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| Come clean on energy, people tell Airtel chief |
| IANS |
| Times of India , Saturday, May 21, 2011 |
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NEW DELHI: Disappointed over the breakdown of talks between telecom giant Bharti Airtel andGreenpeace over a timeline for disclosing its carbon emission, thousands of people sent emails to the Airte ...More
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| Save rivers to redress water crisis: CM |
| PNS | DEHRADUN |
| The Pioneer , Sunday, May 08, 2011 |
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The mythological river Saraswati had got extinct; and if the other rivers were to be saved, integrated efforts on our part were earnestly needed. By preserving the water-resources we can combat with w ...More
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| CM stresses on planting of indigenous species of trees |
| PNS | Bhubaneswar |
| The Pioneer , Sunday, May 08, 2011 |
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Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Saturday asked the Divisional Forest Officers (DFOs) to dispose of the minor forest cases and avoid harassment to the people, particularly the traibal forest-dwellers. ...More
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| New report confirms Arctic melt accelerating |
| Stockholm, (AP) |
| The Deccan Herald , Wednesday, May 04, 2011 |
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A new assessment of climate change in the Arctic shows the ice in the region is melting faster than previously thought and sharply raises projections of global sea level rise this century.
The r ...More
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| ‘Green India Mission to focus on tree plantation’ |
| PNS | Dehradun |
| The Pioneer , Sunday, May 01, 2011 |
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In a unique method to get rid of deforestation and to increase forest land, Green India Mission will be launched in the country with special focus to plant saplings and herbs in 10 million hectare lan ...More
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| Forests to change irreversibly: Expert |
| Rashme Seghal |
| The Asian Age , Friday, April 29, 2011 |
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Experts meeting under the National Mission for a Green India warn that ten years down the line India’s key forests, including the Himalayas, western ghats and central India could alter irreversibly.
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| Sunderbans absorb CO2 worth $79 billion, says study |
| Press Trust of India |
| Business Line , Wednesday, April 27, 2011 |
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Kolkata, April 26:
The Sunderbans forest is playing a crucial ecological role by acting as a carbon sink and absorbing more than four crore tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, says a rec ...More
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| ‘Minimise effects of climate change' |
| Correspondent |
| The Hindu , Wednesday, April 27, 2011 |
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SIRSI: The governments and the public could minimise the adverse effects of climate change by afforestation programmes, minimising the use of energy fuels, and finding out alternative energy sources, ...More
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| Cache of carbon |
| Janelle Weaver |
| Deccan Herald , Tuesday, April 26, 2011 |
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Ecologists have sampled 25 mangrove sites across a broad territory that includes Micronesia, Indonesia and Bangladesh. This area represents about 40 per cent of the global area covered by mangroves. R ...More
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| Documentary highlights efforts to combat climate change |
| Staff Reporter |
| The Hindu , Tuesday, April 26, 2011 |
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With climate change affecting lives around the world, a documentary feature film about the island nation of Maldives and its efforts to combat climate change will be released later this year.
The Is ...More
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| The diverse field of forestry research |
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| The Hindu , Monday, April 25, 2011 |
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The Forest Research Institute, under the Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education, offers many areas of research related to forestry that are of importance to society.
Forests play a vital r ...More
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| Jairam Ramesh has a point |
| Sanjaya Baru |
| Business Standard , Monday, April 25, 2011 |
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Is it their tiredness with what they may believe is his “fashionable populism” or their irritation with his style that so many senior ministers of the Union government were so ready to be so dismissiv ...More
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| Climate change affecting weather cycle: Omar |
| Tribune News Service |
| The Tribune , Sunday, April 24, 2011 |
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Jammu, April 23
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said today that the visible climate change in the form of cloudbursts, earthquakes, tsunamis, snow-less winters, cooler summers, erratic rains and many ...More
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| Climate change threatening China’s water resources |
| Agencies |
| The Indian Express , Sunday, April 24, 2011 |
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Climate change is having an adverse impact on China’s water resources, said the country’s water resources minister.
Chen Lei’s comments came during a meeting on climate change where he pointed ou ...More
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| Concern over increasing pollution |
| Staff Reporter |
| The Hindu , Friday, April 22, 2011 |
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HYDERABAD: Three major climatic phenomena -- El Nino or La Nina, Indian Ocean Dipole and Atlantic Multi-Decadal Oscillation -- have been determining India's economy every year, Director of the Indian ...More
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