India sticks to stand on climate change
The issue of climate change has not only dominated the environment agenda for a decade, but is now seen as a part of the global political agenda also today. That is why the Centre for Science and
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70% coral reef destroyed off Lakshadweep
Record sea temperatures triggered by El Nino and global warming last year sounded death knell to more than 70 per cent of coral off Lakshadweep Islands in southern India, a US State Department study
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Hot year was killer for coral
Record sea temperatures triggered the largest mass die-off of tropical corals in modern times last year, destroying in some areas more than 70 percent of the reef-building creatures whose elaborate
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Shrinkage detected in Greenland's ice
Greenland's ice thinned dramatically at the southern and eastern edges, many parts of which have lost three to six feet in thickness per year since 1993, a new study has found. The rapid pace of the
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NASA researchers document shrinking of Greenland's glaciers
Greenland's southeastern glaciers are rapidly thinning and their lower elevations may be particularly sensitive to potential climate changes, a NASA study suggests. "The results of this study are
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Labour pains
Birla Textile Mill in Himachal Pradesh is yet to pay dues to 2,300 workers. The unit was shifted from Delhi for causing pollution
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After the earth quaked
Hunger leads to looting as survivors of the January 25 earthquake that devastated Colombia pick up whatever is left of their lives
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Seas of despair
Heavy metals are polluting the North Sea. And there is nothing we can do
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Radiation blues
Genetically modified plants can reveal radiation levels
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Let there be light
High efficiency solar panels are here
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Super high yield
Even though farmers all over the world fear that grain yields are plateauing, Yuan Longping, the director of the National Hybrid Rice Research and Development Centre in Hunan Province, China says
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Shades of equity
Negotiators from developing countries lack the strategy to put equity on the global climate change agenda. But the US has already begun to define it for them
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Climate change
dangerous signals : Climate change, global warming's untamed offspring, has been increasingly noticeable in Bhutan, according to NEC (National Environment Commission). A NEC project on greenhouse gas
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Bid to curb global warming
New tests have shown that the injection of iron into the Southern Ocean could reduce the buildup of carbon dioxide gases that lead to global warming, New Zealand scientists said yesterday. The iron
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Goa, Bengal to suffer most from global warming
Goa will be the worst affected among the coastal states in India in the event of a rise in the sea level due to global warming, according to a study by the environment and forests
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Ice of Ages
When is the cooling? : Until recently, scientists who study past glaciations for clues to the future thought that the present warm period was nearing its end. Though global warming from the emission
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UK groups urged to fund environmental secondments
UK companies are to be asked to provide secondments for industrialists from developing countries to help improve their knowledge of environment-friendly working practices. Robin Cook, foreign
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Roman retreat
About 2,000 years ago, when the Romans ruled London, they gave the city its first centrally heated homes. A look back in time
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Lost battle
It is no use trying to save the rainforests, warns a new study
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Trees fight back
After killing trees by the millions, the Dutch elm disease finally meets its match