NewsRack: 'Floods n Droughts' news in 'Climate Change' topic for user subbu (21-41 of 6,703)

PM for a mechanism to provide immediate funds to people affected by natural disasters (Cached)	13.5.2013	New Kerala: India News
New Delhi, May 13 : Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh on Monday called for the setting up institutional mechanisms for providing immediate funds to people to help them recover from losses caused by natural disasters.
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India vulnerable to disasters: PM (Cached)	13.5.2013	New Kerala: India News
New Delhi, May 13 : Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday said India is prone to natural and man-made disasters.
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Climate change could leave hundreds of millions homeless (Cached)	13.5.2013	New Kerala: Andhra Pradesh
London, May 12 : It is increasingly likely that hundreds of millions of people will be displaced from their homelands in the near future as a result of global warming, according to an expert.
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Warming to hit half of plants, a third of animals	13.5.2013	Deccan Chronicle: Lifestyle
More than half of common species of plants and a third of animal species are likely to see their living space halved by 2080 on current trends of carbon emissions, a climate study said on Sunday. Output of man-made greenhouse gases is putting Earth on track for four degrees Celsius (7.2 degrees
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Decline fear for plants and animals	12.5.2013	BBC: Front Page
More than half of common plant species and a third of animals could see a serious decline in their habitat range because of climate change, a study suggests.
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Climate change could leave hundreds of millions homeless (Cached)	12.5.2013	Zee News : Science and Technology
It is increasingly likely that hundreds of millions of people will be displaced from their homelands in the near future as a result of global warming, according to an expert.
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Climate change 'will make hundreds of millions homeless'	12.5.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
Carbon dioxide levels indicate rise in temperatures that could lead agriculture to fail on entire continents It is increasingly likely that hundreds of millions of people will be displaced from their homelands in the near future as a result of global warming. That is the stark warning of economist and climate change expert Lord Stern following the news last week that concentrations of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere had reached a level of 400 parts per million (ppm). Massive movements of people are likely to occur over the rest of the century because global temperatures are likely to rise to by up to 5C because carbon dioxide levels have risen unabated for 50 years, said Stern, who is head of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change. "When temperatures rise to that level, we will have disrupted weather patterns and spreading deserts," he said. "Hundreds of millions of people will be forced to leave their homelands because their crops and animals will have died. The trouble will ...
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Climate change: swift political action can avert a carbon dioxide crisis \| Observer editorial	12.5.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
Carbon dioxide levels have reached an all-time high. But there is some hope if governments take the figures seriously The news that concentrations of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere reached a level of 400 parts per million last week might not appear to have immediate significance. The level is only a couple of units higher than last year, after all. Yet the development has undoubted importance. With the realisation that carbon dioxide levels have achieved that symbolic 400ppm figure, it is now clear that two decades of warnings from scientists have fallen on deaf ears and that our leaders have failed completely to curtail rising outputs of greenhouse gases across the world. Indeed, they have allowed them to accelerate. In the 1960s, levels rose at 0.7ppm a year. Today, they rise at 2.1ppm, as more and more nations become industrialised and increase outputs from their factories and power plants. As a result, the most conservative of scientific calculations suggest Earth now faces a 50-50 ...
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An Indian winter	11.5.2013	Hindu: Op-Ed
DEBATE @ THE HINDU The lag between carbon emissions and warming suggests that the earth will get unavoidably warmer, not cooler
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Global carbon dioxide in atmosphere passes milestone level	10.5.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
Climate warming greenhouse gas reaches 400 parts per million for the first time in human history For the first time in human history, the concentration of climate-warming carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has passed the milestone level of 400 parts per million (ppm). The last time so much greenhouse gas was in the air was several million years ago, when the Arctic was ice-free, savannah spread across the Sahara desert and sea level was up to 40 metres higher than today. These conditions are expected to return in time, with devastating consequences for civilisation, unless emissions of CO2 from the burning of coal, gas and oil are rapidly curtailed. But despite increasingly severe warnings from scientists and a major economic recession, global emissions have continued to soar unchecked . "It is symbolic, a point to pause and think about where we have been and where we are going," said Professor Ralph Keeling, who oversees the measurements on a Hawaian volcano, which were begun by his father ...
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Government decides to declare 2013 as 'water conservation year' (Cached)	10.5.2013	New Kerala: India News
New Delhi, May 10 : The Union Cabinet has decided to declare 2013 as 'Water Conservation Year' under which awareness programmes will be launched for conservation of the scarce natural resource.
