“That average rates of environmental change in the oceans and on land are similar is not such a surprise, but averages deceive” cautions Henry Gholz, program director in the Division of Environmental Biology, National Science Foundation (NSF), which funded the research.

Mankind Needs Far Greater Adaptation To Global Warming

CHANDIGARH: A day after the first semester students foiled administration’s attempt to axe trees at Chandigarh College of Architecture (CCA), UT remained adamant on its part on Tuesday with no official visiting the site for re-inspection, as promised.

Administration disappoints ‘green eyed’ students

VISAKHAPATNAM: Plans are afoot to turn the ‘City of Destiny’ into a ‘Green Visakha’, with the authorities all set to take up a massive plantation drive in and around the port city in the next five years, to check the rising pollution level

Plans afoot to turn Vizag city green

Australia’s parliament on Tuesday passed a landmark carbon tax legislation that will force the top 500 polluting companies to pay A$24 per tonne for carbon emissions from July 1 next year.

The Clean Energy Act, which includes investments in renewable energy sources, would result in the continent country cutting its carbon emissions by 160 million tonnes in 2020 — equivalent to taking 45 million cars off the road, and continuing to cut emissions each year to achieve an 80 per cent reduction over the 2000 levels by 2050. “We will do this by putting a price on pollution, fostering renewable energy technologies, encouraging energy efficiency and creating opportunities to reduce pollution on the land,” Prime Minister Julia Gillard said. “Today, Australia has a price on carbon as the law of our land. This comes after a quarter of a century of scientific warnings, 37 parliamentary inquiries and years of bitter debate and division.”

Australia passes carbon tax law

State-run Coal India Ltd​ (CIL) is staring at a longer delay in the appointment of a chairman to oversee the miner after the coal ministry sought the scrapping of a panel of two candidates for the post and proposed widening the search to include individuals outside the company and the government.

Search for new CIL chief to drag on as ministry wants panel scrapped

BANGALORE: Why is it that toothpaste in India is still sold in glossy paper boxes? Isn’t it known that these boxes are hardly of any use and 99% of them are junked? Criminal wastage of paper, and by extension wood, was the topic of debate at a panel discussion on ‘Extended producer responsibility’ , as part of Bengaluru Recycling Habba 2011 on Monday.

 Eco experts brainstorm on green hazards

Deaths and health problems from floods, drought and other US disasters related to climate change cost an estimated $14 billion over the last decade, researchers said on Monday.

 Health cost of 6 US climate disasters: $14 billion

New Delhi: The US expressed concern over certain Indian policies that it says inhibit investments by foreign firms, keen on collaboration with local companies, in renewable energy and clean technologies.

 US raises concerns about India’s solar tech policies

To ease the coal shortage faced by thermal power plants in the state, APGenco will procure 70 million tonnes of coal in addition to the existing supply of 50 million tonnes from the Singareni Collieries Ltd.

70m tonnes of coal to ease power crisis

Zee News: The global output of heat-trapping carbon dioxide jumped by the biggest amount on record, the U.S. Department of Energy calculated, a sign of how feeble the world’s efforts are at slowing man-made global warming.

The new figures for 2010 mean that levels of greenhouse gases are higher than the worst case scenario outlined by climate experts just four years ago.

 Biggest jump ever seen in global warming gases