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Tackling global warming |
Staff Reporter |
The Hindu , Saturday, February 04, 2006 |
According to the World Meteorological Organisation, 2005 missed becoming the warmest year on record by the merest fraction of a degree Celsius. The past decade, 1996-2005, is the warmest on record (if ...More
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Global Warming Advancing At An Unsustainable Rate: Blair |
Staff Reporter |
The Statesman , Wednesday, February 01, 2006 |
LONDON, Jan. 30. — The threat posed by climate change may be greater than previously thought, and global warming is advancing at an unsustainable rate, Prime Minister Mr Tony Blair said in a report pu ...More
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Cheap flights cause higher gas emissions |
Martin Hickman |
The Tribune , Monday, January 30, 2006 |
THE boom in foreign travel generated by cheaper air fares and no frills airlines will wreck attempts to bring climate change under control, environmentalists fear.
As the travel industry prepares fo ...More
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Need to gear up to face global warming |
Staff Reporter |
The Hindu , Sunday, January 29, 2006 |
As human activity and natural emissions raise the temperature of the earth's atmosphere, more energy is created. . This heat, expressed as climate change, increase the frequency of extreme events such ...More
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TNPL becomes eligible to trade carbon credits |
Staff Reporter |
The Hindu Business Line , Saturday, January 21, 2006 |
Chennai , Jan. 20
TAMIL Nadu Newsprint and Papers Ltd (TNPL) has become eligible to trade carbon credits.
It has got its bio-methanation plant registered with the United Nations Framework Conventi ...More
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Energy-efficient vehicles "will reduce pollution" |
Staff Reporter |
The Hindu , Saturday, January 21, 2006 |
Students have to be hard working: Vice-Chancellor
CHENNAI: Pollution does not recognise international boundaries, and the solution to reduce pollution and save the earth is through constructi ...More
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New horizon in environment |
SS Chitwadgi |
Central Chronicle , Monday, January 16, 2006 |
Those were the days when environment was hardly a subject much discussed in the sphere of Govt business. It became a major subject onbly when Indian took to developmental activities beginning with fir ...More
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Curb pollution: businesses told |
Santosh Patnaik |
The Hindu , Thursday, January 12, 2006 |
India participates in Sydney meet
SYDNEY: Big businesses have been urged to switch on to clean technologies so as to cut greenhouse gas emissions during a meeting here of six Asia-Pacific countries ...More
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India in six-nation clean energy initiative |
Staff Reporter |
The Hindu Business Line , Wednesday, January 11, 2006 |
New Delhi , Jan 10
A NEW partnership of six major Asia-Pacific nations aiming to deploy and commercialise cleaner energy technologies will be launched on January 11-12 at the Asia-Pacific Partnershi ...More
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Climate change may melt permafrost |
Staff Reporter |
Hindustan Times , Wednesday, December 28, 2005 |
What is permafrost?
• It is the earth that
remains frozen all round the year
• The permafrost lies under much of Alaska, Canada and Siberia
• It can be more than 1,000 feet deep on the Arctic slop ...More
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Improved climate for Kyoto agenda |
P. Manoj |
The Hindu , Friday, December 16, 2005 |
The 11th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) in Montreal has certainly brought about an improvement in the "atmospherics" relating to the interna ...More
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Mission to save planet is `failing' |
Heather Stewart |
The Hindu , Monday, December 05, 2005 |
Sports stars join campaign for trade justice as report says governments are not doing enough to protect environment.
THE WORLD scored an abysmal two out of 10 for its efforts in trying to save the p ...More
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Travelling film fest to focus on green issues |
Staff Reporter |
The Pioneer , Thursday, December 01, 2005 |
Travelling Film Festival-2005, focusing on various issues on environment, was organised by the Centre for Science and Environment in association with Manav Adhikar Seva Samiti on Wednesday at the city ...More
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Deepak Spinners, Alwar Power get UN's CDM registration |
Staff Reporter |
The Hindu Business line , Saturday, November 05, 2005 |
New Delhi , Nov. 4
WITH projects of Deepak Spinners Ltd (DSL) and Alwar Power Company Ltd (APCL) getting registered as clean development mechanism (CDM) activities, seven Indian projects have made i ...More
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Living Buddha’s green dreams in Shangri-La |
Thomas L. Friedman |
Deccan Chronicle , Saturday, October 29, 2005 |
I came to Shangri-La and I met the Buddha. Well, not the Buddha, but one of the “living Buddhas” designated by the Buddhist hierarchy as spiritual leaders throughout this Tibetan region of China, and ...More
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