Republican lawmaker Pawlenty apologizes for cap-and-trade support
May 1st, 2011 - 7:00 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, May 1 (ANI): Potential Republican Presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty has issued an apology for his past support for a cap-and-trade environmental policy.Former Minnesota Governor said that his past support for ... Read more...
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BRICS has extremely healthy global presence: Brazilian president
April 11th, 2011 - 4:18 pm ICT by IANS
Brasilia, April 11 (IANS) Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has said that the BRICS group of countries have an "extremely healthy" global presence.Rousseff spoke to Xinhua before travelling to China to ... 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...
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Human activities putting Antarctica’s marine ecosystems under threat
April 1st, 2011 - 3:19 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, April 01 (ANI): The native fauna and unique ecology of the Southern Ocean, the vast body of water around the Antarctic continent, is under threat from human activity, according to a ... Read more...
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Deal locally with climate change impact
March 21st, 2011 - 3:22 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, March 21 (IANS) Think globally, but act locally when studying about plants, animals and the impact of global warming, advise researchers.Policy makers have been pressing biologists to dissect how ... Read more...
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Biochar may help suppress greenhouse gases
March 19th, 2011 - 5:43 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, March 19 (ANI): Tests conducted by scientists at Lincoln University in New Zealand have indicated that adding biochar to the soil could be used to suppress nitrous oxide derived from livestock. ... Read more...
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Gulf spill air pollution could shed light on urban air quality
March 11th, 2011 - 1:37 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Mar 11 (ANI): NOAA researchers discovered an important new mechanism by which air pollution particles form, which could change the way urban air quality is understood and predicted.The NOAA-led team showed ... Read more...
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Soot on Tibetan snow ’causes more rainfall over India and China’
March 4th, 2011 - 5:28 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Mar 4 (ANI): A new study has suggested that in some cases, soot - the fine, black carbon silt that is released from stoves, cars and manufacturing plants - can pack ... Read more...
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Soot on Tibetan snow causes rainfall over India, China
March 4th, 2011 - 1:38 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, March 4 (IANS) Soot falling on the snow covered Tibetan Plateau causes more rainfall over India and China, says a new study.Soot precipitates the plateau's glacier to melt sooner ... Read more...
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Palm oil business killing orangutans: French filmmaker
March 2nd, 2011 - 12:52 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, March 2 (IANS) China, Europe and India are fuelling the high demand for palm oil, in turn leading to the rapid destruction of rainforests and the rampant killing of ... Read more...
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Hindus back Catholic Bishops on Climate Change policy protecting world’s poor
February 19th, 2011 - 5:29 pm ICT by ANI
Nevada (US), Feb 19 (ANI): Hindus have commended the Global Climate Change policy statement of United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) which says, "Policies addressing global climate change should enhance rather ... Read more...
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Greenhouse emissions led to increase in extreme rains, says study
February 17th, 2011 - 1:20 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Feb 17 (ANI): A new study has revealed that high greenhouse gas emissions have contributed to increase in extreme rain events seen in North America over the second half of the ... Read more...
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Halting emissions would still make earth warmer
February 16th, 2011 - 3:50 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Feb 16 (IANS) If greenhouse gas emissions stopped now, the earth would still likely get warmer.
While governments debate about potential policies that might curb the emission of greenhouse gases, new ... Read more...
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Wolverines to vanish due to climate change?
February 9th, 2011 - 1:18 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Feb 09 (ANI): A new research has concluded that the aggressive wolverine may not be powerful enough to survive climate change in the contiguous United States.Wolverine habitat in the northwestern United ... Read more...
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India should provide leadership, says UN climate chief (Lead)
February 5th, 2011 - 5:59 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Feb 5 (IANS) India should play a leadership role to ensure rich nations do more to combat global warming, UN climate chief Christiana Figueres said Saturday."I hope India takes leadership ... Read more...
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We expect leadership from India: UN climate chief
February 5th, 2011 - 2:17 pm ICT by IANS
By Joydeep Gupta
New Delhi, Feb 5 (IANS) India played an "exceedingly helpful role" in the last climate summit and "we expect the same this year and beyond", UN climate chief Christiana Figueres ... Read more...
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PM wants to end environmentally damaging behaviour
February 3rd, 2011 - 3:01 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Feb 3 (IANS) India must put in place regulatory environment policies that will prevent "potentially damaging behaviour" but not retore the "license permit raj", Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said ... Read more...
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Massive volcanic eruptions wiped out life on sea, land
January 24th, 2011 - 5:59 pm ICT by IANS
Toronto, Jan 24 (IANS) Massive volcanic eruptions that produced ash clouds wiped out nearly 95 percent of life on sea and 70 percent on land.
"This could literally be the smoking ... Read more...
