Changing climate patterns can lead to disastrous health impacts, especially in developing countries like India, a leading scientist has warned, and urged governments and policy makers to pay more attention to researching the linkages between climate change and public health. Prof Anthony J McMichael, a fellow at the National Centre …
Not so long ago, an Indian company selling carbon credits had a cache of glamour that business-as-usual competitors could only envy. Not any more. By the look of things, if you are planning to enter the carbon credit market, be prepared for 60 months of hair-raising suspense. The nub of …
Scientists and officials from across the world meet in Thailand this week for the first formal talks in the long process of drawing up a replacement for the Kyoto climate change pact by the end of 2009. Around 190 nations agreed in Bali last year to start the two-year negotiations …
Tens of millions of people switched off lightbulbs this weekend as part of a global campaign to throw the spotlight on climate change, organisers of the Australian-led
There is an urgent need to popularise renewable energy sources such as small hydro, biomass, solar, wind, etc., as the first and possibly the most viable option. But the general trend has been to consider it as an option of the poor. Observing this at the North East India Energy-2008 …
People switched off lights across the world on Saturday, dimming buildings, hotels, restaurants and bars to show concern at global warming. Up to 30 million people were expected to switch off their lights for 60 minutes by the time "Earth Hour'
Global warming may spell doom for some of the Orissa's heritage sites, including Puri's Jagannath temple and Konark Sun temple, according to a recent Greenpeace report. The global environmental NGO's
One vision of a "polar city' in an overheated world. (Illustration by Deng Cheng-hong)Danny Bloom, a freelance writer, translator and editor living in Taiwan, is on a one-man campaign to get people to seriously consider a worst-case prediction of the British chemist and inventor James Lovelock: life in "polar cities' …
Earth Hour (8 pm to 9 pm) may have gone unobserved in many parts of the State on Saturday, but not for Aaron Pereira, a first year BA student residing at Fontainhas in Panjim. Aaron was kept busy for most part of the day sending e-mails and contacting friends to …
India's first centre dedicated to monitoring climate change and finding country-specific solutions was opened at Anna University by R.K. Pachauri, Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, on Friday. "Tamil Nadu has always been a few steps a head of the nation when it comes to innovation. The centre …
Climate scientists from the UK and India will join hands to study the impact of global warming on crop production in India, where according to studies 10 to 40 per cent of crop production is going to be affected in the near future. Indian scientists working in the field will …
Next week, government negotiators will gather in Bangkok, Thailand, for the latest round of international climate change talks. Once again the focus will be on mitigating climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Yet for many poor communities in poor countries, mitigation is not the most pressing issue. Climate change …
Coal is our cheapest and most abundant source of fossil-fuel energy. We probably have enough to keep the world powered for hundreds of years. Trouble is, the carbon emissions from burning it all would make the planet uninhabitable long before then. Is there a way to get the energy without …
Could biofuels do more damage to the climate than the fossil fuels they replace? That's the fear casting doubt on the wisdom of a law that from next month will require a certain proportion of vehicle fuel to come from biological sources.
Inflation management has to remain centre stage in macroeconomic policymaking. The price of everything is likely to be determined by what the oil cartel can squeeze out of us today. THIS column last month had in its title
While the least developed countries suffer the worst effects of climate change, brought about by the actions of the rich, they have no voice in global warming talks. On September 27 last year, Fakhruddin Ahmed, the Chief Adviser
It won't take more than a few decades for many Himalayan glaciers to disappear, leaving the Ganga, Indus and Brahmaputra as seasonal rivers. These glaciers are receding just like others at low latitudes. Data from almost 30 such reference glaciers in nine mountain ranges indicate that between 2004-06, the average …
