Goa Governor S.S. Sidhu Monday termed the beach erosion along the state's 105-km long coast as a matter of "serious concern".

Beach erosion

JAIPUR: Environmentalists, academicians and experts attending a sensitisation workshop on climate change here on September 16 will throw light on the impact of environmental degradation on weather patterns, agricultural productivity, livelihood, health and food security in the run-up to the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen this year-end.

SOUDHRITI BHABANI
At least 220 Indian scientists and 127 research organisations are joining hands for a massive study to monitor climate change in different parts of the country. Climate change in India has led to a rise in sea levels while storm surges in coastal areas have also become a major concern for environmental authorities.

Thomas Sterner speech at the University of Gothenburg on climate change.

Groups opposing climate change have been springing up in many countries, constituting a climate change movement. Several writers and movement leaders argue that climate change is an emergency that requires urgent action by governments to bring the problem under control. However, framing climate change as an emergency has several potential disadvantages.

Rather than placing ourselves in a "fight" against climate change, or lament a lost Eden, we should take the chance to rethink how we live, says Mike Hulme.

Washington: The Arctic is warmer than it

Andrew C. Revkin

The human-driven buildup of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere appears to have ended a slide, many millenniums in the making, toward cooler summer temperatures in the Arctic, the authors of a new study report.

Sri Lanka is among much of South Asian and African nations that face extreme risk from climate change but top carbon polluters will be relatively shielded from its ravages, according to a ranking of 166 nations obtained by AFP yesterday.

New Delhi: It

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