Vijayawada, Sept. 22: While farmers producing paddy, cotton and pulses are struggling due to the dry spell, fish farmers are now severely affected due to the sudden fall in temperature in the day. Fish worth Rs 5 crore perished in the Gudivada revenue division during the last two days due to dissolution of oxygen and sudden increase of toxic gases in fish tanks.
Food aid is at a 20-year low despite the number of critically hungry people soaring this year to its highest level ever, the United Nations relief agency said Wednesday.
The number of hungry people will pass 1 billion this year for the first time, the U.N. World Food Program (WFP) said, adding that it is facing a serious budget shortfall.
As a result of climate change, much of the Indo-Gangetic plain and parts of northwest India could see increasing temperatures and worsening heat-waves from the middle to the end of this century, say researchers in the U.S.
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: R K Pachauri, environmental scientist and chairman of Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) which won the Nobel prize, has called upon Kerala to be a model to the rest of the world on regaining and reviving the global ecosystem.
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.
The publication reviews a selection of transboundary governance systems from around the world tackling the issue of shared resources and environmental impacts affecting them.
