Air quality is a major challenge globally and is the single greatest environmental risk to human health. More than 90 per cent of the world’s population lives in areas that exceed the World Health Organization guideline for healthy air. In North America, Canada and the United States of America have …
The goal of this study was to identify commercial chemicals that might be persistent and bioaccumulative (P&B;) and that were not being considered in current Great Lakes, North American, and Arctic contaminant measurement programs. We combined the Canadian Domestic Substance List (DSL), a list of 3059 substances of
A well-known genetic scientist from Canada has demanded that the Governments and corporates promoting genetically modified food should evolve a third party insurance mechanism to protect the long-term interests of the people. Strongly opposing the entry of the GM foods into India, Dr Shiv S. Chopra said a mechanism should …
A hilarious prank led to Canada pulling the plug on thousands of websites in the first week of January. The Canadian government wiped out 4,500 websites in early January as it frantically grappled with a climate change hoax by the Yes Men. During the Copenhagen climate change conference the anti-corporate …
Canada’s second-oldest magazine has bowed to the vicissitudes of the Internet. It is changing its name because its unintended sexual connotation has caused the history journal to become snagged in Internet filters and has turned off potential readers. The Beaver was founded in 1920 as a publication of the Hudson …
In order to counter spiralling pulse prices, the Union government is supplying imported yellow pea at one-third the market price of popular pulses. Six months ago, when pulse prices looked like increasing, grain traders as well as the government saw an opportunity in importing yellow peas from Canada, where it …
Common Bacteria Tweaked To Digest Sugars From Biomass To Churn Out Green Diesel Washington: Researchers have genetically engineered one of the most common bacteria on the planet
Asserting that Canada has vast reserves of uranium with two third of oil reserves, Barnala-born Canadian MP Devinder Shory has claimed that Canadian Prime Minister has inked supply of adequate quantity of uranium for its use in promoting technology in India for civil purpose.
Air pollution may double the risk tha an elderly person will be hospitalise for pneumonia. Pneumonia is the leading cause of death in the elderly. The study -led by researchers at McMaster University in Canada and reported in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine -- looked at …
Childhood leukemias, including acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and acute myelogenous leukemia (AML), are rare but potentially fatal cancers associated with substantial morbidity. Turner et al. report on a meta-analysis of original case
In 2012, the movie, the earth as we know it is destroyed because of a sudden burst of solar flares that heat the planet's core, causing major shifts in tectonic plates. The result is cataclysmic tsunamis, earthquakes and volcanoes that wipe out most of life except for a modern fleet …
The fifth Climate Change Performance Index released by Germanwatch and Climate Action Network at Copenhagen. This is a comparison of the 57 industrialised countries and emerging economies. See Also: Report: S&P;/IFCI Carbon Efficient Index. www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/node/293414 Report: Global Peatland CO2 picture. www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/node/290548 Report: U.S. proposed carbon tariffs www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/node/293198 Report: Low carbon …
HARDEV SANOTRA The world's weatherman tells us that this year had been the fifth warmest since 1850 and the decade has been the hottest on record. The Geneva-based World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) released its annual data earlier at the UN climate conference which shows that the combined sea and land …
Canada has offered eco-friendly technologies to clean and conserve holy Yamuna river in Delhi, that provides drinking water to about 57 million people in the country. River Yamuna. AP"Canada would like an opportunity to demonstrate before 2010 Commonwealth Games begins in Delhi how its technology could change the outlook of …
The attractions of a piecemeal approach to global warming ONLY half of man-made global warming comes from CO2. The rest comes from a variety of sources, including hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), black carbon (soot), methane and nitrogen compounds. Packing them all up together gives the Kyoto protocol an elegant framework which in …
The extraction of oil from the second largest reserves in the world has merely begun, but the environmental costs are already skyrocketing. Canadian NGOs claim tar sand development is the most destructive project on earth.
The extraction of oil from the second largest reserves in the world has merely begun, but the environmental costs are already skyrocketing. Canadian NGOs claim tar sand development is the most destructive project on earth.
This guide addresses the linkages between drinking water, biological diversity and development/poverty alleviation. It aims to raise awareness of sustainable approaches to managing drinking water that have been tested globally. The guide introduces the available techniques, technologies and procedures that optimize social and environmental outcomes in the management of drinking …
