The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
By increasing the acidity levels of oceans, global warming could spell doom for corals by 2065. Katherine Richardson, a researcher from Denmark's department of marine ecology, gave this warning during the EuroScience Open Forum 2004. According to her, levels of carbon dioxide (co2)
start telling stories: Being a maths wizard and a great storyteller may appear completely different, but a new study by Canada's University of Waterloo suggests that preschool children's storytelling abilities are predictive of their mathematical ability. In the study, children aged three and four were shown a book that contained …
the George W Bush administration in the us has acknowledged for the first time, though only tacitly, that human activities cause global warming. But any major policy change by the us government regarding climate change doesn't seem to be in the offing. The commerce and energy secretaries in the Bush …
Short Wave & Medium Wave Transmission Has it been difficult, of late, to tune in to radio stations such as Radio Ceylon and bbc? Has the crackle or signal fade-out, as you tune in to medium- and short-wave stations on your radio, increased? Have you been wondering why? Now, an …
function map() { var popurl="image/20040915/8-map.jpg" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=400,height=425,scrollbars=yes") } devastating floods in Bangladesh claimed at least 800 human lives and seriously affected 35 million people in 39 out of the country's 64 districts last month, stumping experts and politicians: while the timing and magnitude caught the former completely off-guard, the government's initial …
infamous five: Eight US states and the city of New York are taking five of US' biggest power companies to court. Reason: they are some of the biggest contributors to global warming in the country. The attorneys general from California, Connecticut, Iowa, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, Wisconsin, …
the major rivers of northern India and Pakistan will flow strongly for the next 40 years, but thereafter they will be reduced to a mere trickle. This is the message of the first decade-by-decade analysis of the rivers, which are fed by the glaciers of the Himalaya. The analysis has …
THE twenty-first century's just begun, and already its ecological contours have begun to appear. Hollywood has declared global warming will occur, spectacularly. But the day after tomorrow might bring about on Earth another
Starting before industrialised Germany and the UK, India has perhaps promoted renewables the longest though a dedicated establishment. The country's Ministry of Non-conventional Energy Sources (MNES) is one of its kind in the world. India has the fifth largest installed wind capacity in the world at 2400 MW. In 2003 …
At Renewables 2004 "an international action plan will be on the agenda, including actions and commitments by governments, international organisations and stakeholders,' says the conference announcement document. "The conference outcome will include arrangements for a follow-up and a mechanism to share information on progress in implementing the international action plan.' …
According to IEA’s factsheet, Renewables in global energy supply, the wind energy sector has grown at more than 52 per cent per annum since 1971, and solar power by 32 per cent per annum. Renewables in 2000 accounted for 13.8 per cent of the world’s total primary energy supply (electricity, …
There is a prominently held view that dissemination of renewable energy technology is marred by high costs. It's true that a few technologies like wind power have become cheaper, but others are still expensive. Solar photovoltaics (PV) and wind energy now cost one tenth of what they did in early …
There is a prominently held view that dissemination of renewable energy technology is marred by high costs. It’s true that a few technologies like wind power have become cheaper, but others are still expensive. Solar photovoltaics (PV) and wind energy now cost one-tenth of what they did in the early …
According to IEA's factsheet, Renewables in global energy supply, the wind energy sector has grown at more than 52 per cent per annum since 1971, and solar power by 32 per cent per annum. Renewables in 2000 accounted for 13.8 per cent of the world's total primary energy supply (electricity, …
function india_table() { var popurl="html/20040531_india.htm" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=450,height=380,scrollbars=yes") } Starting before industrialised Germany and the UK, India has perhaps promoted renewables the longest though a dedicated establishment. The country's Ministry of Non-conventional Energy Sources (MNES) is one of its kind in the world. India has the fifth-largest installed wind capacity in the …
