Cities all over the world are trying to ease congestion on roads. Not the chocked Indian cities, through. Time to make cars in India pay the real cost of using roads.
The annual burial of organic carbon in lakes and reservoirs exceeds that of ocean sediments, but inland waters are components of the global carbon cycle that receive only limited attention. Here the authors find that the mineralization of organic carbon in lake sediments exhibits a strong positive relationship with temperature, suggesting that warmer water temperatures lead to more mineralization and less organic carbon burial.
London: Scientists claim to have found the first direct evidence that bacteria in the ocean can harvest light energy from sunlight for survival, thanks to a unique photoprotein.
Collection and treatment of waste from electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) is regulated in the European Union by the WEEE Directive. Producers are responsible for take-back and recycling of discarded equipment. Valuable materials are, however, at risk of "getting lost" in current processes. Thus, strategies to minimize losses are sought after.
The politics and the underlying reasons behind the recovery of the Scandinavian wolf population are increasingly contested. According to official policy, wolves should be guaranteed a place in the Swedish natural world.
The climate challenge is so serious that all possible policy measures need to be considered. Currently however, there tends to be a focus on regulations and emissions trading as the main ways of reducing carbon emissions. The use of taxation seems to be ignored or forgotten.
Human activities have more than doubled the amount of nitrogen(N) circulating in the biosphere. One major pathway of thisanthropogenic N input into ecosystems has been increased regionaldeposition from the atmosphere.
The Swedish Prime Minister, representing the EU presidency, visits Delhi on 5th and 6th of Nov. 2009. The visit comes just three days after he visited Washington, and two days after he wrote an op-ed that says:
India and Sweden are expected to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on environment as Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt visits India on Thursday for the 10th India-EU summit.
The MoU will cover climate change, clean technology, clean development mechanisms, environmental protection, environmental governance and air-water quality.
