Reading the future in the past
Geological records of how climate responded to changes in the atmosphere in the past enables scientists to model future climate behaviour in response to current atmospheric changes
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Sun lighting up the valley
Solar lighting systems have brightened up the gloomy winters of Himachal Pradesh s Mayad valley
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Why do farmers have to die?
The agriculture minister told parliament last week that 100,000 farmers had committed suicide from 1998 to 2003, a period for which his government had data. This means 45 farmers killed themselves
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Copenhagen: excluding people and voices for an unfair deal
<p>The Copenhagen conference will definitely go down as the worst meeting in global climate negotiations. There is a complete mess here: lines of people standing outside the Bella Centre, where the conference is taking place, wanting to get in. Inside the meeting has broken down for the umpteenth time because industrialized countries refuse to commit to cutting emissions.
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Air Pollution in the Month of October is Getting Worse - is Delhi Ready?
<div>For the city of Delhi, an air quality index methodology was proposed and applied for six criteria pollutants - PM10, PM2.5, CO, NOx, SO2, and Ozone and analyzed for trends in the past three years of data. The AQI is reported on a scale of 0 to 500 and subdivided into six colored bins for easy understanding of the common person and the media.
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Small Hydro Power: A tradeoff between local economic development (if and when it happens) and environmental Impact. Who defines the limits for the latter?
<br> Abhinav Goyal <hr /> <p>Access to Energy and its linkages with poverty alleviation are well established and much talked about around the globe, especially in the developing world. On a recent visit
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Small Hydro Power: A tradeoff between local economic development (if and when it happens) and environmental Impact. Who defines the limits for the latter?
<p style="margin-bottom: -4em;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="370px" scrolling="no" src="/files/re/home/demo/reportal.htm" width="540px"></iframe><br>Access to Energy and its linkages with poverty alleviation
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Decoding climate change risks
<p><strong><img alt="" src="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/media/iep/homepage/msanwal_blog.jpg" style="width: 600px; height: 117px;" /></strong></p> <p><strong>Small changes in urban human behavior
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Champions of a new cause
National political parties are often accused of neglecting the environment. Recently, the Bharatiya Janata Party began campaigning against two new industrial units in Maharashtra and demonstrated how it was able to garner popular support by exploiting gre
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Mission impossible?
Managing the conflict
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In crisis
The desert city of Jodhpur in Rajasthan is an excellent example of how Thoughtless processes of modernisation and urbanisation have destroyed an extraordinary water management system
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God's own country
This is a true story of the beautiful state of Kerala, of its famed backwaters and wetlands, of its rain swept Western Ghats. It also speaks of the grime beneath the hype of a state which is home to "a generation on crutches", and of the environmental h
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Purifying the Ganga
"The story of the Ganges, from her source to the sea, from old times to new, is the story of India"s civilisation ..." - Jawaharlal Nehru
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Forest tales
The tribal world view that humans can regenerate forests, but not create them, may resolve problems and failures which stalk forest management policies of the government
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Power crunch in paradise
Port Blair, port city of the Andamans, is in a developmental cul de sac
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The microbes strike back
Diseases that were cheerfully believed to have been eradicated are inexplicably cropping up again in India in deadlier, drug resistant forms
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Wasteful profits
From barefoot ragpickers to rich kabariwallahs moving about in cars, the country's waste recycling industry caters to countless Indians.An attractive business proposition that most people choose to overlook, scrap Is even being imported now
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The rulers nouveaux
Madhya Pradesh took a head start in implementing the 3 tier panchayati raj. But lack of finances might just undo the transfer of power to the people
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Secrets of the water fort
Planners in the ancient city of Dholavira had conceptualised an amazing system of drains, dams and tanks to manage water. To conserve every drop of water, they carefully considered everything, from site selection to extra strong city walls and even air du