Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Nayar river is vanishing - a yatra reveals conservation goes beyond science and policy" appearing in ‘The Down To Earth’ dated 03.06.2025. The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Nayar …
MUMBAI: Even as the rains remain elusive in catchment areas and contractors promoting cloud seeding technology throng BMC corridors, civic officials are not very keen to woo the rain-bearing clouds artificially. "It is still at a very nascent stage. We have asked contractors to come up with a proposal. We …
With their focus on greenhouse gases, atmospheric scientists have largely overlooked lowly soot particles. But black carbon is now a hot topic among researchers and politicians. Jeff Tollefson investigates.
Data could confirm presence of water on the moon Shubhadeep Choudhury Tribune News Service Bangalore, June 28 Data obtained by the Indian lunar mission Chandrayaan-1 is slated for release in the next three months. G Madhavan Nair, ISRO chairman, told The Tribune that an international conference was being organised to …
Ahmedabad : India Meteorological Department (IMD), Ahmedabad is set to procure a state-of-the-art Doppler Radar to track weather conditions more accurately in and around city. According to IMD officials, this sophisticated weather prediction system that can detect weather conditions within a radius of 500 km, will be in place by …
Bangalore: Megha-Tropiques, a satellite to study tropical weather and climate, is in an advanced stage of development and likely to be launched in December, according to C.B.S. Dutt, programme coordinator of the mission at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). Dr. Dutt, speaking to The Hindu after an International Conference …
RAJENDRA K Pachauri will lead the newly-established Yale Climate and Energy Institute (YCEI), which will support research and outreach, international collaboration, partnerships with business and industry, and green design efforts that can be implemented and tested within Yale and the surrounding region, Yale University president Richard C Levin has announced. …
Houston, March 2 US Indian scientist, Veerbhadran (Ram) Ramanathan, will share top award for environmental achievement, 2009 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, with Prof Richard Alley, for finding warning signs of climate change in the upper atmosphere and in the deepest ice sheets. The $20,0000 award, consisting of cash prize …
Compound used in manufacture of flat panel televisions, computer displays, microcircuits, solar panels is 17,000 times more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide A powerful greenhouse gas is at least four times more prevalent in the atmosphere than previously estimated, according to a team of researchers at Scripps Institution of …
When an equal amount of sulphate (deposited by acid rain) was added, it reduced methane emission by 43 per cent. Adding sulphate to soil in paddy fields is a popular method of controlling methane emission, to the tune of up to 70 per cent. In highly polluted countries such as …
JPL Historian Erik Conway provides an overview of the sequence of events that lead to the link between human activity, carbon dioxide, and global warming. Conway also examines how the spaceborne instrument, the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder, has become part of the story. Charles Keeling points out the steady rise in …
A NASA/university team has published the first global satellite maps of the key greenhouse gas carbon dioxide in Earth's mid-troposphere, an area about 8 kilometers, or 5 miles, above Earth. The team's study reveals new information on how carbon dioxide, which directly contributes to climate change, is distributed in Earth's …
This brochure describes the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder. AIRS enhances the quality of global meteorological observations which yields considerable economic benefits through more reliable climate prediction, improved weather forecasts, better understanding of the factors influencing air quality, and mitigation of the economic and human costs of natural hazards. Terra, launched in …
health sciences Hooked, genetically Researchers of the University of Michigan, usa, have cracked the genetic secrets of nicotine addiction. Whether or not one gets hooked to smoking is dependent on a particular variant of a gene
Richard Morgan Toolik Field Station (Alaska): As Anne Giblin was lugging fourfoot tubes of Arctic lakebed mud from her inflatable raft to her nearby lab this summer, she said,
Paris: Climate change could release unexpectedly huge stores of carbon dioxide from Arctic soils, which would in turn fuel a vicious circle of global warming, a new study warned on Sunday. And according to one commentary, current models of climate change have not taken this extra source of greenhouse gas …
Andrew C. Revkin Scientists studying variations in tropical heat and rainfall since the mid-1980s have found a strong link between warm periods and more extreme downpours. The observed rise in the heaviest rains is about twice that produced by computer simulations used to assess human-caused global warming, said the researchers. …
