An investigation by the Spanish Scientifc Council (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, CSIC) reveals that the large impacts occurred during the last ice age maintain their effects on the current distribution of dung beetles of the scarab family (Scarabaeidae). The presence of these beetles in Europe seems to be more influenced by the climate of [...]
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Indian Express: Former President APJ Abdul Kalam has emphasised an urgent need to evolve a global energy independence policy for 2030. Speaking at the FE-EVI Green Business Leadership Awards, he said climate change and energy policy should be integrated to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions. “By 2030, we should evolve an energy independence policy that [...]
Indian Express: Extra-toasty summers are going to be a mainstay if greenhouse gas levels continue to rise and tropical regions may see an irreversible bump in temperatures within the next 20 to 60 years, a new study has warned. In the study to be published in the journal Climate Change, researchers at the Stanford University [...]
Times of India: India lost much more than it gained at the Cancun climate change meeting in December 2010, an internal assessment of the government, accessed by TOI, reveals. For instance, not only did India open itself up formally to international scrutiny of its actions, the government also agreed to let the US off the [...]
The Hindu: The National Mission for a Green India with a planned investment of $10.3 billion over the next 10 years can have a major developmental impact in more ways than one. Such a massive exercise can raise fresh natural capital that is so vital for the tens of millions of people who depend on [...]
Republica: In a symbolic demonstration asking the Constituent Assembly (CA) members to sweep off the political dust and draft the Constitution in the extended period, activists gathered around the CA building on a muggy Sunday morning. Organized by the Facebook group, Nepal Unites, which has been proactively staging events to engage and participate the youth [...]
Alternet: The new book “100 Places to Remember Before They Disappear” highlights what will be lost if we don’t take action now on global warming. A father’s desire to show his children the consequences of climate change culminated in the book, 100 Places to Remember Before They Disappear, which shows some beautiful places in the world [...]
Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad (IIM-A), will help customers identify eco-friendly products. In an initiative to support such products and environment-friendly manufacturing processes in the country, IIM-A will certify products and mark them with a label. Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE) at IIM-A has decided to test and certify eco-friendliness of products. A label [...]
The Gleaner: An ominous frontal system dropping rain has ushered in this year’s hurricane season. Today is World Environment Day. The weather watchers are predicting up to 16 Atlantic storms this year as a period of more frequent and more powerful hurricanes swirls on. The 2011 Atlantic hurricane season will be “very active”, with five [...]
Times News: Travelling on main roads of the city can’t just make one lose one’s cool because of problems related to traffic flow. According to Greening Chandigarh Action Plan 2011-12 released by the UT administration’s forest department on World Environment Day on Sunday, noise pollution on roads like Madhya Marg, Dakshin Marg, Jan Marg and [...]
Times of India: Concerned about global warming and climate change? Then put aside fossil fuels and deforestation for a while and look closer home and mind the eggs and milk on your table. A study by The Humane Society International HSI, the global arm of The Humane Society of the United States ( HSUS) fact [...]
Times of India: The British Council and the Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) have invited applications to apply for the ‘International Climate Champions 2011.’ Twenty-five champions from across India will be selected this year. The programme is aimed at young people aged between 18 and 21 years with an active interest in the environment and [...]
DailyStar: Planet Earth is our common home. In this entire universe, earth is the only known planet where living organisms can survive, evolve and regenerate. All the life-forms ranging from amoeba to blue whale, from algae to giant redwood tree and of course the human race totally depend on the natural resources of this blue [...]
CO2Science: Many people are worried that the increase in temperature predicted by the IPCC to result from the ongoing rise in the air’s CO2 content will be so great and occur so fast that many species of plants living on mountainsides will not be able to migrate upward in elevation rapidly enough to avoid extinction. [...]
Deccanherald: Drastic effects of climate change are seen in the Himalayas as water resources are depleting in South Asian countries. Crop and fuel prices have been rising rapidly in all South Asian countries: India, Nepal, Bhutan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Maldives and others because we do not have enough of both. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate [...]
Paper CO2Science: The authors write that “despite the obvious importance of the Himalayan glaciers as water sources for downstream lowlands of south Asia, and despite the growing number of local and regional glacier studies, Himalayan glacier response to climate change is poorly known (Zemp and Haeberli, 2007), mainly because long-term and continuous records of glacier [...]
Salon News: Worldwide total more than doubles in one year as experts point to climate change! About 42 million people were forced to flee their homes because of natural disasters around the world in 2010, more than double the number during the previous year, experts said Monday. One reason for the increase in the figure [...]
