Environment

Reading The Cryosphere A picture is worth a thousand words- but only if you can speak the language. When examining satellite images of the cryosphere it helps to know something of the mechanisms which can create the effects seen. The skills needed in int ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Mar 24 2011 - 3:02pm

Use tidal waves and not nuclear reactors: play it safe.

When I was student at University of Rajasthan and lived in Gokhle hostel room number 6 in 1965 there was strong debate on nuclear reactors, nuclear energy, nuclear power, nuclear non proliferation treaty, horizontal and vertical spread of nuclear power and ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Mar 23 2011 - 8:39pm

Arctic Ice March 2011 Update #2

Arctic Ice March 2011 Update #2 The melt season of 2010 ended with a low extent and with little ice older than two years. There are strong indications that the winter of 2010- 2011 did not compact and thicken the sea ice as much as would normally be expec ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Mar 27 2011 - 9:00am

Who cares for Yamuna and Indian rivers

Scientists are buisy writing for magazines with impact factor and H factor value who cares for river Yamuna? This was news item that drains will stop flowing in Yamuna in Delhi area in next 4 years time. A promise of politicians. They are planning another ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Mar 28 2011 - 5:33am

Carbon footprint labels? You might have a few surprises...

Labeling things with their carbon footprint is an idea that I didn't realise was new; in fact I thought it had been done already at Tesco's. Anyway, my ignorance aside, Vandenbergh et al have recommended them, writing in Nature Climate Change tha ...

Blog Post - Oliver Knevitt - Mar 31 2011 - 4:07am

Pipes, Plants, Water And Cooling

DUBAI, UAE, April 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/-- As GCC countries approach their stiflingly hot summer months, the matter of cooling people, places and businesses will be at the forefront of everybody's mind. New technologies to keep cool come and go, but on ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Apr 3 2011 - 12:05pm

Carbon sequestration, nutrient cycle and falling leaves

One can see its autumn season now and leaves are falling in tropical climate. The fallen leaves contain almost 40 percent carbon which has been absorbed from the atmosphere. Thus plants help remove the carbon from the atmosphere. However growing plants d ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Apr 3 2011 - 1:41pm

Feed People Or Preserve The Environment?

If you read this site, it won't surprise you to see me write that some people feel like the environment is more important than their fellow man. I am not saying they all want to kill their fellow man, though some advocate forced birth control, while ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Apr 6 2011 - 2:45pm

Sahara Dust In European Skies

Sahara Dust In European Skies The skies over southern England were hazy on Friday April 08 2011. In the evening the usual colors of sunset were absent. A muddy grey-brown haze could be seen along the horizon. That haze was caused by dust from the Sahar ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Apr 11 2011 - 10:19pm

What is corruption?

If one utilizes from the mother earth more than required for his daily life from air, water, food, fiber, shelter, recreation, and destroys mother earth for its greed to have more and more for himself at the cost of poor and downtrodden, underprivileged, u ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Apr 9 2011 - 7:28am