Report filed by the Telangana State Pollution Control Board with the National Green Tribunal regarding state pollution control boards in south of India not complying with the direction given by the Supreme Court (Parayavaran Suraksha Samithi Vs Union of India) - wherein the states where directed to make provision for …
The potential impact of climate change over the next century has now been mapped. An animated map of the earth from space illustrating the impacts can be viewed on your computer. The map is part of the project, Climate Change in Our World
Sina.com, one of the most popular online destinations in China, has launched an English-language website to meet the global demand for news about the recent earthquake in the country. The news website, which already claims around 800 million views per day, intends to offer "comprehensive coverage of current events,' a …
>> The Spanish police have arrested five hackers they describe as being among the most active on the Internet. The hackers, who include two 16-year-olds, are accused of disrupting government websites in the US, Asia and Latin America. Police say they co-ordinated attacks over the Internet and hacked into 21,000 …
www.commondreams.org POLITICIZING the InterNET The people who run this site say, "We are committed to being on the cuttingedge of using the Internet as a political organizing tool
In the face of skyrocketing petrol prices, the New Zealand government has said that it would delay the introduction of a new petrol rates under the emissions trading scheme (ets) for two years. The proposed hike in petrol prices was part of a government plan to cap greenhouse gases emitted …
the Department of Information Technology (dit) has drafted a fresh policy on open standards for e-governance. The new draft may lead to a reconsideration of the department's earlier decision to reject Microsoft's document format, ooxml, as an open standard format. The draft has provision for multiple standards, which can allow …
With its three-month pursuit of Yahoo at an end, Microsoft is back where it started: far behind Google, the undisputed online-advertising leader. For years, Microsoft has been striving for a bigger share of the billions of advertising dollars migrating online. Buying Yahoo would have gone a long way to make …
People searching the Internet for information about suicide methods are more likely to find sites encouraging suicide than those offering support, according to a study by researchers from the Universities of Bristol, Oxford and Manchester. They found that nearly half the websites showing up in queries of the four top …
The Surui people who live inside the Amazon rain forest think they have a new saviour. They call it "Ragogmakan'. But we know Surui's benefactor as Google. Almir Narayamoga, the tribe's chief believes that Google Earth can help them check illegal mining. He came up with the idea when a …
Palakkad in Kerala is set to become the first e-revenue district in the country with the computerization of its five taluks and 156 village offices. The process is in the final stages of completion. The entire file-flow process will be done electronically from the village level to the district level. …
http://earth911.org/ CARING FOR REFUSE Technology has revolutionized our lifestyle through telephones, radios, TVs, computers and cell phones. But there is a flipside to technological advancement. The brisk pace of technology means these devices become obsolete quickly. A recent issue is how our old electronics should be disposed of, because they …
Spam continues to blight e-mail exactly 15 years after the term was first coined and almost 30 years since the first spam message was sent. The term is thought to have been coined by Joel Furr, an administrator on the net discussion system Usenet, to refer to unsolicited bulk messages. …
» The Washington Nationals' gleaming new baseball park that opened on February 30 is the first green professional stadium in the United States. The stadium received a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, certification for its energy-conserving and environmental design. It has energy-saving light fixtures, water-conserving plumbing, drought-resistant plants, and …
About 15 years ago, the people who run www.ecological-sustainability.info would have been derided as Malthusians. But the hazards of economic expansion and overpopulation are part of the research agenda in much of academia today. The site under review is, however, not merely about academic concerns. It has been created by …
Bloggers have increasingly switched the focus of their online musings to environmental sustainability - and are taking a particular interest in companies' actions. Consumers are increasingly using the internet to voice their greenwash concerns A report from US market research firm Nielsen Online shows the online buzz about sustainability grew …
The Internet is a building block of the information society as such its governance is an important issue. What are the issues related to internet governance and how can they be dealt with? How may the Internet Governance Forum contribute to participatory decision-making? These are important issues ahead of the …
"Telemedicine" links Africans to Indian expertise By Barry Malone ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Troubled by a difficult case, doctor Asfaw Atnafu decides to seek advice. He walks into a consulting room at Black Lion Hospital in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa and greets a doctor at the Care Hospital in the …
When the first comprehensive report in years to examine energy use by computer servers was published in February 2007, it was greeted with surprise by industry insiders. Jonathan Koomey, a staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, found that worldwide power consumption by servers had doubled between 2000 …
