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MMLC promotes solar energy - newindianexpress.com

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:30:00 GMT

Monsoon fury tests India's preparedness - newindianexpress.com

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:30:00 GMT

BHU scientists to study the impact of climate change in Ganga basin - Varanasi - City - The Times of India

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:30:00 GMT

Scientists from Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development (IESD), Banaras Hindu University (BHU) and others are going to be first to carry out an extensive study on the impact of climate change on Ganga basin.

India at high flood risk Study - Hindustan Times: India

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:30:00 GMT

India at high flood risk Study

UN urges global action to increase response to drought - New Kerala: World News

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:30:00 GMT

New York, June 18 : Countries must work collectively to build resilience and prepare themselves against drought, United Nations officials stressed Monday, highlighting the extensive costs of this global threat.

Rains over past three days extreme weather event: scientists - Down to Earth

admin — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:30:00 GMT

Unpredictability associated with monsoons will only increase as global temperatures rise

Courtesy EU Humanitarian AID and Civil Protection

WILL: Global warming in retreat - Rocky Mountain News: Opinion columns

Sat, 14 Feb 2009 18:30:00 GMT

Energy Secretary Steven Chu recently told the Los Angeles Times that global warming might melt 90 percent of California’s snowpack, which stores much of the water needed for agriculture. This, Chu said, would mean “no more agriculture in California,” the nation’s leading food producer. Chu added: “I don’t actually see how they can keep their cities going.” No more lettuce for Los Angeles?

Could the world's biggest marine sanctuary be declared in the Antarctic? | Graham Readfearn - The Guardian -- World Latest

Graham Readfearn — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 18:30:00 GMT

Proposals will go before a commission next month to help protect thousands of species in Antarctic waters An extraordinarily big thing might happen in the world of marine conservation next month at a meeting in Germany of a little known international commission. And while you probably haven't read much about it, the outcome could see the creation of the two largest areas of protected ocean on the planet that would lock out fishing from more than 1.5 million square kilometres of ocean around the Antarctic. The areas in question – the Ross Sea and coastal areas in East Antarctica – are almost untouched by the often-clumsy hands of human progress and give a home to thousands of marine species. Across the two areas are about a million pairs of Adélie penguins, more than a dozen species of whale, more than a third of the world's population of emperor penguins, abundant krill and fish species and the Ross Sea region's top predator – the toothfish, which can grow to two metres weighing 200 ...

Global warming sees Bangladesh river destroying villages - newindianexpress.com

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 18:30:00 GMT

Global warming sees Bangladesh river destroying villages - New Kerala: World News

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 18:30:00 GMT

By Sahana Ghosh, Dhaka, June 16 : It is time for Mohammed Qader of Bahuka village in Sirajganj district to move again. For the seventh time in the last 20 years that he has been residing in Bahuka, Qader will be forced to rebuild his life from scratch as the mighty Jamuna river continues to erode its banks and destroy everything in its wake - all thanks to global warming.

It''s that sinking feeling - Indian Express: Sunday

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 18:30:00 GMT

A large part of Germany, the Czech Republic and several European countries such as Austria, Hungary and Switzerland are flooded after heavy rains

Be warned! It's climate weirding - Hindu: Home

Professor Vasant Natarajan — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 18:30:00 GMT

There is no second Earth to go when we make our planet uninhabitable

Al Gore says Obama must veto 'atrocity' of Keystone XL tar sands pipeline - The Guardian -- World Latest

Suzanne Goldenberg — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 18:30:00 GMT

Former vice-president says oil pipeline is 'really a losing proposition' and demands climate plan promised at inauguration Al Gore has called on Barack Obama to veto the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, describing it as "an atrocity". The former vice-president said in an interview on Friday that he hoped Obama would follow the example of British Columbia, which last week rejected a similar pipeline project, and shut down the Keystone XL. "I certainly hope that he will veto that now that the Canadians have publicly concluded that it is not safe to take a pipeline across British Columbia to ports on the Pacific," he told the Guardian. "I really can't imagine that our country would say: 'Oh well. Take it right over parts of the Ogallala aquifer', our largest and most important source of ground water in the US. It's really a losing proposition." Campaigners have cast Keystone XL as the most important decision of Obama' presidency. The State Department, which has say over the project because ...

You’ve got an SMS - Down to Earth

admin — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 18:30:00 GMT

Mobile>> Weather Forecast • Thailand

Farmers say the alerts help them manage water better (Photo: Marwaan Macan-Markar/IPS)Cell phones have become indispensable for jasmine rice farmers in Yasothon province of Thailand. This is because of a service that provides regular, precise weather alerts to help farmers prepare fields and manage water.

