85 per cent urban population will be a disaster A tendency has been gaining ground in some influential circles lately that India

Nellore, Sept. 8: Poor and downtrodden people living in Nelatoor, Krishnapatnam, Sembunithopu, Nakkalamitta and Ayyavarikandriga in Muthhukur mandal are struggling for survival after 4,500 acre land in the area was handed over to Reliance Power and AP Genco for setting up thermal power plants.

While alternative arrangements are being made to shift people from small habitations like Nakkalamitta, Ayyavarikandriga and Sembunithopu in the wake of acquisition of villages apart from lands, there is no word from authorities with regard to major villages like Nelatoor and Krishnapatnam.

JORHAT, Sept 5

India is truly an amazing place: it is both a graveyard of concepts that flourish happily elsewhere, and a breeding ground for those that survive only in our conditions. Terms such as class, status, nation state, and community have already undergone significant modifications in the Indian setting.

DH New Service, Chikmagalur:

"The migration of rural youth to the cities can be controlled by solving the problems associated with agriculture. Discussions must be held in this regard to initiate actions at the earliest," said State High Court retired chief justice A J Sadashiva.

The speed of the plant movement is alarming. The plant death is striking, and occurred in most species. The latest finding provide a glimpse of what could happen to the world's vegetation as the Earth faces inevitable global warming and results appear in journal Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, August 19, 2008,vol.105,no. 33,11823

A window washer dressed as spiderman scales a building. A pizza delivery man wearing superman garb rides a bike with pies in the basket. A nanny clad as catwoman attends to children. Behind the humour of these photographs by Mexican artist lie real life struggles. The photographs on show at the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago depict real immigrant workers in their everyday jobs.

Short-distance migrants adapt to climate change better after its long journey from southern Argentina, the Swainson

The forthcoming issue of FMR includes a major feature on climate change and displacement. It presents a wide range of articles, written by UN, academic, international and local actors, addressing issues of interest to people concerned with the potential for climate change to contribute to causing displacement and with the effects on those people having to adapt or migrate. 35 articles explore the extent of the potential displacement crisis, factors affecting displaced people and the search for solutions.

In 30 years, most plants in south California moved 200 feet above their previous growth range

LOS ANGELES: Striking new research in the southern California mountains suggests recent warming is behind a massive die-off and rapid migration to higher ground by nine different plants

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