Climate sceptics are right. Temperature increases do precede rises in atmospheric carbon dioxide - the opposite of what you would expect if changes in CO2 levels were really driving climate change. That's the verdict of leading atmospheric modeller Peter Cox, a climate expert at the University of Exeter, UK. Yet …
Dengue is spreading in the Americas. Incremental changes in climate could help explain the disease's expansion, according to environmental scientists. But some dengue experts have called the link with climate "alarmist' and scientifically unsound. Original Source
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has assured the nation that though climate change is a global concern, measures under the soon-to-be-submitted National Action Plan will have area specific focus, including effect of global warming on agriculture. Responding to a query by Rajya Sabha member and noted scientist Dr M.S.Swaminathan, who asked …
Only up to powering light bulbs so far, "salt power' is a tantalising if distant prospect as high oil prices make alternative energy sources look more economical. Two tiny projects to mix sea and river water
In parts of the world already facing unreliable food supplies, an uncertain climate adds to the future stress for soils, plants and people. March 20, 2008
The water shortage that threatens humanity will have wide-ranging consequences for agriculture and energy production, requiring significant shifts in the way this precious resource is managed. (editorial) 20 March 2008
Water (either from the sky or the irrigation canal) is often a key factor in determining crop yields, squeezing more crop out of the same drop will be central to one of the biggest challenges of this century: sustainably feeding a population of perhaps 9 billion people in a climate-changed …
With negotiations on evolving a post-Kyoto global framework on climate change getting into a crucial stage, India has decided to form a permanent group of negotiators which will present New Delhi's stand at all international consultations on the issue. The decision to constitute this permanent negotiating team was taken at …
In a bid to check the city's contribution to global warming, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has listed eleven sectors where it will undertake a study of greenhouse emissions. In fact, the BMC will be the first municipal corporation in the country to take up this massive exercise. The agency …
Mitigating the impact of climate change and generating energy for development do not have to be mutually exclusive goals. Scientists, academics and public and private industry representatives from across the country are collaborating with their counterparts in the U.K. to accelerate the development of low-carbon technologies such as hydrogen, fuel …
Expanding the number of carbon credit projects under the United Nations clean development mechanism and streamlining its regulation are key priorities for the coming year, said Rajesh Kumar Sethi, the new chairman of the CDM Executive Board of UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. The Executive Board is the de …
Polyester is a magical material. It is found in just about everything, from clothes to artificial blood vessels. It is tough, retains its original heat-set shape, doesn't wrinkle easily or retain moisture. This is why both rich and not-so-rich happily wear it
Extending the support of the environmentalists to the Indo-US civil nuclear deal, which is in a limbo because of opposition from the Left parties, Nobel Laureate RK Pachauri today said not going ahead with the deal would be a mistake. Pachauri, whose UN Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change received the …
Disagreements between rich and developing countries came into the open today as the world's top 20 greenhouse gas emitters worked to lay the groundwork for a new deal on climate change. The developed and developing countries were wrapping up two days of talks hoped to jumpstart negotiations on a successor …
World and we are taking steps to make it happen. The Montreal Climate Exchange should be activated this year. Besides, we have indicated very publicly our intention to provide exchange services, standardisation, low transaction costs and price transparency in any environment. What is the nature of your tie-up with the …
On the tortuous road to saving the planet from climate change, one traffic rule stands out. Drivers who speed risk paying a price. For the European Union to venture out of the slow lane with a pledge to adopt by 2009 binding targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions is therefore …
U.S. airlines must pay for their carbon dioxide emissions or face a curb on flights to the European Union, the E.U. Transport Commissioner warned on Friday. The green ultimatum was issued by Jacques Barrot as the transatlantic airline market undergoes its biggest shakeup in 30 years when limits on flights …
California, the most populous State in the United States, is going all out to promote "green' technology so as to reduce gas emissions. This is a new pledge made by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger at a Wall Street Journal conference on "green' technology in Santa Barbara, his office said on Saturday. …
Water is life: The impact of water shortage is being felt all over the world, in the industrialised as well as developing countries. At the United Nations, 22nd March is World Water Day. We don't expect people to stop what they are doing and observe a moment of silence
