climate change

Is Swine Flu Linked to Global Warming?

by Ishrath May 29, 2009
A Couple from Mexico Convey the Physical and Mental Strain of the Swine Flu Epidemic - Pix by National Geographic

Environmentalists and the healthcare community continue to question if global warming has caused, apart from the other deadly disease, swine flu to occur. Here is our analysis.

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Sunderbans biosphere reserve bears brunt of climate change phenomenon

by Prakash Rangarajan May 28, 2009
Sunderbans - Credits - indiannetzone.com

The world’s largest mangrove forest Sunderbans took a major hit, consequence of being in the eye of cyclone Aila that caused havoc in parts of West Bengal and Bangladesh.

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An Inconvenient Truth – Yes, Moral Climes need to change too

by Prakash Rangarajan May 27, 2009

It is exactly 3 years ago that Al Gore’s documentary that laid bare complex environmental in simple layman’s terms was released. A thousand and odd days later it still holds center stage as the definitive reference for Global Warming and Climate Change. As persuasive as can be, the movie enlightens why fighting global warming is more of a moral imperative than a political issue. Well, the good news is that there is still time to making a difference. Catch a snapshot of this must watch movie..

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The Amazon debate rolls on

by Prakash Rangarajan December 12, 2007
Logging is rampant in the Amazon Forests

It’s a cliche really, the impact of the state of the Amazon forest on mother earth’s climatic horoscope. Yet the lengths to which governments go to put the burning issue under the mat defies logic of any degree.

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Global Warming – A pressing reality – Part 1

by Ganesh Mahadevan November 25, 2007
Flooding due to Global Warming

Melting glaciers in Greenland. Heat wave in Europe. Hurricane Katrina destroys New Orleans. Wildfire in California. Ice shelf breaks in Antartica. Somebody else’s problems we think, a passing glance at the news and then we concentrate on more important things

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Global Warming Impact Report on Asia released

by Prakash Rangarajan November 21, 2007

Its time the Asian disporia woke up to the Global Warming phenomenon. Stark reality of economic slowdown, development meltdown, production paucity stares the contintent which accounts for more than 60 percent of the world population as a recent report prepared by The Working Group on Climate Change and Development tellingly postulates.

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