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| Building green sense |
| Sunita Narain |
| Business Standard , Monday, September 22, 2014 |
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There is no question that India and other parts of the still-under-construction world must build green. The building sector is a major contributor to climate change and local environmental destruction ...More
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| Thousands join climate change march in New York |
| IANS |
| Business Standard , Monday, September 22, 2014 |
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New York, Sep 22 (IANS/EFE) New York City Sunday was the scene of a huge and colourful demonstration against climate change with more than 300,000 people turning out as part of an international init ...More
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| India’s Arctic observatory to aid climate change studies |
| Will help understand influences on monsoon system |
| The Hindu , Monday, September 22, 2014 |
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Deep in the frigid waters of the Arctic Ocean, an Indian observatory is quietly churning out data that is expected to help scientists understand the Arctic climate process and its influence on the Ind ...More
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| Climate cloud over Sunderbans tigers |
| Subhro Niyogi & Krishnendu Mukherjee |
| The Times of India , Monday, September 22, 2014 |
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KOLKATA: Sunderbans' tigers that lord over the archipelago and are counted among the most ferocious predators on the planet could end up with a rather sad refugee tag. Climate change scientists believ ...More
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| Global marches draw attention to climate change |
| AP |
| The Hindu , Monday, September 22, 2014 |
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Tens of thousands of activists walked through Manhattan on Sunday, warning that climate change is destroying the Earth in stride with demonstrators around the world who urged policymakers to take quic ...More
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| At UN, Obama to urge nations to go big on climate |
| AP |
| The Times of India , Friday, September 19, 2014 |
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WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama will turn his sights overseas next week, urging fellow heads of state to be as ambitious as possible as they negotiate a make-or-break global treaty to be finalized ...More
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| US based EcoSikh asks Sikhs to fight climate change |
| IANS |
| Business Standard , Friday, September 19, 2014 |
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Ahead of the Sep 23 UN Climate Summit in New York, Washington-based environmental organisation, EcoSikh has asked Sikhs to strengthen their connection to the Sikh faith through environmentalism and ex ...More
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| Times for action on climate change says Sunita Narain |
| Manjiri Damle |
| The Times of India , Thursday, September 18, 2014 |
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PUNE: World is running out of space and time and it is high time to raise ambition and take actual action to reduce carbon emission said Sunita Narain, the director general of the Centre for Science a ...More
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| Really Wanted Modi to Attend UN Climate Change Summit: Ban |
| PTI |
| The New Indian Express , Thursday, September 18, 2014 |
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UNITED NATIONS:UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said he "really wanted" Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to participate in his crucial day-long climate change summit here next week, which will be a ...More
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| Himalayan glaciers losing ice by thinning |
| Shubashree Desikan |
| The Hindu , Thursday, September 18, 2014 |
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The response of the Himalayan glaciers to climate change is very puzzling in many ways. Despite being subjected to similar climate changes, some of these glaciers appear to be stagnant as their fronts ...More
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| New Authority on NTCA Lines Sought for Jumbo Protection |
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| The New Indian Express , Thursday, September 18, 2014 |
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BHUBANESWAR: The Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEFCC) should constitute a new statutory authority for protection of elephants on the lines of National Tiger Conservation Author ...More
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| Ocean microbes a global source of key vitamin B12 |
| IANS |
| Business Standard , Wednesday, September 17, 2014 |
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A group of micro-organisms may be responsible for much of the world's vitamin B12 production in the oceans, with implications for the global carbon cycle and climate change, says a study.
This group ...More
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| 'Diverting carbon fund to Ganga clean-up illegal' |
| Subhro Niyogi |
| The Times of India , Wednesday, September 17, 2014 |
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KOLKATA: Joyashree Roy, a key member of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has flayed the NarendraModi government's attempt to divert funds meant for ...More
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| Fixing climate change might add no costs, says report |
| Justin Gillis |
| Business Standard , Wednesday, September 17, 2014 |
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In decades of public debate about global warming, one assumption has been accepted by virtually all factions - that tackling it would necessarily be costly. But a new report casts doubt on that idea, ...More
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