CLIMATE CHANGE
Boosting ‘nitrogen use efficiency’ in rice
Crops take only about 30 per cent of the nitrogen fertilizer added and the rest gets washed away to cause… Read More
Solar Panels from Food Waste Win Sustainability Award
Engineering student Carvey Ehren Maigue has been named the James Dyson Awards first-ever global sustainability winner for his AuReus system, in which… Read More
Obama Disapproves of the American Lifestyle
Barack Hussein Obama, the 44th President of the United States, is not pleased with the American people, who twice elected him… Read More
Climate Change and Cities: IRADe Develops Critical Assessment Framework
In India most of the cities are vulnerable to the climate-induced natural hazards. As per the National Disaster Management Authority… Read More
Climate-Resilient Crop Varieties: The ‘Seeds for Needs’ Approach
Climate change is threatening the environment, glaciers and crops; a warming climate threatens crop diversity. It is important to maintain… Read More
Arctic Sea Ice is Melting Faster than Ever: NCPOR Study
A recent study by the National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research (NCPOR), Goa, India, has pointed out that the… Read More
Global Response Mechanism for the Climate Crisis Needed
COVID-19 has been called “climate change at warp speed”. As the consequences of climate change are expected to be more… Read More
India to Face More Extreme Weather Events
On the basis of mathematical modelling it is understood that India is expecting a temperature change of 2° C by… Read More
Phytoplankton Blooms in Southern Ocean Impact Climate Change
Phytoplankton is the microscopic single-celled photosynthetic organism that drifts and blooms in the top layer of the world’s oceans forming… Read More
Food Security: Role of Climate SMART Rice in Bangladesh
The world-wide climate action initiative ‘Global Commission on Adaptation (GCA)’, in its high profile meeting held at Dhaka, has identified… Read More