Lizards Dying Of Heat
May 14th, 2010 - 8:48 pm ICT by Pen Men At Work
May 14, 2010 (Pen Men at Work): It appears that it is not just the human beings, who are encountering the warming of the earth and the consequent rising temperature. Apparently, global ... Read more...
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World’s temperature record to be re-analyzed
February 25th, 2010 - 2:22 pm ICT by ANI
London, Feb 25 (ANI): Reports indicate that the whole of the world's instrumental temperature record is to be re-analyzed in an attempt to remove doubts about the reality of global warming.According ... Read more...
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Pachauri insists science behind global warming remains ‘totally valid’
February 5th, 2010 - 5:52 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, Feb 5(ANI): UN Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) chief Dr Rajendra Kumar Pachauri has insisted that the science behind global warming remains valid, despite recent embarrassing mistakes which has ... Read more...
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Top scientist holds humankind responsible for climate change (Lead)
January 7th, 2010 - 3:03 pm ICT by IANS
By Fakir Balaji
Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 7 (IANS) India's top farm scientist M.S. Swaminathan holds humankind solely responsible for global warming causing climatic changes."Global warming is anthropogenic (man-made) and not caused by nature. Man ... Read more...
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‘Humankind solely responsible for climate change’
January 7th, 2010 - 1:54 pm ICT by IANS
By Fakir Balaji
Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 7 (IANS) India's top farm scientist M.S. Swaminathan holds humankind solely responsible for global warming causing climatic changes."Global warming is anthropogenic (man-made) and not caused by nature. Man ... Read more...
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Nathan Myhrvold Comes Up With Anti-Global Warming Suggestion
December 21st, 2009 - 9:21 pm ICT by GD
By Meena Kar
Dec. 21, (THAINDIAN NEWS) The climate research scientists in Copenhagen Climate Conference have tried to find out several ways to check the increasing effects of global warming. Though the climate ... Read more...
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Peru announces construction of 100 dams
October 27th, 2009 - 12:15 pm ICT by IANS
Lima, Oct 27 (EFE) Peruvian President Alan Garcia has announced the construction of 100 dams and 30 reservoirs, projects that the government forecasts will be concluded by the end of 2010.
"We have ... Read more...
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Climate change hits poor in Africa, South Asia hardest: World Bank
October 4th, 2009 - 3:18 pm ICT by IANS
Istanbul, Oct 4 (DPA) Climate change could depress the economic output of Africa and South Asia by as much as five percent per year, the World Bank warned Sunday.
The effects of a ... Read more...
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Global warming may hasten carbon release from worlds peat bogs
November 7th, 2008 - 1:54 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Nov 7 (ANI): A new analysis has determined that billions of tons of carbon sequestered in the worlds peat bogs could be released into the atmosphere in the coming decades ... Read more...
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World Ozone Day (16 September) and our commitments
September 15th, 2008 - 1:58 pm ICT by admin
By Vasu Shena MisraSeptember 16 every year is observed as "World Ozone Day". The celebration of this day is made to pay our homage to the ozone layer, that saves our earth ... Read more...
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Kolkata teenager keen to fight greenhouse effect
June 17th, 2008 - 8:56 pm ICT by ANI
By Ajitha Menon
Kolkata, June 17 (ANI): Rishika Das Roy, a student in Kolkata has been contributing in her own small way to persuade her friends to cut on their lavish lifestyle ... Read more...
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