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As I read the local paper today, another incidence of a cloudburst is reported from the Rajgarh area of Himachal. Unlike tropical cyclones, tornadoes and hurricanes, cloudbursts hardly make it to the news headlines. Perhaps because they affect only a...
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...
It is funny when you see the Dutch environment minister hold a poster up saying that ‘It is up to UN now’, maybe stating that the talks on the paradise island of Bali have come to a sudden stop. What is funny about the sign is the fact that it seems...
Renewable energy, be it biofuels, solar or wind power are increasingly high on national and global agendas. It will also be the focus of the UN conference on Climate Change scheduled for 3-14 December in Bali this year.
While rapid economic...
Wow. India and Asia will be devastated. Beware. Get your act together. Become more and more compliant with every which environmental rule in the book, otherwise you will have floods, uncontrolled movement of peoples, droughts and all sorts of...
Starving souls glare with empty eyes as their will slowly wilts under the continuous glare of the sun & more so with the lack of any imminent hope. They wait for a knight in shining armor to come show them the way in to pastures more green, quite...
Dinosaurs which were the earth's dominant inhabitants in the pre-historic era were wiped out suddenly. Scientists believe it could be due to some major changes in the earth's climate, perhaps due to earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, meteoric impacts...
The UN’s recent Human Development Report 2007 targets India as a major environmental polluter and asks India to clean up her act. And why should India not be blamed for global warming? For the simple reason, we are not a rich country. Put simply, we...
As the world gets richer, environment gets poorer. With technological advancement, there is degradation in the environment. Russia, China, U.S. and India stand as the biggest polluters on earth. Disasters like Chernobyl and Bhopal haven't opened the...
Good news for tiger lovers comes calling from Maharashtra’s Sahyadri, where a troupe of 20 tigers has been spotted to the amazement of wild life conservationists, sending a beacon of light amongst darkness.No, can't be sure , especially when the...
A UN climate change meet has urged India and China to cut down on their carbon emissions because of being among the most vulnerable to global warming.
India and China, the two fastest developing economies are also the largest polluters of...
The latest tiger census is ready to send startling numbers of tigers in the country. The number is much less than earlier thought. What is the future of tigers in this country that is continuously showing a declining trend, thanks to the illegal...
Mild earthquake of 4.9 magnitude occurred in the most seismically active zone of northern India at 4.32 a.m. (2302 GMT). The epicenter of the earthquake was in Gomukh near Gangotri, about 250 km north east of Uttaranchal’s capital Dehradun.
The...
At a time when the venom of global warming is spreading steadily and concern for counteracting it is growing all over the world, India has decided to set its own pace for going green. One of the largest contributors of greenhouse gases to the...
A FAO report has warned India over the locust invasion. The locusts are known to reap havoc in Africa and the news of their crossing into India has put the Indian agencies on tenterhooks.
As India wets itself under the monsoon rains, the news of a...
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