The proposed Green India Mission would fail to make significant difference if the policy of sacrificing the existing natural forests for the so-called developmental programmes continues unabated. One of the 8 Missions under National action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) is Green India Mission (GIM). Its draft Mission document states the main objective as doubling

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New York Times article highlights video featuring OSU’s Lonnie Thompson on vanishing Himalayan glaciers. Photo Source: David Breashears/GlacierWorks  

A heat wave generating 100 degree-plus highs in the area ended on Monday. In June, flash flooding assaulted the city, in May there was a tornado threat, in December a blizzard. Now, drought is becoming a factor in parts of Oklahoma, a weather official said. Elsewhere around the world, devastating floods occurred in Pakistan and

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Seventeen years less a day after Kim Campbell was sworn in as the first woman Prime Minister of Canada, Julia Gillard ascended to the Prime Minister’s office here in Australia, the first woman to ever do so. That was way back on June 24. Unfortunately for Gillard, it now looks like the comparisons with Campbell

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Four years ago, I met Al Gore and saw his presentation on climate change. I don’t want to sound alarmist, but the scenario that emerged from our discussions was earth-shattering, to say the least. I realized with pain and anguish that the world as I know will never be the same again. The snow-capped mountains,

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Is the world close to reaching finite ecological limits on the production capacity of animal agriculture? Flooding inundating more than a fifth of Pakistan in recent weeks may demonstrate that the limits have already been exceeded, doing catastrophic harm to more than 20 million displaced people and 30 million livestock, plus untold millions of dogs,

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This summer, climate change, or global warming, has arguably established itself as a reality to be reckoned with. Greenhouse gases are heating up the earth’s atmosphere and, as a result, global weather conditions now seem to have gone truly haywire. Temperatures are unusually high in certain places, while rain in other places is causing unprecedented

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While world leaders gather at the United Nations, Summiters Summit to Save the Himalayas Campaign, which started at the Copenhagen climate change meeting in December 2009, will be marching in front of the UN Headquarters in New York with the plea ‘Save the Himalayas from the Impact of Climate Change’. Confirming the date and venue,

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A review of the IPCC chairman’s financial relationships reveals a scrupulously honest man has been much maligned. Has anyone been as badly maligned as Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)? In December, the Sunday Telegraph carried a long and prominent feature written by Christopher Booker and Richard North, titled: Questions

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With new reports of flood-related calamity in Pakistan today, it is time to launch a different sort of international response to the problem in the Indus River Valley. Because as tragic as this disaster that has shattered the lives of perhaps as many as three New York Cities full of people has been, it is

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