The hands-off approach of the Meghalaya government towards the state

Policy makers in India recognize the importance of well-functioning markets to agricultural growth, food security, and broad-based rural development. Markets facilitate the commercialization and diversification of farming, and they are essential for efficiently bringing food and agricultural products to domestic and international consumers.

This proposed legislation allows competitive bidding by steel, power and iron companies for coal mining blocks. The Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2008 was introduced in the Rajya Sabha on October 17, 2008.

Government of Goa has adopted a policy on roof-top rainwater harvesting and this notification gives details for the guidance of all concerned departments for implementation of the policy.The policy does not include within its purview rain water harvesting for ground water recharge. It shall be implemented by the Water Resources Department and shall apply to the whole state.

Despite cooler temperatures and ice-favoring conditions, long-term decline continues. This is a press release from NSIDC, which is part of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

The paper examines the extent to which the developed countries are shouldering their responsibility for mitigating climate change. Developed countries have a responsibility to reduce the threat of climate change in two ways: (1) by reducing their own emissions and (2) by facilitating the mitigation efforts of developing countries by providing financial support.

This factsheet provides the information on the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder(AIRS), which advances climate research
and weather prediction into the 21st century. AIRS is one of six
instruments onboard Aqua, a satellite that is part of NASA

JPL Historian Erik Conway provides an overview of the sequence of events that lead to the link between human activity, carbon dioxide, and global warming. Conway also examines how the spaceborne instrument, the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder, has become part of the story.

How does a spaceborne instrument like AIRS extract carbon dioxide from Earth's atmosphere, and what is its data revealing?

This Thematic Research Summary on the environmental aspects of transport and
sustainable mobility aims to provide the reader with a synthesis of results of completed
European research projects related to that theme. It consists of two main parts. The first
part includes a brief overview of the scope of the theme and summarises the main policy

Pages