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Ramesh-backed paper questions another IPCC claim |
Chetan Chauhan |
The Hindustan Times , Thursday, January 20, 2011 |
India has once again challenged the UN's climate science body - the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) --- through a new scientific paper.
The Environment ministry sponsored paper says ...More
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'Climate change, energy security two greatest challenges' |
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The Deccan Herald , Thursday, January 20, 2011 |
Noting that climate change and energy security are the two greatest challenges of the present time, US and China have vowed to work together to address the two issues affecting the mankind.
"The ...More
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Brahmaputra discharge at risk: experts |
Ajit Patowary |
The Assam Tribune , Wednesday, January 19, 2011 |
GUWAHATI, Jan 18 – The climate change-induced glacial melt in the Tibetan part of the Brahmaputra is unlikely to affect exceptionally the monsoon discharge of the river at Guwahati. However, there ...More
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A Wild Angle |
Sushmita Biswas |
The Telegraph , Sunday, January 16, 2011 |
It was a meaty story of a different kind for filmmakers Rita Banerji and Shilpi Sharma. For seven years the duo criss-crossed Northeast India filming animals and talking to villagers about hunting pra ...More
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Needed: Green custodian as a constitutional office |
Shyam Divan |
Times of India , Saturday, January 15, 2011 |
Whatever your views on Jairam Ramesh, there is no denying that the environment minister has given his job an elevated profile and a knuckle-duster punch that was lacking in times past. Is our existi ...More
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Needed: Green custodian as a constitutional office |
Shyam Divan |
Times of India , Friday, January 14, 2011 |
Whatever your views on Jairam Ramesh, there is no denying that the environment minister has given his job an elevated profile and a knuckle-duster punch that was lacking in times past. Is our existi ...More
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Scientists see climate change link to Australian floods |
REUTERS |
Times of India , Thursday, January 13, 2011 |
SINGAPORE: Climate change has likely intensified the monsoon rains that have triggered record floods in Australia's Queensland state, scientists said on Wednesday, with several months of heavy rain ...More
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Climate change, the ‘other' view |
G Chandrashekhar |
Business Line , Wednesday, January 12, 2011 |
Despite the world having been taken in by the Nobel award winning, UN-sponsored, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the last word on global warming and climate change as well as its e ...More
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Scientists see climate change link to Australian floods |
REUTERS |
Times of India , Wednesday, January 12, 2011 |
SINGAPORE: Climate change has likely intensified the monsoon rains that have triggered record floods in Australia's Queensland state, scientists said on Wednesday, with several months of heavy rain ...More
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‘Tragedy of the commons’ avoidable |
V. Sridhar |
The Hindu , Wednesday, January 12, 2011 |
Climate change a problem in most parts of developing world: El Salvador Minister
Saving, preserving, sharing and nurturing common property resources is by no means a lost cause, according to preside ...More
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‘Be ready to make trade-offs between growth, ecology' |
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The Hindu , Tuesday, January 11, 2011 |
HYDERABAD: Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh on Monday said the Indian political system must be ready to make “tough choices and trade-offs” between the objective of at ...More
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Avian guests arrive at Harike wetland-cum-sanctuary |
PNS | Chandigarh |
The Pioneer , Monday, January 10, 2011 |
It is time and the winged visitors from distant lands have arrived at India's second largest bird sanctuary-Harike wetland-cum-sanctuary. Considered as the bird watchers paradise, Harike wetland i ...More
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Bird conservation workshop held in Angul |
PNS | TALCHER |
The Pioneer , Monday, January 10, 2011 |
On the occasion of National Bird Day, a bird photography exhibition and workshop on Conservation of Important Bird Area (IBA) of Satkosia-Panchadhara were organised at Athamallik by an Angul-based ...More
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Desalination plant project report being readied |
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The Hindu , Friday, January 07, 2011 |
A Detailed Project Report is being worked out for a 200 million litres a day (mld) desalination plant to cater to the needs of the “expanded Chennai” , Ashok Vardhan Shetty, Principal Secretary, Munic ...More
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Al Gore urges China, US to build greener cities |
AFP |
Times of India , Friday, January 07, 2011 |
BEIJING: Former US vice president Al Gore said Thursday China and the United States -- the world's biggest polluters -- should work on designing greener cities as part of their efforts to tackle clima ...More
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Mass bird deaths rare, not apocalyptic:Experts |
REUTERS |
Times of India , Friday, January 07, 2011 |
OSLO: Birds falling out of the sky in the United States and Sweden are freak examples of the kind of mass animal deaths, from beached whales to deluges of frogs, that have unusual but not apocalyptic ...More
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