User: subbu Topic: Climate Change
Category: Impacts :: Agriculture
Last updated: Jul 31 2010 18:25 IST RSS 2.0
 
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Bamboo cultivation can aid income generation 31.7.2010 Hindu: Cities
Bamboo cultivation can be taken up by farmers of Cauvery delta as a means of additional income generation said S.Suresh Kumar, District Revenue Officer, Thanjavur district here on Saturday. ...
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'Indo-US ties on 'very promising' trajectory' (Cached) 30.7.2010 IE: Latest News
Indo-US relationship has become stronger under Obama Admin, encompassing cooperation in areas like energy, climate change and trade, an American official has said.
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Plankton, base of ocean food web, declining sharply! (Cached) 30.7.2010 Zee News : Science and Technology
Worldwide phytoplankton levels are declining sharply, according to the journal Nature.
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14 Gujarat CM's fellows to help state in good governance (Cached) 30.7.2010 DNA: India
The fellows will be mentored by IAS officers and will submit their monthly reports to their department heads and the Chief Minister's Office.
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Global warming is a great equaliser (Cached) 30.7.2010 DNA: Opinion
Nature's fury that evening did not last more that fifteen minutes or so. It wasn't even a tornado: the winds were between 60-75 miles.
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Lions installation on July 31 29.7.2010 Deccan Herald: District
Lions installation on July 31
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Blame phytoplankton's decline for Global Warming (Cached) 29.7.2010 Rediff: News
Blame phytoplankton for the Global Warming. If a recent study is to be believed, then the microscopic plants that support life in the oceans are dying off at a dramatic rate, leading to an unprecedented change at the base of the marine food web.
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Phytoplankton in decline: bye bye food chain? 29.7.2010 New Scientist: News
Phytoplankton in decline: bye bye food chain?
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Greenpeace exposes Indonesian palm oil firm's 'broken' rainforest pledge 29.7.2010 Guardian: Environment
New evidence shows country's largest palm and pulp group is breaking its environmental commitments by destroying critical habitats Greenpeace said today it had fresh evidence that palm oil firms linked to Indonesian agribusiness giant Sinar Mas have bulldozed rainforest and destroyed endangered orang-utan habitats in Kalimantan. The charges were denied by palm oil firm PT SMART Tbk, part of Sinar Mas, which has already said it would stop clearing critical forests. The accusations, levelled by Greenpeace in a new report , are the latest chapter in a long and bitter dispute between the conservationists and a key player in one of Indonesia's biggest industries, palm oil. The high-stakes battle has already led to top palm oil-buyers ...
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`Declining algae threatens ocean food chain`! (Cached) 29.7.2010 Zee News : Science and Technology
The algae in the oceans has declined over the last century which threatens ocean food chain.
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Condemn branding of eco activists as anti-development forces: Minister 29.7.2010 Hindu: Thiruvananthapuram
Forest Minister Benoy Viswom has called for public condemnation of the trend to brand all environmental activists as anti-development campaigners. Delivering the inaugural address at a semi...
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Climate managers in Panchayat hold key to tackle global warming (Cached) 29.7.2010 New Kerala: World News
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'Natural Partners' (Cached) 28.7.2010 International
The visiting PM was frank about his main focus on economics, but he had done his homework well: his plainspeaking in warning Pakistan on "export of terror" perhaps helping his hosts get over the Miliband-Brown mindset
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Warming threat to marine food chain 28.7.2010 Guardian: Science
Numbers of phytoplankton - the microscopic organisms that sustain the marine food chain - are plummeting as sea surface temperatures rise Phytoplankton might be too small to see with the naked eye, but they are the foundations of the ocean food chain, ultimately capturing the energy that sustains the seas' great beasts such as whales. A new study though has raised the alarm about fundamental changes to life underwater. It warns that populations of these microscopic organisms have plummeted in the last century, and the rate of loss has increased in recent years. The reduction – averaging about 1% per year – is related to increasing sea surface temperatures, says the paper, published tomorrow in the journal Nature . The decline of these ...
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Focus on effects of climate change on rubber productivity 28.7.2010 Hindu: Kerala
Rubber Board Chairman Sajen Peter has stressed the need for the researches in natural rubber sector to factor in the impact of climate change on production and productivity in rubber plantat...
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'Garden of Eden' gave refuge to last men standing during ice age (Cached) 27.7.2010 TOI: All Headlines
'Garden of Eden' gave refuge to last men standing during ice age
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Last few early humans survived in 'Eden' during ice age (Cached) 26.7.2010 New Kerala: India News
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Rising food prices biggest concern for Indians 26.7.2010 NIE: Business
NEW DELHI: Rising food prices is the biggest concern for people in the country, says a survey released Sunday.
The Nielsen Comp..
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Rising food prices biggest concern for Indians: Survey (Cached) 25.7.2010 Hindustan Times: News
Rising food prices is the biggest concern for people in the country, says a survey released today. The Nielsen Company survey found that the concern over increasing food prices has become so big that it has replaced respondents' concern over jobs and the economy.
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Rising food prices biggest concern for Indians: Survey (Cached) 25.7.2010 New Kerala: World News
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