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A new report published in the January 8 issue of Cell explains how plants, which are incredibly temperature sensitive, not only 'feel' the temperature rise, but also coordinate an appropriate response -- activating hundreds of genes and deactivating others; it turns out it's all about the way that their DNA is packaged. The findings may help to explain how plants will respond in the face of climate change and offer scientists new leads in the quest to create crop plants better able to withstand high temperature stress, the researchers say.
"We've uncovered a master regulator of the entire…
Damian Ryan, senior analyst, The Climate Group
"The winners are the Obama administration. The outcome should be acceptable to Congress...The most disappointed is the European Union (Photo: The Climate Group)
Damian Ryan, senior analyst, The Climate Group
"The winners are the Obama administration. The outcome should be acceptable to Congress...The most disappointed is the European Union (Photo: The Climate Group)
The Copenhagen Accord has been called many things—a crime, a cop out, a first step, a breakthrough. What would you call it?
It is a leap of faith because it…
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Planet too warm? Bury the CO2
Shobha John 8 November 2009, 10:02am ISTText Size:|Topics:earth
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Japan is the latest country to capture carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere and store it in deep geo logical formations, oceans or as mineral
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carbonates. There is good reason. The Land of the Rising Sun is the fifth largest emitter of greenhouse gases on the planet. It faces the weighty task of cutting them by 25% by 2020 against 1990 levels.
The Japanese project, at Mikawa power station near Fukuoka Prefecture, is…
Writing in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, a team of researchers says that testing hair from Asian monkeys living close to people may provide early warnings of toxic threats to humans and wildlife.
In parts of South and Southeast Asia, macaques and people are synanthropic, which means they share the same ecological niche. They drink from identical water sources, breathe the same air, share food sources, and play on the same ground.
"Macaques are similar to humans anatomically, physiologically and behaviorally," said the senior author on the study, Dr. Lisa Jones-Engel, a senior…
Environmentalists worried over global warming affecting Kashmir climate
ANI 25 December 2009, 09:53pm ISTText Size:|Topics:Kashmir Valley
Chilai Kalan
SRINAGAR: Environmentalists have expressed concern over Chilai Kalan, the 70-day-long coldest period of winter, losing its chill due to global
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warming.
During Chilai Kalan the Kashmir Valley used to receive heavy snowfall. The snow graph is however, decreasing for the last decade and experts are concerned for the environment of the state.
"There used to be maximum snowfall here during the '…
'Copenhagen could mean end of Kyoto'
TNN 28 December 2009, 02:55am ISTText Size:|Topics:India
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NEW DELHI: Prime Minister's special envoy on climate change Shyam Saran on Sunday admitted in a TV interview that the Copenhagen Accord that India
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negotiated at the recently concluded climate talks has left a window open for the burial of Kyoto Protocol.
Developing countries have been fighting for the past two years with the rich nations in order to get them to take emission reduction targets under the second phase of Kyoto…
Arctic could face seasonally ice-free conditions: Study
PTI 30 December 2009, 12:58pm ISTText Size:|Topics:arctic
US Geological Survey
WASHINGTON: US Geological Survey (USGS) has warned that the Arctic could face seasonally ice-free conditions and much warmer temperatures in the
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future which may lead to intensified storms and increased winter precipitation.
The USGS scientists have found evidence that the Arctic Ocean and Nordic Seas were too warm to support summer sea ice during the mid-Pliocene period, over three million years ago, when…
Something rotten
Sitaram Yechury
December 15, 2009
First Published: 21:22 IST(15/12/2009)
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The global negotiations on Climate Change at Copenhagen enters its final stage with the three-day Heads of States Summit starting today. Reports so far indicate the unfolding of the Shakespearean dilemma of Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark: “To be or not to be...”
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that began in 1990 has by now established that the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is rapidly approaching…
Clean, free-flowing Ganga by 2020: Govt
PTI 31 December 2009, 03:29pm ISTText Size:|Topics:Govt
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VARANASI: The Centre has expressed confidence that by 2020 the polluted river Ganga would be cleaned and Rs 15,000 crore will be spent on it.
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"The Union Government is confident of getting the holy Ganga river cleaned by 2020. Rs 15,000 crore will be spent for this purpose under the river development fund," Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said here.
The Centre plans to save the river by making it 'nirmal' (clean) and 'aviral…