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Meteorite crater reveals future of a globally warmed world	9.5.2013	Guardian: Environment
Lake sediments recorded the climate of the Arctic during the last period when CO2 levels were as high as today The future of a globally warmed world has been revealed in a remote meteorite crater in Siberia, where lake sediments recorded the strikingly balmy climate of the Arctic during the last period when greenhouse gas levels were as high as today. Unchecked burning of fossil fuels has driven carbon dioxide to levels not seen for 3m years when, the sediments show, temperatures were 8C higher than today, lush forests covered the tundra and sea levels were up to 40m higher than today. "It's like deja vu," said Prof Julie Brigham-Grette, at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, who led the new research analysing a core of sediment to see what temperatures in the region were between 3.6 and 2.2m years ago. "We have seen these warm periods before. Many people now agree this is where we are heading." "It shows a huge warming – unprecedented in human history," said Prof Scott Elias, at ...
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Feathery cirrus clouds have a cold metallic heart	9.5.2013	New Scientist: Health
Feathery cirrus clouds have a cold metallic heart
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Declaration of the Year 2013 as “Water Conservation Year-2013” (Cached)	9.5.2013	Govt of india: PIB
Declaration of the Year 2013 as “Water Conservation Year-2013”
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Insecticide spraying will be expanded to control pest caterpillar	9.5.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
A new £1.5m fund will be spent on a pilot project to increase pesticide spraying to control the oak processionary moth Spraying of insecticide on oak trees will be increased to eradicate a pest moth that causes health problems and can strip the trees bare, under a new £1.5m government fund announced on Thursday. The escalation of efforts to control the oak processionary moth ( Thaumetopoea processionea ) follows the Forestry Commission announcement this week that it will use a helicopter in May to blanket-spray a woodland in West Berkshire, the first time aerial spraying will have been used . The extra funding will be spent on a pilot project to expand spraying in and around areas where the moth's caterpillars have been found around south and south-west London, and on trees where infestations are less obvious. Lord de Mauley, parliamentary under secretary at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), said: "Tree health is a priority for us and this pest not ...
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First part of TERI's survey of Indian cities released in Mumbai	7.5.2013	Hindu: S & T
An environmental survey of 1,010 Mumbaiites by non-profit organisation The Energy and Research Institute (TERI) have found among other things that 62% of total respondents feel that the environmen...
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Pacific islands look for model to combat changes due to global warming	7.5.2013	Guardian: Environment
Islanders must adapt as environmental impact of climate change affects centuries-old ways of life With islands and atolls scattered across the ocean, the small Pacific island states are among those most exposed to the effects of global warming: increasing acidity and rising sea level, more frequent natural disasters and damage to coral reefs. These micro-states, home to about 10 million people, are already paying for the environmental irresponsibility of the great powers. "Pacific islands are the victims of industrial countries unable to control their carbon dioxide emissions. The truth of the matter is that we have no option but to accept this and adapt," says Dr Jimmie Rodgers, the head of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), a regional development organisation. At the initiative of France's Research on Development Institute (IRD) and New Caledonia University , 30 or so scientists from the Pacific basin spent a week at the end of April discussing the design of a sustainable ...
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Safe drinking water disappearing fast in Bangladesh	7.5.2013	Guardian: Environment
Extreme weather increases salinity of water in coastal areas while excessive demand in Dhaka leaves dwindling supply The availability of safe drinking water, particularly in Bangladesh's hard to reach areas, is expected to worsen as the country experiences the effects of climate change, experts say. According to a study by the World Bank's water and sanitation programme (pdf), about 28 million Bangladeshis, or just over 20% of the population, are living in harsh conditions in the "hard-to-reach areas" that make up a quarter of the country's landmass. The study found that char – land that emerges from riverbeds as a result of the deposit of sediments – is among the most inaccessible, along with hilly areas, coastal regions and haors – bowl-shaped wetland areas in north-east Bangladesh. "People living in hard-to-reach areas are often vulnerable to natural calamities like flooding, riverbank erosion and siltation," said Rokeya Ahmed, a water and sanitation specialist at the World Bank. ...
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Safe storage of water? Go underground.	6.5.2013	Deccan Herald - Supplements
Wise usage Experts are stressing the importance of building reservoirs below the ground. This will solve many of the difficulties associated with above-ground water shortage. Proponents say that the technology will only become more relevant with climate change. When cities store water for future use, they often use large lakes created by damming rivers. Now, experts are urging cities to build reservoirs below the ground, where the water cannot evaporate and many of the difficulties associated with above-ground water storage are avoided. "It just makes so much more sense," said Jim Lester, president of the Houston Advanced Research Center, a nonprofit research group. Among other advantages, he said, underground reservoirs are less expensive to build than their above-ground counterparts. Australia and the United States have increasingly embraced underground reservoir technology. Among European countries, Belgium and the Netherlands developed systems of storing water in sand dunes decades ago. The ...
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That sinking feeling	6.5.2013	Deccan Herald - Supplements
That sinking feeling
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