Environment

Japanese Nuclear Reactor Future: Another High Tech Sarcophagus?

Even one year after the disaster at the Daiichi nuclear plant in Fukushima, Japan, it is still unfolding. It was locally surpassing the severity of Chernobyl relatively soon in the first few weeks. Four out of the six facilities were already no more than a ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Mar 13 2012 - 11:26am

Irrigation- The Big Carbon Elephant In The Global Warming Room

Rice and wheat take a lot of water to grow and no one eats more than China.  That also means no one contributes more to global warming from irrigation than China- a whopping 30 million tons of CO2 per year just from the pumping systems China uses. Like eve ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 17 2012 - 1:00pm

India and China rank 123rd and 121st in pollution control: Save rivers and hills save nature

India and China rank 123rd and 121st in pollution control respectively, reflecting the strain rapid economic growth imposes on the environment, according to the 2010 Environmental Performance Index (EPI). The other day I travelled across India in train and ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Mar 25 2012 - 6:56pm

Antimicrobial drugs from plants: future prospects

The problem of microbial resistance is growing and the outlook for the use of antimicrobial drugs in the future is still uncertain. This problem can be reduced by controlling the use of antibiotic, develop research to better understand the genetic mechanis ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Apr 10 2012 - 1:01pm

Prepper Advice: Sunlight And Lime Juice Makes Drinking Water Safer

Whether you are concerned about Mayans, a worldwide infrastructure collapse or an exploding supervolcano, science has some good news for your doomsday preparation-  sunlight and a twist of lime are an inexpensive and effective way to quickly improve the qu ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 17 2012 - 11:54am

Saving rivers Ganga and Yamuna

I was very happy to note that recently there were important meetings in India held at highest level and some movements of some groups to save Yamuna. What makes me wonder all these groups look towards some agencies for saving something? if you are in front ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Apr 19 2012 - 10:02pm

On Shifting Sands: Our Growing Coastal Erosion Problem

Every once in a while, I like to go for a run on the beach. One of my favorite spots to hit the sand is San Gregorio State Beach – it lies just across the Santa Cruz range, is invariably quiet early on weekday mornings, and offers a good stretch of hard-pa ...

Article - Holly Moeller - Apr 30 2012 - 10:32pm

Pollution in river waters: 20 percent higher levels of arsenic

Pollution in holy rivers is going to higher levels and it is threat to mankind. Arsenic once reported from West Bengal waters is deadly poison to human health. Recently a report said arsenic level in river Yamuna has risen to 20 times. Rivers and water bod ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Apr 27 2012 - 8:47pm

Excessive use of fertilizers is reducing productivity.

Fertilizers producing wastelands in semi arid and arid regions. Some months ago I attended a conference in Germany where excessive use of nitrogen fertilizers was a cause of concern for the European Nations. Back home there is report that excessive use of ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Apr 28 2012 - 11:01pm

Poison In Ground Water Posing Health Threats

I wrote some time back of bad quality water causing soil damage. Hinduatan Times (02.05.2012 confirms the same with findings placed at highest level. Ground water pockets in 158 out of 639 districts have gone saline. I may add at this point that as we go d ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - May 2 2012 - 9:38am