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| UK sees warmest year since 1659 as climate changes |
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| Financial Express , Friday, December 15, 2006 |
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DEC 14: The UK is experiencing its warmest year in more than three centuries and will likely break a record at the world’s oldest registry of temperatures.
The mean temperature for 2006 will be 10. ...More
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| Threat to alpine region from global warming |
| Angelique Chrisafis |
| The Hindu , Friday, December 15, 2006 |
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According to an OECD report, recent warming in Europe's alpine region was roughly three times the global average.
GLOBAL WARMING could devastate European ski resorts within decades, forcing lower-al ...More
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| Go beyond rain forecast: Kalam |
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| Deccan Herald , Tuesday, December 12, 2006 |
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DH News Service Gadanki:
Stressing the need for sustainable development, President Kalam called for integrated atmospheric research while asking the participants to explore ways in which internation ...More
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| Make earth a safe habitat, Kalam asks scientists |
| Staff Reporter |
| The Hindu , Tuesday, December 12, 2006 |
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TIRUPATI: President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam on Monday set an agenda for scientists, especially in the context of what he called two alarming developments — doubling of the carbon dioxide content in the atm ...More
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| Antarctica a living lab for global warming |
| Staff Reporter |
| Hindustan Times , Tuesday, December 12, 2006 |
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Reuters
McMurdo Station, Antartic
For scientists at this ice-encircled outpost, global warming is not a matter of debate. It is a simple fact and crucial research questions centre on what its conseq ...More
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| Climate variation: PM gets a ‘stern’ warning |
| Kalyan Ray |
| Deccan Herald , Friday, December 08, 2006 |
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Spend now, on adapting to the consequences of climate change, or else you will have to pay out much more in the future — that was the message Sir Nicholas Stern gave Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on W ...More
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| Policies needed to mitigate effects of climate change |
| Staff Reporter |
| The Financial Express , Thursday, December 07, 2006 |
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Carbon neutrality must also be seen as an image-building exercise
Features Bureau
New Delhi, Dec 6: It is time when the ongoing debate on climate change must conclude and we take into considera ...More
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| Pollution’s why the rice bowl isn’t full |
| Kalyan Ray |
| Deccan Herald , Wednesday, December 06, 2006 |
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In what could be seen as an explanation to the decrease in rice productivity in recent years, scientists have shown that air pollution has reduced rice harvest by 20-25 per cent in India in the 1990s. ...More
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| Climate change raises concerns |
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| The Asian Age , Tuesday, December 05, 2006 |
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New Delhi, Dec. 4: Climate predictions based on varied scenarios of global trends on climate change and its impact has led climate experts and policy makers to come up with the solution of integrating ...More
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| Meeting on global warming |
| Staff Reporter |
| The Tribune , Tuesday, December 05, 2006 |
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New Delhi, December 4
Amid growing fears about global warning, a two-day international conference on climate change and its adverse consequences on development of countries like India will begin here ...More
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| Non-conventional renewable energy sources |
| Jibitesh Narayan Goswami |
| Assam Tribune , Friday, December 01, 2006 |
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In this modern age electricity is one of the basic inputs for achieving socio-economic development of a nation. Even now we are very much dependent on the conventional sources, like fossil fuels (coal ...More
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| Should we care about global warming? |
| Kalpana Sharma |
| The Hindu , Tuesday, November 28, 2006 |
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The argument against putting pressure on India and China is that they were not responsible for the problem, so they should not be forced to slow down. While 15 years ago this argument had some validit ...More
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| Scientists warn against indiscriminate fertilizer use |
| Staff Reporter |
| The Tribune , Tuesday, November 28, 2006 |
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Tribune News Service
Ludhiana, November 27
“The days are over when scientists could function in isolation with narrow focus on research. It is high time they cut across super-specialised discipline ...More
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| UN climate change talks make little headway |
| Staff Reporter |
| Financial Express , Saturday, November 18, 2006 |
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Nairobi, Nov 17: Global talks to widen a fight against climate change reached gridlock on their final day on Friday after scant progress overnight to encourage rich nations to help Africa. The two we ...More
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| Green rules being flouted |
| Nicholas Watt |
| The Hindu , Saturday, November 18, 2006 |
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Brussels: The E.U.'s new members from eastern and central Europe are flouting guidelines by spending a ``paltry'' amount of their funds from Brussels on climate-friendly schemes, according to a report ...More
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| Environment Department gets more subjects |
| Staff Reporter |
| The Hindu , Friday, November 17, 2006 |
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Bifurcation notification issued
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Government has issued a notification bifurcating the Science, Technology and Environment Department and bringing some subjects handled by the ...More
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| Control global warming: Annan |
| Staff Reporter |
| The Hindu , Thursday, November 16, 2006 |
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Says it will not cost much to cut greenhouse gas emissions
NAIROBI: Secretary-General Kofi Annan told the U.N. conference on climate change on Wednesday that it's clear it would cost far less to c ...More
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