The steadily ascending inflation and the resultant rise in prices of items of daily use in this hill station has become a source of serious concern not only to the people belonging to various strata of the society but also to the conservationists and green campaigners.
Decreasing supply
Pointing out that unlike in the plains the need [...]

The world’s wetlands, threatened by development, dehydration and climate change, could release a planet-warming “carbon bomb” if they are destroyed, ecological scientists said on Sunday.
Wetlands contain 771 billion tons of greenhouse gases, one-fifth of all the carbon on Earth and about the same amount of carbon as is now in the atmosphere, the scientists said [...]

With the coming of the Olympic Games, and the problem of air pollution not easing, China has launched traffic restrictions in a last minute ditch to ease the air pollution problem.
Vehicles with even and odd plates will hit the roads only on alternate days, which effectively means just half of the capital’s 3.29 million automobiles [...]

Welcome back. For part 2 of this article, I will be talking about how carbon dioxide is stored. After being captured, the carbon dioxide can be either stored undergound ( geological sequestration ) or in the ocean ( ocean sequestration ).

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With the effects of climate change and ocean acidification caused by greenhouse gases worsening, government bodies worldwide are pressed to find a way to curb with carbon dioxide emissions. But with fossil fuel still proving to be the dominant source of fuel and with the recent G8 agreement to target a 50% reduction in carbon [...]

Launched in 2003, Singapore’s Fusionopolis is making slow but steady progress towards completion. The 30-hectare project has seen the completion of its Phase 1 early 2008 after the deadline was postponed from end-2007; work on Phase 2A started in December 2006. Fusionopolis is part of the 200-hectare development, one-north at Buona Vista. The initiative was [...]

The picture above shows the how widespread the Dead Zone area at the Gulf of Mexico is. Scientist has said that this area could stretch to more than 8,800 square miles this year - about the size of New Jersey, compared with 6,662 square miles in 2006 and nearly double the annual average since 1990 [...]

Here is a brief history of the ongoing Light A Billion Lives (LaBL) campaign. The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) North America has joined hands with TERI India to brighten the lives of the power impoverished across the world through Lighting a [...]