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In Sunderbans, politicians and tigers are both dangerous |
Subhro Niyogi |
The Times of India , Tuesday, May 06, 2014 |
GOSABA (Sunderbans): Gosai Mondal flirts with death every year, stepping deep into tiger territory in search of bee hives. In the labyrinth of mangrove trees and marshland spread across the tiger rese ...More
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Tackle climate change before it's too late: UN chief |
IANS |
The Times of India , Tuesday, May 06, 2014 |
ABU DHABI: From the tropics to the poles, from small islands to large continents, and from the poorest countries to the richest, climate change impacts are already widespread, costly and consequential ...More
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Global warming 'not uniform': study |
Press Trust of India |
Business Standard , Tuesday, May 06, 2014 |
The world is indeed getting warmer - but not everywhere and not at the same rate, the first detailed study on global land surface warming trends over the last 100 years has found.
New research by ...More
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Lukewarm response to global warming |
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Deccan Herald , Tuesday, May 06, 2014 |
Although shocking impacts of climate change may well act as an initial hook for people’s attention, they clearly do not motivate a sense of personal action, write Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberge ...More
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Obama dire climate report more certain than ever |
AP |
Business Standard , Tuesday, May 06, 2014 |
The Obama administration is more certain than ever that global warming is changing Americans' daily lives and will worsen conclusions that scientists will detail in a massive federal report.
Once ...More
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The bird itinerary |
K. JESHI |
The Hindu , Tuesday, May 06, 2014 |
Follow the birds to find out what determines the route they take on their annual journey this World Bird Migration Day that falls on May 10 and 11
As birds migrate, they connect all corners and al ...More
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UN chief calls for greater action on climate |
AP |
The Economic Times , Monday, May 05, 2014 |
ABU DHABI: The United Nations secretary-general is calling on world policymakers to show greater effort in addressing the threat of climate change as negotiators attempt to forge a new global warming ...More
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Waiting for climate change |
Syed Miraz Ahmed |
Assam Times , Monday, May 05, 2014 |
The Brahmaputra river basin is considered as highly vulnerable to climate change impacts according to recently published scientific literature. The information and the knowledge base on the dynamics o ...More
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UN chief calls for greater action on climate |
AP |
Business Standard , Monday, May 05, 2014 |
The United Nations secretary-general today urged world policymakers to do more to address the threat of climate change as negotiators attempt to forge a new global warming pact next year.
Speaking ...More
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Global warming 'not uniform' |
ANI |
Business Standard , Monday, May 05, 2014 |
Researchers have found that the world is indeed getting warmer, but historical records show that it hasn't happened everywhere at the same rate.
Zhaohua Wu, an assistant professor of meteorology at F ...More
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Govt commissions studies on greenhouse gas emissions |
Nitin Sethi |
Business Standard , Sunday, May 04, 2014 |
In the run-up to the global climate agreement, the government has commissioned studies to project the future greenhouse gas emissions of the country and the legal architecture of the global agreemen ...More
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Politics and the way of the tiger |
Joanna Van Gruisen |
Business Line , Saturday, May 03, 2014 |
In election season, our political parties seem to be side-stepping reality or are oblivious to the link between GDP and climate change
I grew up and lived in the UK for half my life but have now set ...More
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Honour for India’s green heroes |
TNN |
The Times of India , Saturday, May 03, 2014 |
In May 2009, cyclone Aila hit the Sundarbans, a delta in the Bay of Bengal consisting of 102 islands, sheltered from the sea by mangroves and embankments. In a day, the cyclone washed away 1,300 emban ...More
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Climate change report under fire |
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Deccan Herald , Saturday, May 03, 2014 |
Is the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) losing steam? It is tackling a global problem that remains as urgent as ever. But the expert body’s latest report, released on April 13 and focu ...More
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NCSC Workshop on Climate Change Begins |
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The New Indian Express , Friday, May 02, 2014 |
A four-day national level workshop for the preparation of Activity Guide for National Children’s Congress (NCSC), a government of India programme, began here on Thursday.
The NCSC has a theme of ‘Wea ...More
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