M-20 CAMPAIGN
Disaster In Uttarakhand, India: Huge Death Toll
The Mountain Tsunami 20 June: The post disaster situation in Uttarakhand mountain region is becoming worst as the information is coming related to death toll due to the impact of heavy rain fall and cloud burst. It has been recorded that huge number of people are stranded at places and are seeking help for food,
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Recent Posts
- Disaster In Uttarakhand, India: Huge Death Toll
- Mainstreaming Climate Change in Bhutan and Nepal: A Synthesis Report
- Bhutanese Schools To Serve As Database For Climate Change Study
- Call For “No Regret” Climate Adaptation Strategies
- The Himalayas Are Changing For The Worse
- Shimla Chosen For International Project To Lower Greenhouse Gases
- Pakistan’s Dangerous Negligence Of Climate Change
- Solar Wars Threaten Climate Fight
- Sino-India S&T Cooperation Set For August Launch
- NASA’s AirSWOT Program To Measure Planet’s Water Resources
News
Call For “No Regret” Climate Adaptation Strategies
The absence of accurate climate prediction models should not dissuade countries from choosing the best ways to adapt to a changing climate, says a new report published in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences. “Even when our knowledge is incomplete, we often have robust grounds for choosing best-bet adaptation actions and pathways, by
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Shimla Chosen For International Project To Lower Greenhouse Gases
Times of India: The Queen of the Hills, as Shimla was fondly called by the British, has been shortlisted for a global project to lower greenhouse gas emissions on the pattern of European cities, a municipal official said. The Shimla Municipal Corporation is one of six Indian cities selected for implementing the “Promoting low emission
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Solar Wars Threaten Climate Fight
ChinaDaily: Amid the gloomy news of the worsening impact of climate change is a bright spark: the dramatic fall in the cost of solar energy. This source of clean and renewable energy could help power the world without emitting greenhouse gases. Solar energy has traditionally been more expensive to use than carbon-intensive coal or oil.
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NASA’s AirSWOT Program To Measure Planet’s Water Resources
Huffingtonpost: NASA’s AirSWOT Program To Measure Planet’s Water Resources, Ocean’s Impact On Climate Change. When you think about NASA, water probably isn’t the first thing that comes to mind. But NASA knows that access to fresh water and the impacts of climate change will be two of this century’s biggest challenges. Their ongoing AirSWOT mission
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Global Warming May Up Flood Risk In India, Southeast Asia
Economic Times: Unchecked global warming may increase the risk of flooding at the end of this century in 42 per cent of the Earth’s land surface, including parts of India, Southeast Asia and Africa, a new study has warned. According to a research team led by Yukiko Hirabayashi at the University of Tokyo’s Institute of
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Bonn Climate Change Conference 3-13 June 2013
The thirty-eighth sessions of the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI 38) and the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA 38), as well as the second part of the second session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (ADP 2-2) is taking place at Maritim Hotel from 3-14 June
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Toolkit For Urban Government To Climate Resilience Building
ICLEI-ACCCRN Guide and Toolkit to help municipal governments in Asia build resilience to climate change. ICLEI has finalized a new guide and toolkit aimed at helping municipal governments in Asia build City Resilience Strategies to cope with the growing impacts of climate change as part of its engagement with the Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience
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Adaptation Ideas
Beaufitul Vertical Garden Ideas
Good Home Designs: Their fashion begun a few years ago, but not very many people have heard of them before. The number of apartment owners who appeal to architects and landscapers to put in house vertical garden grows every month. It is clear that the trend of 2013 is the kind of pictures that can
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Bhutan
Bhutanese Schools To Serve As Database For Climate Change Study
Ph.News Yahoo: Come July, students and teachers in 20 schools will get the opportunity to monitor climate change in the country using scientific instruments worth US$150,000 donated by Karuna Foundation in the United States. Schools using the instruments will serve as database for the climate change study, the first of its kind, carried out by
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India
Disaster In Uttarakhand, India: Huge Death Toll
The Mountain Tsunami 20 June: The post disaster situation in Uttarakhand mountain region is becoming worst as the information is coming related to death toll due to the impact of heavy rain fall and cloud burst. It has been recorded that huge number of people are stranded at places and are seeking help for food,
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Nepal
Climate Change Calls For Localized Research, Technology, knowledge
eKantipur: Where are the Nepali farmers? I might sound like I am asking the stupidest question ever. After all, unlike in Canada where I am residing currently and where only two percent of the 33 million Canadians live and work in farms, farmers are everywhere in Nepal—tens of millions of them. To be precise, according
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Pakistan
Pakistan’s Dangerous Negligence Of Climate Change
Dawn: Pakistan is no stranger to being plagued by multiple crises. News headlines are usually dominated by issues like terrorism, extremism and power shortage but an even more alarming danger could affect the future of Pakistan if it is not tackled on a priority basis. The dangerous threat we all know as climate change has
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Books
Mainstreaming Climate Change in Bhutan and Nepal: A Synthesis Report
This report is a synthesis of two studies that sought to understand the policy contexts for addressing climate change adaptation and key conservation issues in Nepal and Bhutan, which have many significant commonalities and differences. The purpose of this synthesis is to compare the policy contexts for mainstreaming climate change adaptation in Bhutan and Nepal,
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Glaciers
The Himalayas Are Changing For The Worse
Business Mirror: Residents of Jhirpu Phulpingkatt, a village nestled in the foothills of the Himalayas, about 110 kilometers from Nepal’s capital Kathmandu, are on red alert. As the impacts of climate change batter the towering mountains above them, these villagers on the banks of the Bhote Koshi River have started to dread the sound of
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Technologies
Green Warriors Turn To Engineering To Save The Earth
New Indian Express: The recent announcement by climate watchers that carbon dioxide level in the atmosphere has crossed a psychologically significant barrier of 400 parts per million raised all the intended alarm bells world over. In a field which has been continually consuming a lot of public attention, and where the public are fed bits
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IPCC
Climate Models:Epic Failure or Spot on Consistent with Observed Warming?
Global Warming: NASA scientist Roy Spencer recently posted on his Web site some startling graphs produced by John Christy, his colleague at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. The graph immediately below compares the linear-trend temperature projections of 73 climate models with the linear trend of observed temperatures for the bulk tropical atmosphere during 1979-2012. The 73 models are
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Global Warming
Climate Change Led To Decline Of Ice Age Trees: Study
One World SA: Sustained global warming will wipe out an uncountable number of plant and animal species, says a new report based on a path-breaking study of similar climatic changes through the ice age. In a study that could show how rapid changes in climate could devastate global ecosystems, a group of British scientists have
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