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Usurping a citizen’s private property may very well be considered a type if violence, especially when it is some one’s source of livelihood. Earlier this month, The west Bengal government did just that: t enforced a ban on cars older than 15 years to curb debilitating pollution.
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Monday,10 August, 2009 | Hits: 44
India is staring at a deficit of almost 28% in its monsoon rainfall between 1 June and 8 August, the first such shortfall in seven years.
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Monday,10 August, 2009 | Hits: 75
A series of ICAR studies on the impact of climate change can help farmers modify their cultivation patterns.
That climate change and agriculture are interrelated is well known. Agriculture contributes, albeit only partly, to global warming — by spewing greenhouse gases (GHGs) — and, in turn, gets affected by its consequences.
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Monday,10 August, 2009 | Hits: 125
The Arctic Ocean has given up tens of thousands more square kilometers of ice in a relentless summer of melt, with scientists watching through satellite eyes for a possible record low polar ice cap.
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Zoology experts at M S University (MSU) have found that toads in Gujarat are fast disappearing due to low rainfall and industrial pollution. For the first time in India, MSU experts are doing a research on the impact of environmental pollution and climatic change on amphibians, which are often referred to as indicator species for environmental change.
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Sunday,09 August, 2009 | Hits: 56
The global economic data are encouraging at this moment. Obviously, this is good for the steel industry and for those who are planning new investments. However, the steel industry in India, as also globally, has different opportunities to tap and challenges to face. Most importantly, the industry has to gear itself up to meet the challenges of global warming and climate change as they grow. Not only that the way steel is produced will have to be changed but also the product specifications and the way the same is used will also require forced alteration.
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Sunday,09 August, 2009 | Hits: 71
R. V. SMITH recalls the majesty of the Yamuna river, now almost dead.
The pollution of the Yamuna and the plans being made to clean the river have so far not yielded concrete results, with some even going so far as to affirm that the river will never be clean again. And yet the Yamuna was considered a majestic river even during 1947-48, when plentiful fish could be caught in it and provided livelihood to several families of fishermen.
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Sunday,09 August, 2009 | Hits: 75
Developing nations can’t shirk their role as co-managers of the planet as they did at the climate summit
The G-8 climate action agenda calling for 80 per cent reduction in emission by 2050 has been rightly criticised as mere hot air. Without any specific short-term targets or a roadmap to get there, lofty declarations like the one made in L’Aquila could end up as ineffective as the Kyoto Protocol. The only concrete ‘achievement’ of the G-8 was its commitment to keep mean temperature under two degrees Celsius over pre-industrial levels — essential to prevent irreversible disruption of the global climate system.
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Sunday,09 August, 2009 | Hits: 66
Every percentage point reduction in US emissions is a bigger total cut than the same percentage reduction by India:
The recent exchange between US secretary of state Hillary Clinton and India’s minister of state for environment and forests Jairam Ramesh focused attention on the role of developing countries in negotiations to control climate change. The US media played up India’s temerity at refusing to countenance “legally binding” emission reduction targets for itself as part of a global agreement. One story even felt compelled to note that the minister is “highly educated”. No doubt, Clinton’s remarks in India were partly meant to play to this gallery, and to US politicians who have little understanding of or desire to understand the developing world. Ramesh, too, may have been indulging in some crowd-pleasing of his own. Beyond the clamour, however, the issues remain: What’s to be done, and who should bear what burden?
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Sunday,09 August, 2009 | Hits: 75
During the presidential campaign of 2008 distinguished himself on the economics of speaking far more sensibly about the issue than most of his rivals. Unfortunately, now that he is president, Obama may sign a climate bill that falls far short of his aspirations. Indeed, the legislation making its way to his desk could well be worse than nothing at all.
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Sunday,09 August, 2009 | Hits: 91
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