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| Ganga among 10 dying rivers |
| Neelam Raaj |
| Times of India , Wednesday, March 21, 2007 |
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NEW DELHI: The Ganga, which is virtually synonymous with Indian civilisation, is dying. Pollution, over-extraction of water, emaciated tributaries and climatic changes are killing the mighty river, on ...More
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| World's top 10 rivers at risk: WWF report |
| Staff Reporter |
| The Hindu , Wednesday, March 21, 2007 |
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Due to over-extraction, climate change, pollution and dams
· The Ganga and the Indus are on the list
· Increased water withdrawals threaten Ganga
NEW DELHI: Over-extraction, climate chan ...More
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| `Climatic changes will affect coastal areas' |
| Staff Correspondent |
| The Hindu , Wednesday, March 21, 2007 |
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`The Centre is formulating policies for promotion of renewable energy technologies'
PANAJI: The initial analysis of a study on likely climate changes to take place over the next few years in the cou ...More
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| Don't exaggerate climate dangers, warn scientists |
| Juliette Jowit |
| The Hindu , Monday, March 19, 2007 |
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LEADING CLIMATE change experts have warned of the "Hollywoodisation" of global warning and criticised American scientists for exaggerating the message of global warming.
Paul Hardaker and Chris Coll ...More
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| Duty-free coking coal imports — A blow to environment |
| Lyla Bavadam |
| The Hindu Business Line , Friday, March 09, 2007 |
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The Finance Minister's statement that India will continue not to be a major contributor to greenhouse gases is contradicted by his concession to coal importers.
The hopes of environmentalists were r ...More
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| Call for steps to fight climate change |
| Staff Correspondent |
| The Hindu , Wednesday, March 07, 2007 |
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Seminar discusses threat of global warming
KOCHI: If you think global warming, turned on mainly by energy abuse, is a faraway, mystic phenomenon that should be the bother of rich nations, think agai ...More
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| ‘Attempts to limit greenhouse gas emissions pitiful’ |
| Staff Reporter |
| The Financial Express , Tuesday, March 06, 2007 |
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The atmosphere surrounding the Earth contains small quantities of ozone— a gas that plays a fundamental part in life on Earth. This is because ozone is able to absorb the major part of Sun’s ultraviol ...More
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| `Policy on bio-ethanol missing' |
| Staff Reporter |
| The Hindu Business Line , Friday, March 02, 2007 |
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Mr Pramod Chaudhari, Chairman and Managing Director, Praj Industries
The Finance Minister has merely tinkered with the Budget, but there is nothing revolutionary. While he has taken cognizance of is ...More
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| Climate change on India's radar now |
| Staff Reporter |
| The Hindu Business Line , Thursday, March 01, 2007 |
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Expert panel to identify measures to be taken in future
"India has also strongly promoted the CDM under the Kyoto Protocol and has the world's largest number of CDM projects."
New Delhi Feb. 28 ...More
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| PMO urged to set up panel on climate change |
| Nitin Sethi |
| Times of India , Tuesday, February 20, 2007 |
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NEW DELHI: The PMO has got a proposal from the commerce ministry to set up a high-level taskforce to deal with the emerging climate-change scenario.
The proposal, mooted by Dr R K Pachauri, chairm ...More
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| Suguna Poultry to seek carbon credit for wind energy project |
| Staff Reporter |
| The Hindu Business Line , Saturday, February 17, 2007 |
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Coimbatore Feb. 16 Suguna Poultry group has planned to secure carbon credit for its wind energy project.
The Coimbatore-based company is also planning to include its 2.5-MW biomass-based co-generati ...More
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| Havens for frogs in peril |
| Staff Reporter |
| The Hindu , Friday, February 16, 2007 |
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Scientists seek to save them from killer fungus
ATLANTA: The familiar melody of ribbits, croaks and chirps is disappearing as a mysterious killer fungus wipes out frog populations around the gl ...More
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| 'India to be among hardest hit by global warming' |
| Nitin Sethi |
| Times of India , Friday, February 16, 2007 |
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NEW DELHI: Nicholas Stern, whose eponymous report had recently stirred the world into debating climate change afresh, reiterated that India and other countries in the sub-continent stood to suffer the ...More
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| China to set up Asia’s first carbon-credit exchange |
| Staff Reporter |
| Economic Times , Tuesday, February 13, 2007 |
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BEIJING: China, set to overtake the United States as the world’s largest carbon dioxide emitter, will soon set up Asia’s first carbon-credit exchange in Beijing, allowing the country a head-start in t ...More
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| Underlining ecological degradation |
| Staff Reporter |
| The Hindu , Friday, February 09, 2007 |
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Two-day film festival opens in the Capital today
As the global environmental crisis continues to capture big space in the media, films are emerging as an important tool to highlight ecological degra ...More
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| Climate change and us |
| Lavanya Rajamani |
| THE Indian Express , Thursday, February 08, 2007 |
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Climate change may well be the most significant environmental problem of our time — significant not just for its portentous consequences, which are severe, but for its ability to test humankind’s coll ...More
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| India sends just one to global meet on climate |
| Staff Reporter |
| Deccan Herald , Wednesday, February 07, 2007 |
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The seriousness with which the Government in dealing with climate change issues that are “likely” to adversely affect the nation in the future, was evident by its representation at Inter-governmental ...More
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| After climate panel rap, plan to set up institute |
| Staff Reporter |
| Indian Express , Tuesday, February 06, 2007 |
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NEW DELHI, FEBRUARY 5: In Order to do its bit to contain the problem of global warming, the Science and Technology Ministry has proposed to set up a high-end research institute to look for green techn ...More
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| Let’s budget for climate change |
| Vikram S Mehta |
| Indian Express , Tuesday, February 06, 2007 |
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How can we weaken the link between growth, energy demand and environmental pollution? The finance minister’s budget speech must take on this question
The finance minister will go through the annual ...More
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