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Massive volcanic eruption ’caused world’s largest extinction’
January 24th, 2011 - 1:35 pm ICT by ANI
London, Jan 24 (ANI): Toxic coal ash produced as a result of massive volcanic eruptions may have led to the largest extinction event in Earth's history, according to Canadian researchers.The Permian ... Read more...
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New tillage practice cuts greenhouse emissions, ups farm yields
January 14th, 2011 - 6:40 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Jan 14 (ANI): Can farmers reduce nitrous oxide, thought to contribute to global warming, and increase crop production simply by adopting a new tillage practice?Well, researchers at the University of ... Read more...
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Earth’s hot past points to drastic global warming
January 14th, 2011 - 1:03 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Jan 14 (ANI): A new analysis has concluded that the magnitude of climate change during Earth's deep past suggests that future temperatures may eventually rise far more than projected if society ... Read more...
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2010 tied for warmest year on record
January 13th, 2011 - 1:10 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Jan 13 (ANI): A new study by researchers at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York has revealed that the global surface temperatures in 2010 tied with 2005 ... Read more...
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Atmosphere still has self-cleansing capacity
January 11th, 2011 - 4:04 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Jan 11 (IANS) There's cheering news on the environmental front -- the atmosphere still has its self-cleansing capacity.Some studies had suggested that such self-cleansing power is fragile and sensitive to environmental ... Read more...
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Freshwater methane emission changes greenhouse gas equation
January 7th, 2011 - 6:01 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Jan 7 (ANI): Greenhouse gas uptake by continents is less than previously thought because of methane emissions from freshwater areas, to newly released data by an international team of scientists.John Downing ... Read more...
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Chennai students design nano satellite, to be launched April
January 6th, 2011 - 3:53 pm ICT by IANS
By Richa Sharma
Chennai, Jan 6 (IANS) A group of 54 engineering students from the city has designed a 10-kg nano satellite to monitor greenhouse gases (GHG) that the Indian space ... Read more...
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Genetically modified pig ‘Frankenswine’ cheaper, greener
January 5th, 2011 - 12:07 pm ICT by ANI
London, Jan 5 (ANI): Scientists have genetically modified a Yorkshire pig, which will be the first of a new generation of 'Frankenswine' hogs that are designed to be cheaper and greener.It tastes ... Read more...
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Tata funds research project on water as auto fuel
December 31st, 2010 - 6:47 pm ICT by IANS
Bangalore, Dec 31 (IANS) India's top industrialist Ratan Tata has funded a research project in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to use hydrogen from water as an alternative fuel to drive ... Read more...
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Polar bears ‘threatened’, not ‘endangered’
December 23rd, 2010 - 12:27 pm ICT by ANI
London, Dec 23 (ANI): The Obama administration has confirmed an earlier Bush-era decision that polar bears are merely 'threatened' rather than 'endangered'.The US Department of the Interior has upheld a ... Read more...
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Rising greenhouse gases could have significant impacts on ocean life
December 22nd, 2010 - 5:16 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Dec 22 (ANI): A new study has suggested that the prolonged, extensive emission of greenhouse gases over the next few decades could have major impacts on ocean life.UC Merced marine biologist ... Read more...
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Global warming to turn clouds into heat traps
December 12th, 2010 - 6:04 pm ICT by IANS
London, Dec 12 (IANS) Global warming will turn clouds into heat traps, worsening the greenhouse gas effects, and chances that clouds will save us from climate change are low, an expert says.
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Climate talks near finale with agreements still on hold
December 10th, 2010 - 10:51 pm ICT by IANS
By Joydeep Gupta
Cancun (Mexico), Dec 10 (IANS) The annual UN climate summit entered its final day here Friday with all agreements still on hold, though many of the delegates from 193 ... Read more...
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‘Cloud feedback’ will play major role in global warming: Study
December 10th, 2010 - 5:49 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Dec 10 (ANI): Till now, one of the biggest uncertainties in climate change studies was whether clouds trap more heat or offer a net cooling.And researchers were not able to ... Read more...
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India moves to break deadlock in Cancun, activists unhappy (Lead)
December 9th, 2010 - 8:12 pm ICT by IANS
By Joydeep Gupta
Cancun/New Delhi, Dec 9 (IANS) In a radical departure in stance, India has proposed a "binding commitment under appropriate legal form" to tackle climate change. But Environment Minister Jairam ... Read more...
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India makes major move to save climate talks
December 9th, 2010 - 9:03 am ICT by IANS
By Joydeep Gupta
Cancun (Mexico), Dec 9 (IANS) India has made a major move towards a global treaty where its own attempts to tackle climate change may become a "binding commitment under appropriate ... Read more...
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Climate change ‘causing wildfires to burn more fiercely’
December 6th, 2010 - 2:35 pm ICT by ANI
London, Dec 6 (ANI): Climate change is causing wildfires to burn more fiercely, pumping more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than previously thought, reveals a new study.This is the first study to ... Read more...
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