Environment

BIOREMEDIATION OF SALINE SOILS USING HALOPHYTES. IN SEMI-ARID REGIONS OF RAJASTHAN INDIA.

BIOREMEDIATION OF SALINE SOILS USING HALOPHYTES. IN SEMI-ARID REGIONS OF RAJASTHAN INDIA. Ashwani Kumar, Departemnt of Botany, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur. 302004. India Email. Msku31@yahoo.com Fax. 00 91 141 565905 Phone 00 91 141 651627. Introduction ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Nov 2 2009 - 9:25pm

Pollution and people and Governments

Its people who can fight and control the climate change and carbon and pollution levels and not the Governments as they dont create pollution Its greed of the people, greed of the heavy industries to make more and more money unmindful of excess pollution, ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Nov 5 2009 - 7:08pm

Sanganer the world famous printing industry and hand paper industry has totally polluted the water of famous town of Sanganer Jaipur

Sanganer the world famous printing industry and hand paper industry has totally polluted the water of famous town of Sanganer Jaipur Behind the colourful bedsheets, skirts, and dress material there lies heaps of coloured water which is highly poisonous to ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Nov 5 2009 - 7:18pm

Biofuels offer clear advantages in terms of greenhouse gas emissions

· Biofuels offer clear advantages in terms of greenhouse gas emissions, but do they perform better when we look at all the environmental impacts from a life cycle perspective? ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Nov 5 2009 - 8:14pm

The early colonizers of desert soils

1 The early colonizers: Some of the early colonizers including small ephemerals include: Polygala erioptera DC.; Polycarpaea corymbosa (L.) Lamk.; Gisekia phamacioides L; Mollugo cerviana (L.) Ser.; Side ovals Forsk.; Corchorus tridens L.; Triumfetta penta ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Nov 7 2009 - 9:32pm

Squid, Wolves, And Global Warming

The Associated Press, that bastion of scientific knowledge, shares with us a list of "pests that are benefiting or could benefit from global warming", starting with:_Ticks that transmit Lyme disease are spreading northward into Sweden and Canada, ...

Article - Danna Staaf - Nov 17 2009 - 6:59pm

Intensive Land Management Puts The Hurt On Europe's Carbon Sinks

The capacity of oceans and terrestrial ecosystems such as forests and grasslands to store carbon emissions is considered one of the primary ways the effects of climate change can be mitigated. Unfortunately, such natural carbon sinks may not be much help t ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 23 2009 - 1:18pm

India Deforested By 73,000-Year-Old Toba Eruption, Study Says

A new study published in Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology suggests that the volcanic super-eruption of Toba on the island of Sumatra about 73,000 years ago deforested much of central India, some 3,000 miles from the epicenter. The volcano ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 23 2009 - 6:34pm

Researchers Aim To Restore Real Streams With Virtual Ones

University of Minnesota researchers have developed a new computer model called the Virtual StreamLab, designed to help restore real streams to a healthier state. The Virtual StreamLab demonstrates the physics of natural water flows at an unprecedented leve ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 24 2009 - 5:56pm

Saline waters are good for some plants grow them