Al Gore: NSA's secret surveillance program 'not really the American way' - Guardian: Science

Suzanne Goldenberg — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 18:30:00 GMT

Former vice-president – not persuaded by argument that program was legal – urges Congress and Obama to amend the laws The National Security Agency's blanket collection of US citizens' phone records was "not really the American way", Al Gore said on Friday, declaring that he believed the practice to be unlawful. In his most expansive comments to date on the NSA revelations , the former vice-president was unsparing in his criticism of the surveillance apparatus, telling the Guardian security considerations should never overwhelm the basic rights of American citizens. He also urged Barack Obama and Congress to review and amend the laws under which the NSA operated. "I quite understand the viewpoint that many have expressed that they are fine with it and they just want to be safe but that is not really the American way," Gore said in a telephone interview. "Benjamin Franklin famously wrote that those who would give up essential liberty to try to gain some temporary safety deserve neither ...

Warm ocean water melting Antarctic ice from below - New Kerala: World News

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 18:30:00 GMT

Washington, June 14 : A new study has found that ocean waters melting the undersides of Antarctic ice shelves are responsible for most of the continent's ice shelf mass loss.

Pakistan can expect worse heatwaves to come, meteorologists warn - The Guardian -- World Latest

John Vidal — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 18:30:00 GMT

Recent extreme temperatures that are commonly followed by floods can largely be attributed to climatic warming Near-record temperatures in Pakistan have claimed hundreds of lives and devastated crops in the third major heatwave in four years. But as temperatures on Friday dipped to under 38C (100F), signalling the end of nearly four weeks of blistering heat, leading meteorologists warned that the country could expect longer, more intense and more frequent events in future. Qamar-uz-Zaman Chaudhry , a vice-president of the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) and former director of Pakistan's Met Office, said the recent extreme summer temperatures that are commonly followed by massive floods could largely be attributed to climatic warming. "If we look at the frequency and the trend of the extreme weather events impacting Pakistan then it is easy to find its link with climate change," he said. Chaudhry, who wrote Pakistan's climate change policy, authored a report in 2013 that showed ...

Warm ocean melting Antarctic ice shelves - New Kerala: World News

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 18:30:00 GMT

Pasadena, Calif., June 14 : Ocean waters melting the undersides of Antarctic ice shelves are responsible for most of the continent's ice shelf mass loss, a new study by NASA and university researchers has found.

Several water bodies restored in Varanasi through collective efforts - TOI: All Headlines

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 18:30:00 GMT

Several water bodies restored in Varanasi through collective efforts

NSW Greens call for fluoride inquiry - The Guardian -- World Latest

Oliver Milman — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 18:30:00 GMT

Party says people remain concerned about the chemical after court rejected campaign to stop it being added to drinking water The New South Wales Greens will press the state government to hold a public inquiry into the safety of fluoridated water, after the NSW Court of Appeal ruled against an anti-fluoride campaigner's bid to prevent the chemical being added to drinking water. The court decided unanimously that Ballina Shire Council, via Rous Water, should be allowed to add fluoride to water in five processing plants across the Northern Rivers region of NSW. Al Oshlack, who initiated legal action in 2012 to prevent fluoridation of the water, was ordered to pay the legal costs of the council and Rous Water, estimated to be around $500,000. The NSW Department of Health had directed that fluoride be added to water supplies in the Lismore, Ballina and Richmond Valley shires. Oshlack appealed an earlier decision by the NSW Land and Environment Court to allow the fluoridation. However, ...

Get ready for the ‘fire ice’ revolution - Deccan Chronicle: Op Ed

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 18:30:00 GMT

On Saturday, June 8, the research vessel Kaiyo Maru No. 7 left the port of Joetsu, in western Japan, to begin a three-year survey of the Sea of Japan — the latest step in a little-known research programme that in a decade or less could profoundly change the international balance of power. Kaiyo

Mongolia shows the birthing pains of a green economy - New Scientist: Focus on America

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 18:30:00 GMT

Mongolia shows the birthing pains of a green economy

More than half of Sundarbans women suffer from anaemia: Report - DNA: India

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 18:30:00 GMT

Anaemia is the scarcity in the number of red blood cells or the amount of hemoglobin in the blood.

Warm ocean water melting Antarctic ice from below - Zee News : Science and Technology

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 18:30:00 GMT

A new study has found that ocean waters melting the undersides of Antarctic ice shelves are responsible for most of the continent`s ice shelf mass loss.

Keep our coal in the ground | Simon Copland - Guardian: Comment is Free

Simon Copland — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 18:30:00 GMT

Simon Copland: If coal extraction developments are to go ahead in Queensland, we are dooming ourselves to a world no one wants to see Simon ...