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Bold proposals on climate deal |
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The Hindu , Tuesday, October 28, 2014 |
The bold proposals that form the European Union’s (EU) new climate deal set the tone for the best bargain for a global agreement in Paris next year. The decision to cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions ...More
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Bird songs keep her hooked to nature |
Saswati Mukherjee |
The Times of India , Monday, October 27, 2014 |
BANGALORE: It was a family friend's son who got her interested in studying bird behaviour. "He was studying MSc (zoology) and tracking the nesting behaviour of a bird in our garden," said Samira Agnih ...More
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Climate change may slowdown crop production in 20 yrs |
ANI |
Business Standard , Sunday, October 26, 2014 |
A new study has revealed that climate change could lead to major crop production slowdown in the next 20 years.
The experts from Stanford University and the National Center for Atmospheric Research f ...More
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Strategy needed for Goa as ocean levels rise |
TNN |
The Times of India , Saturday, October 25, 2014 |
The rains over, with tourists back in full force, the impact of the 2014 monsoon can finally be properly assessed on Goa's coastline. There is very little good news: severe erosion is reported from No ...More
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Changes in bird migration, flowering pattern: Experts |
C.S. Kotteswaran |
Deccan Chronicle , Saturday, October 25, 2014 |
Chennai: Ecologists have been observing visible unusual changes in flowering patterns and bird migration across the length and breadth of the Indian sub continent.
Indian researchers are recording th ...More
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Climate change a public health issue: Jairam |
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The Hindu , Saturday, October 25, 2014 |
There is accumulating evidence in India that pollution and contamination are becoming a serious public health issue, which requires focussed strategies to mitigate.
“Environment in India is not a li ...More
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EU leaders struggle for 'difficult' climate deal |
AFP |
Business Standard , Friday, October 24, 2014 |
European Union leaders warned it would be tough to seal a high-stakes climate change deal as they began talks today on a pact aimed at making Brussels a global trailblazer for decades to come.
T ...More
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EU leaders seal landmark 2030 climate deal |
AFP |
The Economic Times , Friday, October 24, 2014 |
BRUSSELS: European Union leaders agreed Friday what they called the world's most ambitious climate change targets for 2030, paving the way for a new UN-backed global treaty next year.
The 28 lea ...More
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US, EU want UN to stress low cost of climate change fight |
Alister Doyle |
Live Mint , Wednesday, October 22, 2014 |
Oslo: The United States and European Union want the UN to stress the low cost of fighting climate change in a draft handbook on the issue that it is compiling, a leaked document showed on Tuesday. The ...More
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Neither small, nor green |
Parineeta Deshpande-Dandekar |
The Hindu , Wednesday, October 22, 2014 |
Why would more than four gram panchayats, environmental activists from three States, the presiding swami of the Subramanya Temple, botanists, fisheries scientists, and institutions like the Indian I ...More
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Let’s talk about the weather |
RK Pachauri |
The Hindustan Times , Wednesday, October 22, 2014 |
Diplomacy in the 21st century promises to take on a very different character and content from what has been practised in the past. Issues like energy security and climate change would have an importan ...More
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Warming Earth Heading for Hottest Year on Record |
Associated Press |
The New Indian Express , Tuesday, October 21, 2014 |
WASHINGTON : Earth is on pace to tie or even break the mark for the hottest year on record, U.S. meteorologists say.
That's because global heat records have kept falling in 2014, with September the l ...More
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