Not guilty for a change
Global warming is not responsible for Africa s upsurge of malaria
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Greenhouse break
AFTER the world community woke up to mid fact of living in warmer climes, of the first things they did was to jibe Climate Change Convention. ir then, they have been scurrying Wd to create
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El Nino 2015/2016: impact outlook and policy implications
The third Advisory Note on El Nino for Asia-Pacific countries, issued jointly by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) and the Regional Integrated Multi-Hazard
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BASIC Leaders on fast-track to curb global warming by 2011
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Leaders from BASIC countries- Brazil, South Africa, India and China, met in Cape Town to look at a strategy for climate change negotiations<span><span> based on equitable burden-sharing, including historical responsibility for climate change, the need to allow developing countries equitable space for development, and adequate f
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India State of the Environment Report : The Monthly Overview, September 2013
The Kerala government has decided to appeal against two national green tribunal orders that said that the government should take note and adhere to the recommendations of the Western Ghats Expert Ecology Panel (WGEEP) report while approving private and commercial development in eco-sensitive zones. Read more in this September 2013 edition of the Monthly India State of the Environment Report published by the South Asia Environment Portal. Read and Share.
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Some birds respond better to habitat change
it's usually believed that climatic factors like temperature and rainfall have a big say in birds selecting their breeding and feeding ranges. But a new aspect of bird behaviour has come to light
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Past continuous
Remains of asbestos mining industry are still polluting the rivers and air in South Africa
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Global Heat
Climatologists say recent heat waves in India are early signs of global warming due to the greenhouse effect. If so, it will only get worse
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Going hungry
the Food and Agriculture Organisation ( fao ) has recently said that low global cereal stocks for a third year in a row could signal an imminent food crisis. This warning comes despite a good
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Pollution clouds threaten glaciers, health: UN
A dirty brown haze sometimes more than a mile thick is darkening skies not only over vast areas of Asia, but also in the Middle East, southern Africa and the Amazon Basin, changing weather patterns around the world and threatening health and food supplies, the UN reported Thursday.
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Saving species
At a recently held wildlife meet in Cape Town, delegates draft an action plan to conserve migratory species of wild animals
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Time For A Fair Discussion On Black Soot
A recent NY Times articles brings to fore the contribution of Soot, also known as Black Carbon, in the global warming. And how efforts are underway to reign in the global warming by replacing the mud-stoves in villages of India! On the Earth day, a legislation was introduced in US Senate for EPA to assess the options for reducing the black carbon pollution.
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Maize trouble
Hot clime to effect the crop
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TANZANIA
One third of Mount Kilimanjaro's ice fields have completely melted in the last two decades and the rest of the mountain's ice could disappear by 2015, says Lonnie Thom pson, a professor at the us
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World economic and social survey 2013: sustainable development challenges
<p><span id="itro1">According to this new UN report over 80% of the urban population added in the next 15 years will be found in China, India, South Africa,Nigeria, Indonesia and Pakistan & new strategies
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Crying fowl
Mozambique's poultry industry is reeling under a deluge of cheap imports. Domestic farmers are unable to compete with low-priced products from countries such as South Africa, Brazil and Argentina.
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How urban societies can adapt to resource shortage and climate change
<p>With more than half the world’s population now living in urban areas and with much of the world still urbanizing, there are concerns that urbanization is a key driver of unsustainable resource demands. Urbanization also appears to contribute to ever-growing levels of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
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Mapping hotspots of climate change and food insecurity in the global tropics
<p>This latest study has mapped the “global hotspots “ where climate induced food insecurity is most liekly to happen in the future. It covers highly vulnerable population mainly in Africa, Asia and includes India.
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a musician's Yantra
Violinist turned environmentalist Aubrey Meyer has coined the phrase "contraction and convergence" and set the world thinking on the lines of equitable per capita emissions, whoever we are and whichever part of the world we belong to
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Evolution with full stops and commas
Darwinian sapience takes a beating as the notion of "punctuated equilibrium" - which postulates that evolution occurred in sudden fits and starts - gathers shape