Renewable energy will contribute 10% of China's energy consumption by 2010, forecasts the country's latest 5-year plan. This ambitious target, equivalent to the energy produced from burning 300 million tonnes of coal, was announced by the country's National Development and Reform Commission last week.
As many amphibians face the very real threat of being completely wiped out by disease, climate change and pollution, Emma Marris looks at a controversial approach to save some of them in glass boxes.
Till the very last rupeeAn undernourished programmeChanging the climate in '08Still at the bottom When the last UNDP report was launched, it raised eyebrows as it suggested that developing countries like India take on emission cuts in addition to the action taken by the richer countries. United Nations Development Programme …
IF the world is going to sharply reduce the amount of carbon dioxide pumped into the atmosphere by midcentury, then many businesses will have to go carbon neutral, bringing their net emissions of the greenhouse gas to zero. GREEN GIANTS Algae, which have a high energy value per pound and …
Look around you. Your house may soon be swallowed by the sea. According to a report released by Greenpeace, which has inputs from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Columbia University of the USA, West Bengal is one of the states in the country most vulnerable to climate change …
In an effort to create awareness among students about global warming and its challenges, Paschimbanga Vigyan Mancha in collaboration with state science and technology department, organised a seminar on "Global Warming: Crisis and Management' at Ashutosh College today. Mr Dipak Chakraborty, chief scientist of state Pollution Control Board, pointed out …
Greenpeace India, an international environmental organisation, has launched its paper, Blue Alert- climate migrants in South Asia: Estimates and solutions, in the city on Tuesday. This is a part of the organisation's emphasis on the crisis that will be faced by the South Asian region if global warming is not …
In the scientific equivalent of the board game Clue, teams of biologists have been sifting spotty evidence and pointing to various culprits in the widespread vanishing of harlequin frogs. The amphibians, of the genus Atelopus
Today, with the world already reeling from the initial ravages of climate change, the big question before us is whether we can trust the developed countries that are responsible, in the first instance for bringing the world to the brink of a climate holocaust, to change their unsustainable life styles …
Climate change is dulling the hearing of fish and making it more difficult for them to find a home, Australian researchers say. More carbon in the atmosphere means less calcium in the water and consequently poorer hearing in fish, who use hearing as much as sight to locate a habitat. …
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi and US Congressional Delegation on Monday discussed with leading Indian Industrialists various opportunities of collaboration on clean and renewable energy solutions, in order to promote growth and curb greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change. Pelosi and industry leaders participated …
Water experts and economists on Monday called upon the authorities concerned to make best use of water resources, the lifeline of Bangladesh's agricultural economy, to meet future challenges with climate change threats looming large. They warned that the country might face serious crisis unless a compatible approach was taken for …
Everyone talks about the future weather, but so far nobody has done much about it, not even the many people and politicians convinced that climate change will be a serious problem. This situation comes as no surprise to the behavioral researchers who have been studying the human brain's penchant for …
The last few decades since the mid-1970's, the average temperature in many regions of our planet has been increasing dramatically and many countries have experienced extreme climatic conditions. Frequency and intensity of flood, drought, high temperature etc. have been observed in some parts of Asia and Africa in recent decades. …
"We have to create awareness about our country's rich flora and fauna and its conservation and ensure that people understand that the preservation of it can provide them livelihood. Only then can we achieve a viable conservation model for the country,' said senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh at the T. …
The new government of South Korea, among the world's largest emitters of greenhouse gases, plans to cap emissions at 2005 levels for the next five years despite Seoul's exemption from cuts under the Kyoto protocol. The environment ministry presented the proposal to freeze emissions until 2012 on Friday in a …
Soot from biomass burning, diesel exhaust has 60 percent of the effect of carbon dioxide on warming but mitigation offers immediate benefits Black carbon, a form of particulate air pollution most often produced from biomass burning, cooking with solid fuels and diesel exhaust, has a warming effect in the atmosphere …
The use of coal will continue the world over because of its abundant and cheap supply, but Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS) can be a crucial technology to check its global-warming carbon dioxide emissions, says a new study by Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The CCS deployment will not only help …
Sir, A profoundly ill-conceived decision by the European Union leaders on March 14 could pave the way for a global trade war over climate policy. The decision opens up the possibility for the EU to impose trade barriers on countries with a less ambitious climate agenda than the EU. The …
