MUMBAI: India, which has been fortunate to have largely stable monsoon for the last 140 years, may find the weather behaving erratically due to global warming with persistent drought in 60-70 years, a top meteorologist warned today.
The Government’s efforts to push up farm growth might require some reorientation laying emphasis on arid farming and development [...]
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India may enter a drought state in 60-70 years
Posted in Environment, India Facts, tagged Drought, Ecology, Environment, GDP, Globalization, Hindutva, India on April 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
150 million rich produced 4.5 times more carbon emissions than the 800 million poor Indians
Posted in Business India, Environment, Health, Human Rights, India Facts, Poverty on November 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Greenpeace calls for pollution tax on India’s 150 million rich
France24.com, 13 Nov 2007
India’s wealthy consumers, who make up a fraction of its 1.1 billion population, are fuelling the country’s greenhouse gas emissions and should be required to pay extra tax, an environmental watchdog said on Tuesday.
Some 150 million Indians, splurging on luxury goods and air [...]
Access to Water– A Dream?: Girish Mishra
Posted in Environment, Poverty, tagged diarrohoea, Environment, India, Sanitation, school, technology, UNDP, Water on November 22, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
November 2006
It was not long ago that Portuguese novelist and Nobel laureate, José Saramago questioned the rationale of spending millions of dollars on missions to find out whether there was water on the moon when billions of people on the earth had no access to water for drinking, sanitation and irrigation. His stand is fully [...]
Millions breathe cancer-causing air in India: report
Posted in Environment, Health, India Facts, tagged Enviroment, Green Gas, Health, India, Pollution on June 4, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
MUMBAI (Reuters) – Millions in India breathe air loaded with cancer-causing chemicals and toxic gases present at levels that are thousands of times higher than permissible limits, an independent report said on Saturday.
India, one of the most polluted countries in the world, does not even have a standard for many harmful chemicals and gases, and [...]
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