Environment

Climate Change Debate Ends In Global Accord

Climate Change Debate Ends In Global Accord I would so love to see that headline for real; wouldn't you? I can just imagine some of the big names on both sides of the debate coming together for a meeting in a Berlin beer cellar, perhaps the famous Ku ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Feb 28 2010 - 10:37pm

Plant sciences vs biotechnology vs GM goods Where would the botanist belong?

During a meeting of Plant tissue culture association wonderful explanations about the genomes of rice strctural and functional genomics are presented. At the same time a a dozen or more presentations are about transgenic plants and some on plant tissue cul ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Mar 3 2010 - 10:31am

Biofuel is not ‘worse than regular petrol or diesel’ provided a three tier model is adopted and forests are not cleared to raise biofuel

Biofuel   is not ‘worse than regular petrol or diesel’ provided a three tier model is adopted and forests are not cleared to raise biofuel <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />   ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Mar 7 2010 - 9:58pm

Ecofriendly plant CROPS FOR BIOFUELS AND BIOENERGY

Professor Dr. Ashwani Kumar Professor of Botany Hon Director, Life Sciences Energy Plantation Demonstration Project Center, Department of Botany, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, 302004. Phone 00 91 141 654100 Fax 00 91 141 565905 Email. msku4@hotmail.com ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Mar 7 2010 - 10:11pm

Green Mecca... Detroit?

Having once been an environmental activist, one thing that bothers me about modern day environmental activists (*) is their insistence, despite any evidence, that jamming people into cities and going to Farmer's Markets and having governments buy huge ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 9 2010 - 3:23pm

Mother Earth Cycles To Work

Mother Earth Cycles To Work Anthropogenic global warming. AGW Human-caused warming. Call it what you will: is it real? In short: can humans modify Earth's climate? There are two major views on this question: 1- human emissions of CO2 cause global war ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Mar 10 2010 - 6:31pm

Its change of mindset which is needed to replace wood and dung biofuel with biofuel oils

Women in rural India spend hours together traversing vast tracts of hilly terrain to collect the firewood for household leaving their family and children at home. Some times there is "Pakad" i.e. Forest Officials detain them and fine them Rs 2100 ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Mar 11 2010 - 8:23am

Never Mind The Hype- Amazon Unaffected By Recent Drought

Amazon rain forests were unaffected by a major drought in 2005, neither dying nor thriving, contrary to a previously published report and claims made the by the IPCC, according to a new study in Geophysical Research Letters. "We found no big differenc ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 11 2010 - 5:05pm

Revival of festivals linked with trees is essential to save plants

When I was  child my mother used to worship BARGAD  i.e. Ficus bengalensis and  PEEPAL  i.e.    Ficus religiosa on a particular day in month of June calling Badmawas i.e. dark moon day falling in summer. BOTH THE TREES HAVE LIVES OF OVER SEVERAL HUNDRED YE ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Mar 11 2010 - 9:42pm

Is corn the right choice for ethanol production?

"Renewable fuels got a "bit ahead of themselves in the public eye in 2008 when gasoline was over $4 a gallon and the race to biofuels was on," said Chris Kraft, president of Nashville, Tenn.-based CKFutures.com. "High fossil fuels lead ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Mar 13 2010 - 7:58pm