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G8 Ministers ponder Greenhouse Gas cut by 2050: Will it be far too late?
I have of late been noticing some talks about the entire global warming issue being over hyped. They are basically citing some scientists who have argued that the recent climate changes and natural calamities have not been caused by the so called...
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Climate change, troubled times ahead!
As I write this piece, there is a heavy down pour outside. The distant hills are shrouded in clouds. It’s only May, yet it looks like the monsoon rains have arrived. Shimla has an average of 5 rainy days during May but its rained almost every day and..
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Tourism invading areas once reserved for the gods
High altitude areas and alpine pastures are the most alluring landscapes in the Himalayas. Befittingly, the locals have reserved them for the deities. But in recent years as modern mass tourism grows, these fragile heights are being assaulted by an...
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Bio diversity is declining in Britain: Will it lead to some soul searching?
I always used to think that the developed nations have a better record with the environment, with more educated and active citizens always taking part in the conservation process. Part of such belief has grown out of a memoir written by a renowned...
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Dwindling Biodiversity: The beginning of our end?
I remember I was in the fifth standard when I happened to read an article in some magazine about the extinct species of India. Through that article I came to know certain things which I never knew before. For example, very few people would know that...
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Polar bear to be protected under the Endangered Species Act
At last the polar bear seems to be getting its rightfully deserved protection under the Endangered Species Act according to which critically imperiled species are given protection against extinction. The decision was taken by The Interior Department..
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Narwhal, the spiral-tusked Arctic whale - yet another victim of global warming
The US Government is out to list the polar bear as a threatened species owing to global warming, but a recent study by scientist Kristin Laidre of the Polar Science Center (University of Washington) published in the Ecological Applications reveals that.
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Carbon dioxide levels reach peak value for the last 650,000 years - Report
Scientists from Mauna Loa Observatory (Hawaii) and the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have unanimously cautioned the world about the dangerous levels to which atmospheric carbon dioxide has increased in the last six years. Today,...
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'Global warming is going to kill me before it kills you': Tropical insect to polar bear
A lot has been said, written and discussed about the effect of global warming on the life forms inhabiting the polar region. The polar bear was feared to become extinct on account of temperature rises. But, a shocking revelation by Curtis Deutsch...
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We are drowning… Is anybody listening? ask the Murray islanders
Changing climate and the resulting rise in the level of water is the biggest threat that the inhabitants of the islands of the Torres Strait in Australia are facing. The worst affected ones are the low-lying islands like the Murray Island where the...
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Eight weird tree sculptures carved by nature
Plants and trees have excellent flexibility. They are capable of creating strange works of unintentional art that you just watch them bewildered. There are artists who have given meaningful shapes to trees such as of tables and mirrors. Tree sculptures ar
The Big Question: Are vertical farms really green?
Why we are asking this nowThe concept of vertical farming is receiving a number of positive as well as negative feedback, right from its inception. Many agriculturalists and socialists have analyzed the usefulness of this concept in the practical world. I
10 Innovative curtains designed to conserve energy
Curtains are primarily meant to avert sunlight and heat from entering our rooms. Draping over the windows and doors curtains secure us. Here we talk about ten innovative curtains that can conserve energy in various ways. There are curtains embedded with s
What’s Next: Future homes to eschew apocalypse
As we know it The claims of an apocalypse-like situation may be wrong. But, it can't be denied that millions of people around the world die every year because of natural disasters like earthquake, flood, tsunami and tornado. The world faces about 600 disa
