Need joint efforts to save Himalayas: Eco-activists
September 9th, 2012 - 7:03 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Sep 9 (IANS) Concerned over the threat to natural resources in the Himalayas, environmentalist here Sunday said there was an urgent need to preserve its ecology and the ... Read more...
Posted in Environment |
Asia-Pacific must respond to climate change to survive: UNDP
May 10th, 2012 - 7:14 pm ICT by IANS
Jakarta, May 10 (IANS) The Asia-Pacific region must continue to grow economically to lift millions of people out of poverty, but it must also respond to climate change to survive, ... Read more...
Posted in World |
Montek to push for declaring tea as India’s national drink
April 21st, 2012 - 9:12 pm ICT by IANS
Guwahati, April 21 (IANS) Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia Saturday assured the tea planters in Assam that he will take up the issue of declaring tea ... Read more...
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Sunderbans poster boy of climate change’s ill effects: Study
March 1st, 2012 - 12:52 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, March 1 (IANS) The Sunderbans, a world heritage site, is becoming increasingly vulnerable to climate change and government policies must take into account present and future climate impact to ... Read more...
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Climate change to affect small farmers: ActionAid
February 28th, 2012 - 6:09 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Feb 28 (IANS) More than 80 percent small farmers, contributing to half of India's crop production, will be affected by climate change, which is impacting faster than predicted ... Read more...
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Ancient rice gene could protect crop from global warming
January 5th, 2012 - 4:29 pm ICT by IANS
Sydney, Jan 5 (IANS) An ancient rice gene can save food crops from the devastating effects of global warming, reveals a study.The genetic diversity found by scientists is seen as ... Read more...
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US to help set up 30 business hubs in eastern India
December 20th, 2011 - 9:17 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Dec 20 (IANS) The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), in partnership with the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), will set up 30 rural business hubs in ... Read more...
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Commonwealth can grapple with global financial crises, says Britain
October 28th, 2011 - 5:53 pm ICT by IANS
Perth, Oct 28 (IANS) The Commonwealth, which spans 54 countries with a trade network worth $3 billion, can tackle global challenges ranging from the financial crises to a changing climate, ... Read more...
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Mosquitoes disappear in some parts of Africa
August 31st, 2011 - 10:55 am ICT by IANS
London, Aug 31 (IANS) Scientists have been left baffled with reports that malaria-carrying mosquitoes are disappearing in some parts of Africa, BBC reported.Figures in the Malaria Journal say control methods ... Read more...
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Shimla losing its monsoon magic?
August 19th, 2011 - 1:37 pm ICT by IANS
Shimla, Aug 19 (IANS) Drenched in the memories of years gone by, R.L. Thakur, 80, ponderously looks at the evening sky and then at the busy Mall Road. The ... Read more...
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Cities in developing countries ‘likelier to be hit by climate change’
April 8th, 2011 - 7:12 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, April 8 (ANI): A new study has warned that fast-growing urban areas worldwide, especially in developing countries, will suffer disproportionately from the impacts of changing climate.An examination of urban policies ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Ants, termites can boost wheat yields
March 31st, 2011 - 12:06 pm ICT by IANS
Sydney, March 31 (IANS) Allowing ants and termites to flourish on farmlands can boost wheat yields by more than a third, a finding that has a direct bearing on food ... Read more...
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New project to predict behaviour of ice sheets under changing climate
March 7th, 2011 - 4:22 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Mar 7 (ANI): A new project is underway to help predict the behaviour of ice sheets under a changing climate.Called the Scalable, Efficient, and Accurate Community Ice Sheet Model, or SEACISM, ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Climate change can have detrimental effect on milk
January 17th, 2011 - 12:43 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Jan 17 (ANI): A new research has suggested that wetter, cooler summers can have a detrimental effect on the milk we drink.Researchers found milk collected during a particularly poor UK summer ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Study finds how sea urchins affect coral reefs’ growth
January 15th, 2011 - 4:39 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Jan 15 (ANI): An 18-year-old study has found that overfished reef systems have more sea urchins-organisms that in turn eat coral algae that build tropical reef systems.According to the study of ... Read more...
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Ice-age reptile extinctions shed light on responses to climate change
December 10th, 2010 - 5:58 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Dec 10 (ANI): Researchers at the University of Michigan have found that a wave of reptile extinctions on the Greek islands over the past 15,000 years may shed light on how ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Expert issues stark warning on climate change
December 9th, 2010 - 5:23 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Dec 09 (ANI): A climate change expert has warned that if humans don't moderate their use of fossil fuels, there is a real possibility that we will face the environmental, societal ... Read more...
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Clouds could make global warming worse
November 30th, 2010 - 4:27 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Nov 30 (ANI): A team of University of Hawaii-Manoa researchers from the U.S. and Japan have solved one of the most deceptively difficult problems in climate science: What happens to clouds ... Read more...
