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Lessons from Japan What could be done in India?
In Japan, the Earthquake Early Warning system played a crucial role in saving thousands of lives. India is also striving to deploy such a system and forecast earthquakes.
Strategy to control air pollution in India to protect the environment and health
With the rapid urbanisation, motorisation and industrialisation in India, air pollution specially fine particulate matter and air toxins have become a threat to the environment in general and human he...
Working towards saving earth
Dr Shailesh Nayak, Secretary Ministry of Earth Sciences and Chairman, Earth Commission.
Water Security in India
Three aspects are highlighted - trade can make a substantial impact on water security policies, the organisational and financial support systems for community based organisations are still not a part...
Norms Obligations and Climate Negotiations
The developed and developing countries have differed on protocol and regulatory mechanisms of climate negotiations essentially because of varying geophysical specificities and countries’ strategies of...
Caring for the Thar
In the present, the top three environmental issues facing the Thar are water availability, land quality and dust emission. While dwindling water reserves call for urgent attention to water management,...
Extreme Rain Events
An unprecedented rain event on 26-27 July 2005 at Mumbai motivated several research programmes on point-and-area-averaged extreme rainfalls to understand the association between atmospheric circulatio...
Stories of Change are Powerful
Creative Climate is a project that hopes to build a huge living archive of experiences and ideas that respond to a host of environmental issues and challenges being faced by people around the world.
Coping with Global Change What we can certainly do
There appears to be a consensus now among climate scientists that man has significantly altered his environment by indiscriminate burning of fossil fuels; and this anthropogenic effect on climate has...
Anthropocene Security Climate Change and the Southern Polar Region
There is a need to emphatically acknowledge the Antarctic as a ‘global knowledge commons’ and put into place a new profile of Asia in relation to the Antarctic. The challenge is to transform the conte...