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Integrated Coastal and Marine Area Management
The ICMAM Programme ICMAM is entrusted with the development of expertise in specialised areas relating to adoption of the concept of integrated coastal zone management to analyse problems prevalent a...
Afghanistan 2009
The strategic region of Afghanistan is again been subjected to The Great Game, which has been played for centuries by the western powers on one side and Russians in their various political manifestati...
The consumption explosion
Plotting the rich-poor divide on a map of environmental responsibility. Climate change poses the challenge of finding just and politically acceptable ways of defusing the consumption bomb. Environme...
Narkanda Himachal Pradesh
Narkanda in summer offers a spectacular view of the snow capped Himalayas, apart from offering a delectable spread of fruits. The apple boughs in Thanedar, laden with green apples, adorn every hedge i...
Fresh Water Status and Management
97 per cent of the total water on earth is saline with only 3 per cent available as fresh water. About 77 per cent of this fresh water is locked up in glaciers and permanent snow and 11 per cent is co...
Convention on Biological Diversity
India has so far documented over 91,200 species of animals and 45,500 species of plants in its 10 biogeographic regions. The varied edaphic, climatic and topographic conditions and years of geological...
Rains, Food and Climate Change
Global warming, progressive gradual rise of the earth’s surface temperature, is at present being held responsible for changes in global climate patterns. Increase in atmospheric temperature affects va...
Excerpts from Impact of Global Climate Change on Agriculture and Allied Sectors in India Ministry of Agriculture 2009.
Investigating Monsoon 2009
Dr Ajit Tyagi, Director General, Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) in his interaction with the Editor, spoke of unfavourable energetics fuelled by the Aila in eastern India coupled with the block...
Monsoon Failures and Rainwater Harvesting
Historical societal adaptations to climate fluctuations may provide insights into potential responses of modern societies to future climate change that has a bearing on water resources, food productio...
Rainfall Variability in India
The analysis of changes in the moisture regions over the past hundred years indicate a net effect of drier all India moisture conditions in the recent decades.