The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
Massive deforestation and change in land use pattern have affected the climatic conditions all over the world. It has led to rise in global temperature by one to two degree Celsius thus causing climate change and global warming. Expressing concern over climate change at national symposium on "Climate Change Research, …
JAIPUR: Eminent scientists who spoke on the theme of climate change on the opening day of the annual session of the National Academy of Sciences India(NASI) here on Thursday warned of a greater impact of the
KOCHI: The architect of Green Revolution, M S Swaminathan, has put his weight behind the ban imposed by the Pollution Control Board on use of endosulfan in the state. On the sidelines of the sixth Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning here, Swaminathan said the hazardous aspect of using endosulfan in …
PANJIM: Those who love to have fish on a daily basis may have to do without it on October 29, 2010. Reason: The country will be witness to an all-India strike in the entire coastal belt on the day to demand for brining changes to the draft CRZ notification 2010 …
KOCHI: The National Fishworkers Forum (NFF) & Kerala Swathanthra Matsya Thozhilaly Federation (KSMTF) are getting ready to organise continuous protests in all coastal states of the country which come under the Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) 2010, from October 29. Rejecting the draft CRZ notification in toto, they said that it …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The National Fish Workers Forum (NFF) and the Kerala Swathanthra Matsya Thozhilali Federation (KSMTF) rejected the draft Coastal Zone Regulation (CRZ) Notification-2010. In memorandums submitted to Ministry of Environment and Forest, President Pratibha Patil, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA Chairperson Sonia Ghandhi, they have listed out reasons for …
Latest draft has triggered fears of indiscriminate construction along shorelines Twenty years, 25 amendments, several committees and notifications after, the issue of regulating development along India's coastlines remains under debate. The latest to run into a roadblock is the draft notification of the Coastal Regulation Zone 2010, allowing slum redevelopment …
Dennis Marcus Mathew ALAPPUZHA: The Rs.1,840 crore-Kuttanad Package, said to be among the largest financial packages sanctioned to a single region, was launched by Kerala Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan at the Mankombu Mini Civil Station here on Sunday. The package to ensure overall development of the region and its people …
ALAPPUZHA: The Rs.1,840 crore-Kuttanad Package, developed after widespread consultations among all stakeholders, is a people's plan for the region's survival, according to agricultural scientist M.S. Swaminathan. Dr. Swaminathan, who was unable to make it to its launch due to prior commitments, said in a message that he hoped the package, …
New Delhi: The Times of India has always strived to keep issues on environment in focus, engaging its readers with burning topics and raging debates. In an initiative to bring science and issues surrounding climate change closer to the people, the group launched a compilation of essays on climate change …
Jeffrey SachsComplexity and unsolved problems are at the very heart of the sustainability challenge, and at the very heart of M.S. Swaminathan's thinking and essays.In 1798, Thomas Robert Malthus offered the piercing insight that geometric population growth would inevitably outstrip food production, leaving society destitute and hungry. Since that time, …
