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 …
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." …
each plant, like an entrepreneur, has an economic strategy for subsistence. Some plants live like the proverbial hare, following a live fast, die young strategy. Their leaves produce and consume energy quickly, making them more susceptible to weather changes or pest attacks. Other plants are tortoise-like, taking a live slowly …
India and Global Climate Change belongs to that happy genre of books that are written pedantically and don't make many concessions for lay readers. But if you persevere you will be rewarded because the subject itself is so gripping. And that is because among the myriad conversations taking place on …
better chick-pea variety: Scientists from New Delhi-based Indian Agricultural Research Institute have developed a drought-resistant variety of chick-pea. The variety, Pusa-1053, has a yield of about 1,300 kilogrammes per hectare, which is significantly higher than the 700 kilogrammes produced per hectare by the traditional varieties of the seeds. more heat, …
function glacier() { var popurl="html/20040331_glacier.htm" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=350,height=400,scrollbars=yes") } even as the Indian scientific community continues to haggle over the extent of global warming impact on the Himalayan ice-fields, a study indicates that four glaciers of the Baspa basin of Himachal Pradesh face terminal retreat. In other words they may dry up. …
I write this to provoke, not to insult. It is increasingly important to understand that in the modern world, the term "sound science" is becoming the choicest of insults. Science is a passive hireling, not to bring policy reform, but to delay, prevaricate and to dismiss. And scientists are hired …
The Prime Minister of uk, Tony Blair, has made a New Year resolution: to put pressure on us President George W Bush to tackle climate change. The intention is to challenge the us administration more forcefully than before on the need for an international effort to fight global warming. It …
with efforts to combat global warming doddering, the rising temperatures may lead to the extinction of as many as 380 animal and plant species. These are the findings of an international team of researchers, who used global warming projections for 2050 to assess extinction risk for species found in areas …
to date, carbon dioxide has been mainly blamed for global warming. But black carbon particles (commonly known as soot) have also done a fair amount of damage, a recent study indicates. As per its findings, black soot, the dusty by-product of the incomplete combustion of fossil fuels, is responsible for …
GLOBAL warming doesn't sound quite right when half of India is reeling under a cold wave. We apologise. But the World Meteorological Organisation recently announced that 2003 was the third hottest year since weather records started. The first and the second warmest years are also in the collective rapid access …
environmental damage can at times beget human diseases. It has been discovered that the destruction of the Amazon rainforest is encouraging the growth of a malaria parasite. During a three-year long study, researchers from the us-based Johns Hopkins University collected 15,000 mosquitoes swarming around a jungle road in northeast Peru, …
The ratification of the Kyoto Protocol (KP) has become a great game between the Russian bear and the EU/Japan, very much reminiscent of the Great Game played between the same bear and the British bulldog in the late 19th century over Northwest India & Afghanistan. Of course, the new entrant …
What will we see at the ninth conference of parties (CoP-9) to the UN climate change convention? Three things come to my mind. First, and the most anticipated one, is the set of rules for land use, land-use change, and forestry (LULUCF) projects in the clean development mechanism (CDM); second, …
AXEL MICHAELOWA Climate policy is a titanic clash of interests. Emitters of greenhouse gases (GHG), both rich and poor, do not want to bear costs of reducing emissions. Consequently, implementation of climate policy measures on a national scale has often been stalled. Rich and poor alike want to protect themselves …
