As the world debates on measures to counter global warming, two young school students who recently won the title of "Indian Climate Champion" are all set to embark on an arctic voyage to study more about climate change.
'A lack of agreement at Copenhagen may not be suicidal for the US,' he said, 'but for a country like India, it is absolutely critical to have an agreement at Copenhagen,' says Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh.
Avid sky watchers had a good time watching a celestial show, the lunar eclipse, which took place in the wee hours of Sunday. The earth's shadow swept past the moon turning a yellow shining full moon into a dim red one, and finally blackening it out of view.The awesome spectacle of the moon vanishing totally was visible all over the country, including New Delhi.
A partial solar eclipse will be seen in India on Friday while the north-eastern parts of the country will see quite a large fraction of the disc of the Sun, eclipsed by the Moon.
It sure looks like it because his latest effort, The Last Airbender is not that entertaining.
Tata Steel, the world's sixth-largest steel maker, is looking to acquire Brazilian iron ore assets of the United Kingdom-based London Mining, which will help ensure raw material supply for its Anglo-Dutch subsidiary, Corus. The valuation of the asset is yet to be completed, but analysts said that it would be in the range of $2 billion.
Scientists have warned that the North Pole might be free of ice before the end of this year, turning into a vast expanse of water. Arctic scientists are preparing for this grim possibility after seeing a number of factors that have led to most of the Arctic ice being thin and vulnerable, as it enters its summer melting season. The extent of the ice is only half the picture, with satellite images showing that most of the Arctic ice at the moment is thin, young ice.
Cairn India, which is developing the oilfields in Rajasthan discovered by its parent Cairn Energy in 2004, has started preliminary work on the pipeline to bring the oil to market, its chief executive said on Monday.
Cairn India, the oil company 69 per cent owned by FTSE 100 listed Cairn Energy, is raising $625m from a private placement of shares to two investors, one of them Petronas, Malaysia's national oil company. The money will be used to invest in Cairn India, including the development of its large Rajasthan oil fields, for which cost estimates have been rising.
He said the melting glaciers could cause a rise in sea levels which could collapse Greenland and Antarctic ice-sheets. This in turn, he said, could have a disastrous effect on countries like Mauritius and Bangladesh.
IAF Wing Commanders Rahul Monga and Anil Kumar are circling the globe.
Public shareholders of Cairn India will lose out on a whopping Rs 3,570 crore (Rs 35.7 billion) to the promoters who would be only beneficiary of a non-compete fees to be paid by its suitor, London-listed Vedanta group.
The warming of Earth and increases in sea level would continue for centuries even if greenhouse gas concentrations were to be stabilized, says the summary of a UN report leaked to the media.
Global cooling - though never widely supported - is a theory postulating an overwhelming cooling of the Earth which could involve glaciations.
Monga said the most difficult stretches they hoped to come across will be the icy wastelands of Siberia, Iceland and Greenland.
A Mahavir Swami deity was installed as well, to include the Jain community in the area, the spokespersons said.
In an interview with Suman Guha Mozumder, Union Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh says a little less superiority and a little more humility on the part of India will serve us very well in the future.
Countires across the globe celebrate World Environment Day on June 5. And the theme this year is 'Melting Ice a Hot Topic.'
In India, there is a perception that the current ecological disaster is a responsibility of the developed world. If we want to play in the big league we must stop seeing ecological solutions as impositions, say Vikram Sood and Nandita Sood-Perret.
In the heart of India's Silicon Valley, Bruno Maddox finds a city transformed by globalisation, dreaming of the future.
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