The Environment Ministry was hit by controversies in the year gone by which it saw clearances for two big ticket projects — POSCO and Lavasa — and exit of Jairam Ramesh as the green minister.
Involve students to spread awareness about climate change: Guv – 5 January 2012, IBN News
Jammu and Kashmir Governor N N Vohra today stressed on the need to involve students and NGOs to generate greater awareness about the impact of climate change. The Governor was speaking after an interaction with a student, who had participated at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change held at Durban in South Africa from November 28 to December 9.
Involve students to spread awareness about climate change: Guv
After hitting decade’s low, mercury on the rise again – 4 January 2012, Mid Day
Since recording 11.4 C as the lowest temperature on December 27, the mercury now hovers at 21 , and may go up by another two, weathermen predict.
Chennai getting warmer this winter – 4 January 2012, The Times of India
This is the beginning of winter in the city, says the weatherman but the temperature in Chennai has been rising after cyclone Thane struck the state coast last week. And it is expected to get hotter. Meteorologists describe this as “seemingly hotter” phenomena, especially after the heavy wind and rains of last week.
Pachauri meets Mamata at writers’ – 3 January 2012, The Times of India
The Energy & Resources Institute (TERI) headed by RK Pachauri, who also heads the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC), will soon submit its report to the Mamata Banerjee government on the impact of climate change on Bengal’s coastal and hilly areas. Pachauri met the chief minister at Writers’ Builidings on Monday to discuss scope of work in Bengal.
IIT-B centre to focus on challenges of climate change – 3 January 2012, The Indian Express
‘Frog song’ may help understand climate change – 3 January 2012, Times of India
If not kissing the frog, at least appreciating their ‘croak’ may lead to some headway in to climate research . For the first time frog song is being monitored using automated sound recorders by Indian scientists to track the impact of climate change on amphibians in the forests of southern Western Ghats. The methodology for tracking their call has recently been standardized by researchers.
NZ Co LanzaTech to help IOC, JSPL set up bio jet fuel plant – 2 January 2012, The Economic Times
The New Zealand-based renewable energy company LanzaTech is in talks with its partners here – IndianOil and Jindal Steel & Power – to help them set up plant to produce commercial bio jet fuel from ethanol, a top company official has said. As a first step, LanzaTech will open an office in the country in the first half of 2012 as part of its plan to expand its operations here, LanzaTech vice-president for business development for Asia Pacific Prabhakar Nair said.
Prime Minister to inaugurate Science Congress in Bhubaneswar – 2 January 2012, Indian Express
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will inaugurate the 99th Indian Science Congress here on Tuesday, during which scientists will deliberate issues such as climate change, food security, clean energy and space technology.
Ratnagiri, Sindhudurg regions seriously impacted by mining, power projects – 1 January 2012, The Hindu
The Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel (WGEEP) has called for a “careful cumulative impact analysis of various development activities” in the plains and coastal regions of Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg districts of Maharashtra. It has observed that the “entire region has been seriously impacted, both environmentally and socially, by a number of mining, power projects, and polluting industries.”
The Madhav Gadgil-led panel has accused the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) of “suppressing” the Zoning Atlases for Siting of Industries (ZASI), “apparently under unfair pressure.”
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