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Koraput to have CSIR centre
BHUBANESWAR: Koraput will soon be connected to the nationwide network of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) laboratories as it is chosen as an extension centre to have a pool of master trainers to train grassroots-level people in applied technologies in various fields.
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- 10/03/2010
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- New Indian Express (Bhubaneswar)
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Govt sets up gene bank to conserve microbial resources
Ahmedabad: Gujarat government has established Gujarat Bio-diversity Gene Bank (GBGB) for conserving microbial resources which are significant to preserve diversified eco-systems.
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- 09/03/2010
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- Times Of India (Ahmedabad)
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Real-time schemes to set the tone for Green Fund
Focus on bringing down power consumption in the State.
All industrial and commercial establishments will have to submit themselves to mandatory energy audit. Fines will be imposed on high tension and extra-high tension consumers who do not attain the standards prescribed by the energy audit.
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Thiruvananthapuram, March 8
- Date:
- 09/03/2010
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- Business Line (New Delhi)
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Interpol for biodiversity thefts now
Biodiveristy theft, especially the illegal trade in wildlife contraband products including tradi- tional medicines, has risen sharply in recent years.
The Indian Wildlife Crime Control Bureau worked closely with Inter- pol and wildlife agencies from across 18 countries in February to check this smuggling.
- Date:
- 06/03/2010
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- Asian Age (New Delhi)
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Cabinet may take up seeds Bill
A week after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh intervened to reconcile differences among ministers of Environment and Forest, Science and Technology, Agriculture, and HRD over the introduction of genetically modified food crops in the country, the government is likely to witness a discussion on the same again as the Cabinet is likely to discuss the seeds Bill on Thursday.
- Date:
- 04/03/2010
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- Indian Express (New Delhi)
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Greens want sparrow chirp back in Mumbai
Mumbai: Where once people welcomed sparrows and other birds on to their window sills, these days modern life has all but killed them off.
Sparrows that used to make nests in people’s lofts and were regularly fed with grain and clean water, struggle to find spaces in Mumbai to nest in today.
- Date:
- 01/03/2010
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- Daily News Analysis (Mumbai)
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Can we trust the IPCC on the big stuff?
Ever since the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 2007 report on the impacts of climate change was discovered to contain a major error - that the Himalayan glaciers will be largely gone by 2035 - there has been a media feeding frenzy to find other mistakes. But it misses the point to focus on individual errors sprinkled through the report's 1000 or so pages.
- Date:
- Feb 2010
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- New Scientist Issue: 2749 pp: 8-10
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Fire-induced invasion of an endemic plant species alters forest structure and diversity: a study from north-east India
Invasive alien species are regarded as principal threats to global biodiversity. In this paper, the authors describe a situation where an endemic plant species, the dwarf bamboo ‘Sinarundinaria rollaona (Gamble) Chao & Renv.’, invades the surrounding forested areas following a fire and becomes the dominant component suppressing other native species.
- Date:
- Feb 2010
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- Current Science Vol: 98 Issue: 4 pp: 483-485
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UK wildlife becoming the ‘living dead’
While the UN is celebrating the international year of biodiversity conservation groups in the UK worry that a rising number of isolated populations are in danger of becoming extinct. Biodiversity is in decline in the UK.
- Date:
- Feb 2010
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- Ecologist
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Ramesh wins first round, brinjal in chiller
PM Unhappy With Public Spat Over Bt
PRIME Minister Manmohan Singh, who normally opts for the path of least resistance, decided to go along with the view that the introduction of Bt brinjal should wait till safety tests are completed and consensus developed on the crop.
- Date:
- 25/02/2010
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- Economic Times (New Delhi)
