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...
Archive - May 2008
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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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