequate rainfall in India is stagnating grain output, threatening food security in the world
Rising temperatures and inadequate rainfall in India is stagnating grain output, threatening food security in the world
The report of a round table discussion on the proposed National Environmental Protection Agency (NEPA) (
The summer of 2010 has just begun, and India is already reeling under extreme temperatures as the mercury climbs unprecedented heights. This unusual rise in summer temperatures could be connected due to global warming says CSE. See Also Report: Global climate in 2009 : WMO www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/node/302056 Report: Daily gridded temperature data set (1969-2005)
If some of the spectacular calving of ice shelves in Antarctica is down to global warming, then why did we not see break-ups on the same scale in Greenland, which is much warmer?
Plans are taking shape for the day when a global coalition may have to "hack the planet" in a bid to reverse the ravages of global warming. Proposals to cool the Earth by deploying sunshades or sucking carbon dioxide from the atmosphere were considered fanciful just a few years ago, but are now being considered by politicians in the US and UK.
J. Praveen Paul Joseph Tuticorin: Seaweed cultivation reduces impact of global warming, as it has the ability to absorb carbon dioxide, according to M. Sakthivel, president, Aquaculture Foundation of India, Chennai. Seaweeds containing 62 minerals and having medicinal values is a wonder plant of the sea.
JOHN M. BRODER The federal government took its first formal step to regulate global warming pollution on Thursday by issuing final rules for greenhouse gas emissions for automobiles and light trucks.
The one-day seminar on 'Global warming and its impact on coastal regions' held in S D M College, Ujire, under the patronage of Union Ministry of Environment and Forests and Karnataka Rajya Vijnana Parishat witnessed a serious discussion about the causes and impacts of global warming on coastal regions and the methods to control them.
The combined global land and ocean average surface temperature for April 2010 was the warmest on record at 14.5
This paper integrates information on climate change, hydrodynamic models, and geographic overlays to assess the vulnerability of coastal areas in Bangladesh to larger storm surges and sea-level rise by 2050.
Glaciers in the high heart of Asia feed its greatest rivers, lifelines for two billion people. Now the ice and snow are diminishing.
Anmol Singh Jaggi was quick to spot and capitalise on the carbon trading opportunity
The Seychelles is plagued by pirates and threatened by climate change
The government is planning an extensive exercise to map a
New restrictions on sulphur emissions from shipping will save thousands of lives
As Egypt celebrates the 50th anniversary of the start of the construction of the Aswan High Dam, some scientists say that this wonder of engineering is contributing to an environmental catastrophe that could force millions of its citizens to abandon the lush, fertile delta. The worst of these is coastal erosion and subsidence, the compacting of the delta soil.
Phenological events such as bud burst, flowering, and senescence have received increased interest in the light of global warming (1
Britain's independent ad watchdog has banned two government issued print adverts for overstating the risks of climate change.
Akikikis are small birds with limber tongues that are adept at pulling insects from the crevices in tree bark. The olive-and-white birds are also headed towards extinction. Earlier this month, the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) listed the akikiki as endangered and warned that global warming may hasten its disappearance by prompting the spread of avian malaria.
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