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UN launches independent review of climate panel
The United Nations launched an independent review of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which has come under much criticism in the recent months.
The decision was announced by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and IPCC chair Rajendra Pachauri in the wake of a report by the body which erroneously claimed that Himalayan glaciers would melt away by 2035.
- Date:
- 11/03/2010
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- Indian Express (New Delhi)
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Climate of fear
The integrity of climate research has taken a very public battering in recent months. Scientists must now emphasize the science, while acknowledging that they are in a street fight. (Editorial)
- Date:
- Mar 2010
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- Nature Vol: 464 Issue: 7286 pp: 141
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Tree-ring: a proxy record for climate study – an assessment in Indian context
This document contains the presentation by Santosh K.Shah, and A. Bhattacharyya, Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, Lucknow, on Tree-ring: a proxy record for climate study – an assessment in Indian context, presented at National climate research conference, IIT Delhi, March 5-6, 2010.
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- Mar 2010
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- Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany
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Aerosols: Integrating an understanding of source-receptor relationships with climate forcing on regional scales
Aerosols: Integrating an understanding of source-receptor relationships with climate forcing on regional scales a paper presented by Chandra Venkataraman at National climate research conference, IIT Delhi, March 5-6, 2010.
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- Mar 2010
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- Indian Institute of Technology
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Assessing changes snow and glacier melt runoff
Assessing changes snow and glacier melt runoff by Anil V Kulkarni presented at the National Climate Research Conference, IIT Delhi, March 5-6, 2010.
- Date:
- Mar 2010
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- Space Applications Centre
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Better burning, better breathing: Improving health with cleaner cook stoves
Every morning and evening, millions of women in India spend an hour or two cooking their rice, dal, curry, and roti or other flat bread. Most will prepare their meals over a smoky, 3-stone open fire or a traditional clay or brick cook stove called a chulha.
- Date:
- Mar 2010
- Source:
- Environmental Health Perspectives Vol: 18 Issue: 3 pp: A124-A129
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Reason over emotion - Climate change, food security and the need for rational debate
ASHOK GANGULY
Two critical and contemporary issues, principally in the domain of science, are grabbing headlines in the popular media — the Himalayan glaciers and the Bt brinjal in India.
- Date:
- 24/02/2010
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- Telegraph (Kolkata)
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Himalya launches fruit-blended yoghurts
The Paonta-based Himalya International Frozen Foods has launched real fruit-blended yoghurts in metro cities under the brand name “Himalya Fresh”.
- Date:
- 19/02/2010
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- Tribune (New Delhi)
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Scientist discovers Himalayan wildcat haven
Divya Gandhi
Bangalore: A little-known rainforest in north-east India could be home to the world’s largest number of wildcat species, with no less than seven species photo-documented by a wildlife biologist at the end of her two-year survey.
- Date:
- 19/02/2010
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- Hindu (New Delhi)
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Himalayan glacier report ‘rigorous,’ says Martin Parry
DAVID ADAM
The scientist at the centre of the storm over mistakes by the UN’s climate change panel has broken his silence to defend his report as “robust and rigorous.”
- Date:
- 18/02/2010
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- Hindu (New Delhi)
