Environment

Siberian Cranes- among the most endangered birds in the world- have skipped India this winter, say experts.

When I was undergraduate student in 1963 the Bharatpur Kevladev Bird Sanctuary, Bhartpur was a reed swap stage ecological formation where some level of water stayed all around the year. Then came one year when for preventing cattle grazers and encroachers ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Feb 12 2010 - 9:15pm

Urbanization, Global Trade Drive Deforestation, Study Says

 A new study of  most of the world's tropical land area indicates that urbanization and globalized agricultural trade have become the primary drivers of tropical deforestation, in stark contrast to the assumptions of some scientists that fast-growing ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2010 - 7:02pm

Decreasing Fog Threatens Redwoods Along California's Coast

California's coastal fog is decreasing significantly and may endanger redwood trees along the coast dependent on cool, humid summers, according to a new study to be published in PNAS. It is unclear whether this is part of a natural cycle of the result ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 15 2010 - 5:50pm

Indoor pollution could be mitigated with bio fuel resources.

As 70 percent of the agriculture based population lives in villages where  the only accessible source of fuel is wood fuel, cow dung cakes and agricultural waste material like wheat straw, culms of crops left in the field and the twigs of plants which hav ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Feb 16 2010 - 7:30pm

James Bay Region Permafrost Rapidly Receding

The southern limit of permafrost in the James Bay Region in northern Quebec, Canada is now 130 kilometers further north than it was 50 years ago, according to two researchers from the Department of Biology at Université Laval. A lack of long term climatic ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2010 - 7:02pm

A century ago, biofuels (wood, dung and crop residues) provided the great majority of household energy worldwide

A century ago, biofuels (wood, dung and crop residues) provided the great majority of household energy worldwide. With the advent of fuels such as oil and gas, and the more widespread availability of electricity, the share of household energy from bio-fue ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Feb 18 2010 - 12:02am

Bigger, More Frequent Forest Fires Could Benefit Pacific Northwest

Many scientists warn that with a changing climate there's a good chance that forest fires in the Pacific Northwest will become larger and more frequent – and according to one expert, that's just fine. The future of fire in this region is difficul ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 24 2010 - 2:32pm

CRACICE Team's Cracked Ice Study Goes Crack!

CRACICE Team's Cracked Ice Study Goes Crack! A team of scientists has been studying two cracks in an ice tongue to see if they would meet.  During that study the tongue was rammed by a giant iceberg.  The team studying the development of two major cr ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Feb 28 2010 - 6:57am

Global environmental changes and carbon trading

Globally environmental changes are happening very fast. Drying up of Aral sea and Sambher lake is one example. Drying up water bodies are another concern globally. Although 3 fourth of the earth is saline water but man has not learned to use it safely and ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Feb 26 2010 - 6:17pm

IPCC Seeks Independent Review Committee For 5th Report

IPCC Seeks Independent Review Committee For 5th Report The IPCC has started work on the preparation of its Fifth Assessment Report (AR5).  They are currently looking for experts who can act as authors: http://www.ipcc.ch/ The IPCC is also seeking to estab ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Feb 27 2010 - 10:21pm