Tropical forests could survive global warming

March 18, 2013

Recent studies published online in ‘Nature Geoscience’ have revealed that some tropical forests may show resilience in the face of global warming. This is because tropical forests are less likely to lose biomass, i.e. plants and plant material in response to greenhouse gas emissions over the world. Though the results suggest that the risk of …

Innovative ways to generate power

March 11, 2013

In today’s era, energy demands are exponentially high and energy resources are depleting rapidly. It’s time to come up using some innovative and brilliant ideas to generate environment friendly and low cost energy without utilizing the already becoming extinct energy resources. The following list is a compilation of some excellent ways to generate power. Play …

Less garbage, safer planet!

February 24, 2013

How often do you have to empty the trash bins around your home or workplace? If plastic cups, tissues and paper plates fill up your bin every few hours, it’s high time you cut down the amount of waste you send off to the landfills. Water Bottles Bottles can be recycled but stopping the bottle …

Time for the worldwide climate summit

February 21, 2013

The Barack Obama government is once again in news. This time for a global cause! On 17th of February, in freezing temperatures and against brutal winds, about 50,000 activists marched from the Washington Monument around the White House to support immediate action to contain climate change due to global warming. It was an event that …

Penguin colony discovered in Antarctica

February 20, 2013

It is not new to us that global warming and the serious and rapid effects of global warming are a constant threat to dainty penguins. Emperor penguins depend on the sea ice that rings the continent of Antarctic, so it’s no surprise that global warming, which is soon melting the ice, is bad news for …

Top five movies on ‘Bad Weather’

February 19, 2013

The Statue of Liberty engulfed by a tidal wave and the world coming to an end.. Nothing matches ‘mother nature gone wild’ on the silver screen, making ‘bad weather’ or ‘global warming’ a hot topic in Hollywood movies. A topic so sensitive yet so thrilling, ‘bad weather’ is often portrayed larger than life with the …

Effects of global warming on health

January 14, 2013

The warnings about global warming have been extremely clear for a long time. We are facing a global climate crisis. Global warming in India and the world is deepening and we are entering a period of consequences. The world is spinning in a vicious cycle of demand and supply, that is; both the causes and …

Potatoes will disappear in a warmer world

January 11, 2013

We keep reading about global warming and the effects it in newspapers and tabloids. The effects of global warming therefore often mention the warming climate and the changing weather situation in many countries and the extinction of many animal species due to it. But if you thought that global warming in India and around is …

Global warming in India, Butterflies face extinction

January 7, 2013

Global warming has hit the entire world but its effects are more evident in some parts of world, of which India is one. We have all been hearing about global warming in India; rains in the deserts of Rajasthan, warmer temperatures in the freezing months of Delhi and devastating cyclones in the south Peninsula. But …

Climate change in northeast India

December 31, 2012

When Jatin Singh, CEO of Skymet, was planning to set up a private company that forecasts weather and provides weather solutions to power, insurance and agro sectors, he knew it won’t be easy as new challenges due to the ever changing global warming patterns are being faced every day. And this is more so in …