Carbon Emissions Rise 3.2% in 2011 – Despite Accords
UXBRIDGE, Canada, May 25, 2012 (IPS) – Climate-heating carbon emissions set a record high in 2011, in a 3.2 percent increase over the previous year, the International Energy Agency reported this week....
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As Grain Piles Up, India’s Poor Still Go Hungry
RANWAN, India — In this north Indian village, workers recently dismantled stacks of burned and mildewed rice while flies swarmed nearby over spoiled wheat. Local residents said the rice crop had been...
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In India, agriculture’s Green Revolution dries up
LUDHIANA, India — Propping a bare foot on a circle of bricks, Surjit Singh stroked his white beard and recalled how water once flowed from his well. It was decades ago, when hybrid wheat seeds arrived...
View ArticleDid Drought Cause India’s Power Outage?
What caused the vast power grid failure that roiled India this week? Precise causes remain unknown, but one emerging explanation points a finger at the nation’s severe drought. Here’s the New York...
View ArticleCarbon Credits Gone Awry Raise Output of HCFC-23
RANJIT NAGAR, India — When the United Nations wanted to help slow climate change, it established what seemed a sensible system. Greenhouse gases were rated based on their power to warm the atmosphere....
View ArticlePopulation bulge tests India’s growth aspirations
NEW DELHI (AP) — Vijay Kumar clutched a worn plastic folder containing his high school diploma and his nursing aide certificate as he joined a long queue at an employment exchange in a New Delhi...
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Apple growing moves uphill in India’s warming Himalaya region
KINNAUR, India — At a small tea shop in Asrang, in the upper reaches of mountainous Himachal Pradesh, three farmers sit discussing their future. They fear that heavy rains that began in May could ruin...
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TV as Birth Control
How to defuse the population bomb: Provide people with a steady diet of soap operas and reality TV shows that depict modern, urban lifestyles. New research makes a compelling case that when TV...
View ArticleCritical worldwide shortages could lead to water wars
Get ready for the water wars. Most of the world’s population takes water for granted, just like air — two life-sustaining substances. After all, the human body is nearly two-thirds water. But a...
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