The Supreme Court on Monday asked the government to finalise by February 23, 2010, the next date of hearing on how soon the expert panel headed by environmentalist R K Pachauri would conclude the Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) study of an alternative alignment for Sethusamudram Ship Channel Project between Dhanushkodi and Rameswaram Island.
Tokyo: Japanese researchers said on Thursday they had found a way to make plant leaves absorb more carbon dioxide in an innovation that may one day help ease global warming and boost food production.
To sequester carbon dioxide as part of any climate-change mitigation strategy, the gas first has to be captured from the flue at a power plant or other source. The next step is just as important: the CO has to be released from
There could be some reason for environmentalists to cheer. This year has seen a significant increase in snowfall in the upper region of Western Himalayas, the primary source of river water for northern India, vis-
She is possibly the most expensive baby in the country today and certainly among the most pampered.
Garima, the cloned buffalo calf born as part of a Rs 7 crore National Agricultural Innovation Project funded by World Bank, is growing handsomely at National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI), Karnal.
Born a healthy 43 kg on June 6, the calf is now five-and-a-half months old.
This article analyzes the interaction between stakeholders in the clean development mechanism (CDM) in Brazil and assesses the impacts this market mechanism has had on institutions and on the climate change policy discourse in Brazil. Brazil ranks as the third largest host country for CDM projects, even though it has maintained a strong commitment to the environmental integrity of the CDM system.
After a spate of deliberations with experts on climate change, Himachal Pradesh has finally outlined a first-of-the-kind research project in the country to study the impact of climate change on the state
