Livestock production has become a major envioronmental management challenge. When its full commodity chain is included, the sector contributes to global warming, causes
Several citizens' groups including environmentalists and parliamentarians joined hands and called for a ban on soft drinks manufactured by MNCs Pepsi and Coke, which have been given a clean chit by
Mr V.K. Raina, an expert on glacier studies, pooh-poohed claims that glaciers on the Himalayas were receding at an alarming rate. He described such reports as more of scientific fiction than fact,
Previous studies have found that atmospheric brown clouds partially offset the warming effects of greenhouse gases. This finding suggests a tradeoff between the impacts of reducing emissions of aerosols and greenhouse gases.
Variations in fire regimes can be inferred from changes in the abundance of sedimentary charcoal found in lake and bog sediments. When analysed with pollen data, inferences can be made about past vegetation dynamics and climate as well. The analysis of high-resolution charcoal records generally
One of the world's leading climate scientists has challenged those who question the impact of the human population on global warming to defend their claims that car and factory emissions of carbon
Rising sea levels have submerged two islands in the Sunderbans, where tigers roam through mangrove forests in the Ganges river delta, and a dozen more islands are under threat, scientists say. A
In the first expedition of its kind in the world, a Sino-India team of experts will climb up to the sources of the mighty Brahmputra and Sutlej rivers to collect data for developing a model to know
Foreign business have embraced an obscure United Nations backed programme as a favoured approach to limiting global warming, but the early efforts have revealed some hidden problems. Under the
More than 8,000 auto running on CNG and just five pumps to cater to them. Worse, just two of them run round-the-clock. Long queues for fuel refill, too many competitors, and the recent decision of
<p>Southern Africa is a region facing multiple stressors, including chronic, recurrent food insecurity and persistent threats of famine. Climate information, including seasonal climate forecasts, has been
THE EUROPEAN Union's environment chief said on Monday he will seek a 30% cut in EU greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 as the bloc tries to set an example for the world on how to fight global warming.
The European Commission has agreed to a compromise proposal over its plans to include the aviation industry in its carbon-trading scheme, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday. Citing an
Planting trees could make global warming worse, according to research. Creating forests has become big business, but in some parts of the world it could actually raise temperatures, a team of
2006 is set to be the world's sixthwarmest year since records began 150 years ago, the World Meteorological Organization said, offering more evidence of a trend most scientists blame on greenhouse
The current year is expected to go down in history as the sixth warmest year on record with prolonged drought in some regions, heavy rainfall and flooding in others and deadly typhoons in south-east
Industrial Development Bank of India Ltd (IDBI) on Friday entered into a non-exclusive memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Washington-headquartered International Finance Corporation (IFC) to
Scientists have discovered an extinct animal the size of a small squirrel that lived in Chinal atleast 125million years ago and soared among the
Global warming could devastate European ski resorts within decades, forcing lower-altitude resorts to close and threatening winter sports which now attract up to 80 million tourists a year. A report
The Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change was released on Oct. 30 and became front page news because of its striking conclusion that we should immediately invest 1% of worldeconomic
