Wednesday, December 14th, 2011
Experts warn rapid depletion of Bangladesh’s underground water table could jeopardize food and water security for millions throughout the country and also endanger the biodiversity of one of the world’s largest mangrove forests within the next two...
Wednesday, December 14th, 2011
Young Ecologists Talk and Interact (YETI), the largest student-organised academic conference on ecology and conservation, brought together over 300 students and researchers of ecology on a single platform at IIT-Guwahati here on Tuesday for a three-day-long deliberations...
Wednesday, December 14th, 2011
Downscaled models and better evidence about what the large models are saying about future threats for these regions are drastically needed. It is also essential to mainstream the authoritative collection of weather station data, to make it...
Wednesday, December 14th, 2011
The historic 9.0 earthquake and subsequent tsunami that hit Japan back in March may have fallen out of the public news cycle, but the massive rebuilding efforts continue. Now Google has launched a Web site dedicated to...
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
A virtual tour via Street View profoundly illustrates how much these natural disasters have transformed these communities. If you start inland and venture out toward the coast, you’ll see the idyllic countryside change dramatically, becoming cluttered with...
Monday, December 12th, 2011
The Survey of India is undertaking the surveying of the country's entire 7,500 km coastline. The hazard mapping effort will identify low-lying areas affected by high tides and coastal erosion, and rising sea levels. The Integrated Coastal...
Monday, December 12th, 2011
Even as representatives from nearly 200 countries celebrated the last-minute compromise they fashioned at U.N. climate talks Sunday in Durban, South Africa, it became clear that its real-world outcome will be largely determined in Asia, rather than...
Monday, December 12th, 2011
Dissatisfied with the limitations of the base map provided by the National Informatics Centre (NIC), the civic body has decided to prepare its own digital base map of the city, on which it plans to plot all...
Monday, December 12th, 2011
Japan successfully put a spy satellite into orbit on Monday and expects to complete its network of intelligence-gathering satellites with another launch next year. Japan’s space agency, JAXA, said the launch from the remote southern island of...
