| MICROBIAL FUEL CELLS: Can a microbe make electricity from bad wine?? |
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| A team of scientists in India demonstrates that a microbe can act as a biocatalyst in a microbial fuel cell and produce electricity. An observation that may bring a breakthrough in green technology... |
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| Copenhagen Climate Change Conference ends with non-legally binding agreement |
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| The much expected climate change conference in Copenhagen ended with a non-legally binding agreement which the parties said “politically important”. |
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| Negotiations toward a new global climate change |
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(Climate Change Conference Poznan, Poland, 1-12 December 2008)
Poznan, Poland is on limelight from 1st to 12th December. Stage has been setup for the United Nations climate change conference here. The two-weekmeeting, the fourteenth conference of the 192 Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on climate change (UNFCCC) and the fourth meetingof the 183 Parties to the Kyoto Protocol, is the half-way mark in the negotiations on an motivated and successful international climate change deal. |
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| WAKE UP TO CLIMATE CHANGE! |
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By Santhi Prabha
So what is the big deal? Shall we have to fret about a possible mount of a few insignificant degrees in the earth’s average surface temperature? Is it like the change we often experience between cool morn and hot noon or between March and June or even between yesterday and today? Mind! We are dealing not with usual swing in local weather but the factual deal over millennia-the projected Global Climate Change!!!. Time has brought the issue out from the corner science columns of inner pages of daily broadsheets world wide and shrieked out for consideration. Something among the mass have been set in motion and now the war has begun in right earnest. Santhi Prabha writes-
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| Yet another meet: Promises are on the high!! |
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| The G-8 nations’ (group of eight leading industrial nations) meet in Toyako, northern Japan, is reported to have endorsed the idea of cutting global emissions by at least 50 percent by 2050. It is not expected that the present G-8 meet will come up with any workable solution to cut the greenhouse gases. |
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| Carbondioxide Catcher: New Hope in Climate Change? |
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Anything which gives a hope to reduce greenhouse gases is exciting!. New inventions and technologies are awaited to tackle the problem of growing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. The recent claim on carbondioxide catcher using ion exchange resins, by a group of scientists is probably in the right direction. |
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| “Low Emission Future” selected as Top Paper in ES&T |
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The publication of Glen Peters (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) and coauthors in the journal, Environmental Science and Technology (ES&T) has been identified as the top paper of the journal in 2007. |
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| Climate change may affect millions: WHO |
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The World Health Organization warned that millions of people may face poverty, disease, hunger, and other atrocities due to climate change. The adverse effect is as a result of rising temperatures and changing rainfall and the worst sufferers will be from poor countries |
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| Intensive scientific approach needed to control Chikungunya in Kerala: Experts |
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 A seminar and interactive session organized by CEET in Kottayam, Kerala, on August 18, 2007, attended by scientists, doctors, environmentalists, activists and students, analyzed various aspects of the recent outbreak of chikungunya in Kerala, the southern state of India, which created lot of panic among the inhabitants. Kerala, which is a state known for its great achievements in the field of health and education in India, has been literally bewildered with the outbreak of viral diseases such as chikungunya and dengue since June 2007, the beginning of the Monsoon season. The outbreak was first observed in two Central Travancore districts, Kottayam and Pathanamthittah, both enriched with rubber plantation. Chickungunya is mainly transmitted by ades mosquito, and hence the control can be achieved only by controlling these mosquitoes. |
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| G8 Summit: Serious thinking, no action!! |
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The G8 summit in Heiligendamm, Germany, of the 8 richest nations and 5 developing countries, ended with only promises but no definite actions to cut down the Green House Gases (GHGs). Their joint statement released on June 8, 2007, reaffirmed their commitment to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and its objectives of mitigating and adapting to climate change. “The objectives will be met in accordance with our common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities" statement says. |
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| Southwestern North America Region will dry in the 21st century? |
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| Recent findings by Seager et al. in Science Magazine reports a high chance of dry out of the Southwestern North America region in the 21st century. Projections of anthropogenic climate change conducted by nineteen different climate modelling groups around the world, using different climate models, show widespread agreement that Southwestern North America - and the subtropics in general - are on a trajectory to a climate even more arid than now. More>> |
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| Are we prepared to take up the “near future disasture”? |
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| IPCC’s recent predictions on the elivation of global temperature and the rise in the sea level in this century gives us only little time to make the necessary precautions. How far we are prepared to take up this challenge?. C.T. Aravindakumar writes. |
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