State of the Climate in Asia 2024
<p>The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing
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The leapfrog factor: clearing the air in Asian cities
Captures 10 years of action, impacts and learning to address the complex air pollution challenge in Asia. This book is a survival guide for Asian cities trying to steer their way out of the pollution haze.
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Fowl Play
Is an avian flu pandemic imminent? As panic sends the world into a flutter, the Indian response still struggles to take wing, discover padmaparna ghosh and t v jayan
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Pipeline for peace
Environmentalists and non-governmental organisations (ngos) in the Caspian region surrounding the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (btc) pipeline have voiced concerns about the proposed route for the pipeline.
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viral cancer: The fusion of human cells is a normal process that leads, for instance, to the formation of muscle and bone. Viral infections can also cause cell fusion, but such cells are generally
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Brown clouds are a transcontinental issue
Asian Brown Clouds created a lot of heat in South Asia, a few years ago see: Aerial Raid, Down To Earth, August 15, 2002 . Now the chief proponent of the phenomenon, <font class='UCASE'>Veerabhadran Ramanathan</font>, director of the Center for A
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Safety considerations for genetically engineered rice
Rice feeds more than half of the world
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The salutary influence of irrigation on human settlement, economy and political power in pre-modern southeast Asia
The tropical monsoon rhythm for over centuries obviously occasioned the development of water works which facilitated wet rice cultivation in pre-modern Southeast Asia.
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ENSO control on the south Asian monsoon through the length of the rainy season
Being an integral effect of sub-seasonal rain spells over the season, the seasonal mean south Asian monsoon (SAM) rainfall could be affected by change in the length of the rainy season (LRS). An objective definition of the duration of the SAM season has, however, been lacking.
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Conservation corridors
Asia to have its first cross country linkages of fragmented habitats
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The gardens of appropriation
Nature's Government: Science, Imperial Britain, and the