Sushmita Dutta The Sun with its family of eight planets – now that the distant ice-covered Pluto is no more a ‘planet’–make our galaxy, the Milky Way; but of all the planets the Earth turned out to be the luckiest. This is because it is the only planet where life became possible, at least far

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Stanly Johny “The most vulnerable country in the world to climate change is India,” said Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh a few days ahead of the Copenhagen Summit on Climate Change held in December 2009. This was more than a candid statement of an “emerging power”. The government of India seems fully convinced of the danger

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Press Release of Press Information Bureau Government of India, Wednesday, April 21, 2010 Estimates of rate of recession and date for the disappearance of Himalayan Glaciers have recently been the subject matter of some of the news reports appearing in the media. In this context Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has stated subsequently that

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This article appears in the April 23, 2010 issue of Executive Intelligence Review. by Ramtanu Maitram, [A PDF version of this article is available here] India’s unwillingness to rejuvenate its vast agricultural sector, by not pushing through water management programs, power, education, etc., verges on criminal neglect. But, there is a lesson in India’s story

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Wednesday, 21 April 2010 14:09 Brownfield Ag Network, By Ken Anderson, April 20, 2010, www.brownfieldagnews.com The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has issued a new report that claims the dairy sector accounts for around four percent of all global greenhouse gas emissions. That figure includes emissions associated with the production, processing and transportation of

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Written by James Heiser    Wednesday, 21 April 2010 07:39 What grade would you give climate change science? A year ago, most Americans probably would have given it fairly high marks; scientific minds are understandably well-respected in our culture, and we are habituated to giving the prognostications of scientists the benefit of the doubt. Of

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