Hindustantimes: Source of water in northern and central India, the western Himalayan glaciers, are retreating at the fastest rate in India, a new government study has revealed. The most disturbing trend from latest monitoring of 2,190 glaciers in major river basins of India has shown that glaciers in Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir

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World247.net: A survey reveals that the people across the country have observed the impact of climate change but their understanding of climate change is generally poor. Conducted by the National Biodiversity Centre in collaboration with agencies involved in conservation, the survey covered 16 dzongkhags comprising 31 gewogs, 154 villages and 417 households across the country

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Hindustan Times: Vulnerability of Indian forests to climate change will be assessed and remedial measures will be adopted under the Rs 46,000 crore Green India Mission. In a note circulated for Cabinet approval to seek funds to make the mission operational, the environment ministry has proposed that parts of Indian forest, which are most vulnerable

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ZeeNews: In a new development, which is likely to cause fresh tension in Sino-India ties, reports, Monday, claimed that China is planning to divert the waters of Brahmaputa River, from the upper reaches, in order to tackle the severe drought situation prevailing in the country.   The development comes nearly a year after China began

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Timesof India: Taking a lead in reducing the carbon emissions and earning carbon credits for the same, Himachal Pradesh has emerged as the first state in the country to march towards achieving carbon neutrality by having an agreement on Emission Reduction Purchase, a Clean Development Mechanism Bio-Carbon Sub-Project of Himachal Pradesh under Mid Himalayan Watershed

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GlobalResearch: A new report released today by Friends of the Earth International during the UN climate talks in Bonn this week shows that the World Bank Group has been increasing its investments in fossil fuels and promoting corporate-led false solutions to climate change, including carbon trading, that serve to deepen rather than alleviate the current

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Redorbit.com: Phil Jones, the United Kingdom scientist who was targeted in the “ClimateGate” affair, now says global warming since 1995 is statistically significant, a year after telling BBC News that post-1995 warming was not significant. He noted that a year worth of data had pushed the trend past the threshold typically used to assess whether

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Are you passionate about making a positive difference in the world and aged 18-35? I thought you might be interested in applying for WYSE’s flagship International Leadership Programme which takes place this summer, from 31th July – 12th August, at the beautiful Villa Boccella, near Lucca, Italy. WYSE’s world renowned International Leadership Programme provides a

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Full Discussions on Climate Himalaya Initiative’s Poll and Response graph (%): Behaviour Change Communication Group at Linkedin Question: Do you agree with the statement-”International agencies adequately developed Knowledge on Ecology and Sustainable Development in the Mountain Ecosystem of Himalaya” ! Gautam Majumder • I do not agree on the statement fully, partially they may share

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RECOFTC Blog: RECOFTC’s Regan Suzuki thinks focusing on something as small as a stove could make big changes for women in forests. If women were more deliberately considered in REDD+ and development projects, the significant potential of fuel-efficient stoves for improving their lives and reducing deforestation would make it a high priority. When considering underlying

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The Hindu: Investing an additional $40 billion annually in the forestry sector can halve deforestation rates by 2030, increase rates of tree planting by about 140 per cent by the year 2050, and catalyse the creation of millions of new jobs, according to a report by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). Backed by the right

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Business Bhutan: If ever Bhutan disappears from the face of earth, just in case, it is a chilling consolation that it has made into the 100 places on earth to remember before they disappear. A new book ’100 places to remember before they disappear’ written by Co+Life also features Bhutan as one of them. The

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CounterCurrent: An analysis of every country in the World reveals that for a high probability of avoiding  a catastrophic 2 degree C temperature rise (EU policy), at current rates of greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution the World on average must achieve zero emissions in less than 20 years, Australia must cease GHG pollution within 5 years,

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Vancouversun: The world needs to get serious about fighting climate change if it wants to stop an increasing number of natural disasters seen in recent years, because just changing the type of light bulbs we use and recycling our newspapers is not nearly enough to save the environment, cautions a world-renowned author and environmentalist. “The

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China Daily: Scientists raise alarm as prices, population and heat rise. Ciudad Obregon, Mexico The great agricultural system that feeds the human race is in trouble. The rapid growth in farm output of the late 20th century has slowed such that it is failing to keep up with demand, driven by population increases and rising

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NIPCC: Journal of Glaciology: Schmidt and Nusser (2009) 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

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New Agriculturist: A new study has identified hundreds of millions of people who could face disaster if major adaptation efforts do not occur. Produced by the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), the study presents a series of maps which pinpoint areas at risk of crossing ‘climate thresholds’, such as

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Conservation International: Sarshen Marais is currently attending the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meeting in Bonn, Germany. Here, she blogs about a side event on traditional knowledge and climate change adaptation, an event presented by CI, UNESCO, the Indigenous Peoples of Africa Coordinating Committee  and the UN’s World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Read

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IBN Live: Two academicians from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, based on their studies as well as those by researchers in the past, call for a critical reevaluation of the current understanding of past earthquakes in the Himalayas. K Rajendran and C P Rajendran of the Centre for Earth Sciences, IISc, have, in a

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Research Communication IAS.AC.IN: We report here a paleolake record of outburst discovered at ~3245 m asl in the Spituk–Leh valley of the Indus river, Ladakh Himalaya. The >55 m thick sediment package is displayed by megascopic (metre scale) and intense injective liquefactions, slumping and gliding of the lake beds, and mega-scouring by gravelly outflow with

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Hindustan Times: India will conduct its first study on impact of environment on health even though monitoring on air and water pollution is inadequate. The Environment ministry has decided to conduct such a study but has failed to implement its mandate for the 11th five year plan. As per the plan, India was to have

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The Hindu: Change in temperature, quantum and intensity of rainfall coupled with extreme weather conditions would have a long-term impact, particularly on the structure and composition of forests in the Northeastern states of India. The impact of climate change is likely to result in large-scale changes in the biodiversity of the Northeast, a study has

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Financial Express Bd: Bangladesh and the United States (US) are going to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) soon to foster broader cooperation in low carbon development and other areas of climate change. Secretary of the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) Meshbah Ul Alam told the news agency after a bilateral meeting with the

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