Barely a week ago, in a low-lying tract of southern Georgia’s pine belt, a half-dozen workers planted row upon row of twig-like poplar trees. These weren’t just any trees, though: Some of the seedlings being nestled into the soggy soil had been genetically engineered to grow wood at turbocharged rates while slurping up carbon dioxide […]
LOS ANGELES: Heavy snow and rain pounded California and other parts of the West on Friday in the nation’s latest winter storm, while tens of thousands of people in Michigan suffered in freezing temperatures days after one of the worst ice storms in decades caused widespread power outages.Days of winter storms blacked out nearly 1 […]
GUWAHATI: Clouds float into their homes like everyday guests and the rain, when it pours, can be unceasing. But voters in arguably the world’s wettest belt, Cherrapunji-Mawsynram in poll-bound Meghalaya, are left demanding from their elected representatives the one thing you would expect them to be never short of: drinking water.In peak monsoon, it can […]
NEW DELHI: In what could be one of the effective ways to deal with the issue of air pollution linked to stubble burning, all coal based thermal power plants located in Delhi-NCR and adjoining area will have to mandatorily use a minimum 5% blend of pellets made of crop residue with coal annually. Environment ministry […]
SCOTTSDALE: An Arizona aquarium is celebrating the hatching of three endangered African penguin chicks, saying the tiny additions are genetically valuable as zoos and aquariums around the world work to ensure the species’ survival through breeding programs and conservation efforts. Officials at OdySea Aquarium made the announcement Friday, posting video of the fuzzy birds on […]
WASHINGTON: Antarctic sea ice extent has been reported to have broken its last year record low, and has also recorded it sooner than when it did last year, according to a statement by the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC).On February 13, 2023, Antarctic sea ice extent fell to 1.91 million square kilometers, it […]
WASHINGTON: Scientists have identified 27 global warming accelerators known as amplifying feedback loops, including some that the researchers said may not be fully accounted for in climate models.Scientists said that the findings added urgency to the need to respond to the climate crisis.In climate science, amplifying feedback loops are situations where a climate-caused alteration can […]
RENO: Don’t feed the bears!Wildlife biologists and forest rangers have preached the mantra for nearly a century at national parks like Yellowstone and Yosemite, and for decades in areas where urban development increasingly invaded native wildlife habitat. But don’t feed the birds? That may be a different story – at least for one bird species […]
NEW DELHI: The Centre on Tuesday increased the budgetary allocation for the Union Environment Ministry from the last fiscal by 5.6 per cent but shrunk the allocation to control pollution by Rs 10 crore.The government, however, increased the Budget for National Mission for Green India from Rs 290 crore in the last financial year to […]
SAO PAULO: German development minister Svenja Schulze announced Monday that her government will make 204 million euros ($222 million) available for environmental policies in Brazil.Of this total, $38 million is a donation to the Amazon Fund, Schulze told reporters in capital Brasilia. It is the most important international cooperation effort to preserve the Amazon rainforest, […]
