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| Climate change may have wiped out mammoths |
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| The Times of India , Thursday, September 12, 2013 |
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A wide-ranging probe into woolly mammoths has added to evidence that the towering tusker was wiped out by climate change, scientists said on Wednesday.
British and Swedish researchers sequenced D ...More
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| Harrison Ford, Indonesia president discuss climate |
| AP |
| Asian Correspondent , Wednesday, September 11, 2013 |
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JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Hollywood actor Harrison Ford interviewed Indonesia’s president on Tuesday about environmental degradation for a TV documentary on climate change.
Ford, known for his st ...More
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| New study points finger at climate in mammoth's demise |
| AFP |
| The Economic Times , Wednesday, September 11, 2013 |
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has added to evidence that the towering tusker was wiped out by climate change, scientists said on Wednesday.
British and Swedish researchers sequenced DNA from 88 samples of mammoth bone, tooth ...More
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| Solar boat reaches Paris after crossing Atlantic |
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| Business Standard , Wednesday, September 11, 2013 |
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The world's largest solar-powered boat has docked on the banks of the Seine River, its final port of call after a three-month voyage across the Atlantic Ocean to study how the Gulf Stream and climate ...More
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| Cabinet nod likely for renewable energy agreement |
| Indrani Bagchi |
| The Times of India , Tuesday, September 10, 2013 |
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NEW DELHI: The Union Cabinet is likely to clear this week a key agreement on renewable energy which is expected to be signed between the ministry of renewable energy and the US department of energy to ...More
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| Climate change will upset vital ocean chemical cycles |
| ANI |
| The Times of India , Tuesday, September 10, 2013 |
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WASHINGTON: A new research has suggested that rising ocean temperatures could hamper natural cycles of carbon dioxide, nitrogen and phosphorous.
Plankton plays an important role in the ocean's car ...More
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| Climate change will upset vital ocean chemical cycles |
| PTI |
| The Times of India , Tuesday, September 10, 2013 |
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LONDON: Rising ocean temperatures will upset natural cycles of carbon dioxide, nitrogen and phosphorous, a new study has warned.
Plankton plays an important role in the ocean's carbon cycle by remo ...More
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| Thrust on use of clean, green technologies |
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| The Assam Tribune , Tuesday, September 10, 2013 |
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GUWAHATI, Sept 9 – With the thrust on using clean and green technologies for energy generation, the 1st North East CleanTech Summit, a flagship event of the Indian Chamber of Commerce, organized in ...More
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| UK to share best energy conservation tips |
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| The New Indian Express , Monday, September 09, 2013 |
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The government of the United Kingdom (UK) has agreed in principle to share the best practices in Energy Efficiency and Energy Conservation (EE&EC) initiatives with the State government to achieve the ...More
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| Activists oppose new panel on hydel projects |
| Gargi Parsai |
| The Hindu , Monday, September 09, 2013 |
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Water activists are up in arms against the reconstituted Expert Appraisal Committee for River Valley and Hydroelectric Projects saying that the panel lacks a multidisciplinary representation and is ...More
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| Obama touts world's economic progress at G20 summit |
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| The Times of India , Saturday, September 07, 2013 |
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ST. PETERSBURG, Russia: Touting economic progress at the Group of 20 summit, US President Barack Obama said the nation's economic powers no longer face the threat of a financial meltdown and can turn ...More
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| G20 leaders vow to tackle tax avoidance |
| ANI |
| News Track India , Saturday, September 07, 2013 |
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St. Petersburg, Sep 6 (ANI): Noting that cross-border tax evasion and avoidance undermine the public finances and people's trust in the fairness of the tax system, the G20 leaders on Friday endorsed p ...More
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| Tripura eyes more German aid for tribals |
| IANS |
| Business Standard , Saturday, September 07, 2013 |
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Germany which has provided Rs.1.4-billion financial aid to Tripura for empowering tribals and remote area residents by utilising natural resources, may provide additional monetary assistance, it was d ...More
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| Consultation on Climate Change held |
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| Assam Times , Saturday, September 07, 2013 |
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Several environmentally ‘unfriendly’ projects in Assam and other Northeast Indian States are being touted as sustainable, receiving funds under the United Nation’s Clean Development Mechanism, w ...More
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| Climate change |
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| The Hindu , Friday, September 06, 2013 |
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Even if one were to accept the claim by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that the “Earth is warming up but not as rapidly as predicted” (Sept. 5), the grim reality is that the da ...More
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| Climate change threatens Caribbean's water supply |
| AP |
| The Times of India , Friday, September 06, 2013 |
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SAN JUAN (PUERTO RICO): Experts are sounding a new alarm about the effects of climate change for parts of the Caribbean - the depletion of already strained drinking water throughout much of the region ...More
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| Predicting vector-borne diseases in climate change era |
| Y. Mallikarjun |
| The Hindu , Thursday, September 05, 2013 |
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How will wind strength impact the migration and affect the flight range of mosquitoes? These and several other parameters are being studied at the micro-environmental level by scientists as part of a ...More
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| This change is here to stay |
| Nitin Sethi |
| The Hindu , Thursday, September 05, 2013 |
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The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in its latest report warns that that a large part of the changes that occur on the planet cannot be reversed even after the next few centuries ...More
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| Earth is warming up but not as rapidly as predicted |
| Nitin Sethi |
| The Hindu , Thursday, September 05, 2013 |
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The climate has not been warming over the past 15 years at rates predicted earlier, the latest report of the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), to be released September end, is ...More
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