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Great whites ended up in Mediterranean after ‘wrong turn’ 450,000yrs ago
November 17th, 2010 - 5:33 pm ICT by ANI
London, Nov 17 (ANI): A genetic study has suggested that the great white shark may have ended in the Mediterranean after it took a wrong turn 450,000 years ago, from the seas ... Read more...
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Mountains may offer species ‘refuge habitats’ during climate change
November 10th, 2010 - 4:25 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Nov 10 (ANI): Swiss researchers have claimed that mountain ranges may represent a 'safer' place to live during changing climate conditions.Daniel Scherrer and Christian Korner from the University of Basel, Switzerland ... Read more...
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Large-scale crop failures to increase under climate change, finds study
October 8th, 2010 - 4:59 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Oct 08 (ANI): A new study has shown that large-scale crop failures like the one that caused the recent Russian wheat crisis are likely to become more common under climate change ... Read more...
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World Bank cites Andhra water project for food security
August 31st, 2010 - 11:32 pm ICT by IANS
By Arun Kumar
Washington, Aug 31 (IANS) With the global population expected to reach nine billion by 2050, the World Bank has cited India's Improved Rural Community Water Project in Andhra Pradesh as ... Read more...
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Pitcher-plant-dwelling mosquito shows effects of Earth’s changing climate
August 25th, 2010 - 5:53 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Aug 25 (ANI): Scientists at the University of Oregon have determined the genetic structure of the pitcher-plant-dwelling mosquito, the first animal to show an evolutionary response to rapid climate change.They ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Climate change, not hunting, killed woolly mammoths: Study
August 18th, 2010 - 1:32 pm ICT by ANI
London, Aug 18 (ANI): A new study has revealed that the woolly mammoths died out because of dwindling grasslands - rather than being hunted to extinction by humans.There was a severe decline ... Read more...
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Greenland ice cap melt accelerating: Experts
August 1st, 2010 - 1:47 pm ICT by ANI
London, Aug.1 (ANI): A British research team studying the Greenland ice sheet has discovered evidence of a rapidly accelerating rate of melt.Sky News quoted Dr. Alun Hubbard, who is leading a team ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Changing climate damages apple crop in Uttarakhand
July 13th, 2010 - 9:28 pm ICT by ANI
Dhana Chuli (Uttarakhand), Jul 13 (ANI): The apple crop has been damaged in Dhana Chuli in Nanital district of Uttarakhand due to deteriorating climatic conditions.Less rainfall and hailstorms have damaged the crop ... Read more...
Posted in National |
Changing climate damages apple crop in Haldwani
July 13th, 2010 - 8:00 pm ICT by ANI
Haldwani (Uttarakhand), July 13 (ANI): The apple crop has been damaged in Haldwani in Uttarakhand owing to poor climatic conditions."The crop has been totally damaged. Though the crop yield was good but ... Read more...
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Climate change ‘dangerous for alpine regions’
June 16th, 2010 - 4:31 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, June 16 (ANI): A new study has suggested that climate change can cause increasing and unpredictable hazard risks in mountainous regions.Researchers from University of Exeter and Austria said that the Alpine ... Read more...
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Climate change caused mass extinction of mammals 50,000 years ago
May 19th, 2010 - 1:10 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, May 19 (ANI): Climate change played a major role in causing mass extinction of mammals in the late quaternary era, 50,000 years ago, an international team of scientists have discovered.Their study ... Read more...
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Poplars, just like humans, also feel stressed
May 7th, 2010 - 1:49 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, May 7 (ANI): Just like humans, trees too, feel stressed. And scientists have now claimed that hormone suppression could help common poplars- cottonwoods and aspens-deal with stress.Trees' stress can come from ... Read more...
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Take advantage of good monsoon: Swaminathan
April 24th, 2010 - 7:00 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 24 (IANS) With a good monsoon forecast this year, noted agricultural scientist M.S. Swaminathan Saturday said the country should learn to take "advantage" of plentiful rain, just as there ... Read more...
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Amazon rain forests were unaffected from once-in-a-century drought in 2005
March 12th, 2010 - 3:04 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, March 12 (ANI): A new NASA-funded study has concluded that the Amazon rain forests were remarkably unaffected in the face of once-in-a-century drought in 2005, neither dying nor thriving, contrary to ... Read more...
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Scientists measure impacts of changing climate on ocean biology
February 26th, 2010 - 4:06 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Feb 26 (ANI): A three-year field program now underway is measuring carbon distributions and primary productivity in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean to help scientists worldwide determine the impacts of a changing ... Read more...
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Dust storms from Arctic may affect climate and health in the Americas and Europe
February 20th, 2010 - 3:15 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Feb 20 (ANI): New evidence has emerged which indicates that dust storms in the arctic, possibly caused by receding glaciers, may be making similar deposits in northern Europe and North America, ... Read more...
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US forests can soak up 50 year-equivalent of CO2 emissions
December 13th, 2009 - 10:55 am ICT by IANS
Washington, Dec 13 (IANS) Forests and soils in the US could soak up additional quantities of carbon dioxide (CO2) and mitigate climate change, says a new estimate.
The 48 US states can potentially ... Read more...
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