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The Institute for Cultural Research and Action (ICRA) and the Organic Farming Association of India (OFAI) conducted a seminar on “Natural Farming in a Globalised Warming World” at the Institution of Agricultural Technologist here on Sunday. Raju Titus, a pioneer in the field of natural farming from Hoshangabad, Madhya Pradesh, who addressed the gathering, said, [...]
The eruption in April of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland cleared the skies over Europe in the largest air traffic shut-down since World War II. As the sound of planes was replaced by birds, and people across the continent frantically rearranged their travel plans, air traffic managers struggled to respond to a crisis they had [...]
Lured by high return, an increasing number of farmers in the buffer zone areas of Sunsari are taking to sunflower farming. More than 100 farmers at Aamduwa, Haripur, Laukahi, Madhuvan and other village development committees are engaged into commercial sunflower farming. Charmed by decent productivity of sunflower in several parts of the neighbouring country, India, [...]
A new, less selective approach to commercial fishing is needed to ensure the ongoing productivity of marine ecosystems and to maintain biodiversity, according to a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. The paper, ‘Ecosystem-based fisheries management requires a change to the selective fishing philosophy’, was [...]
Trees from the Harvard Forest to the Amazon rainforest are experiencing changing climactic conditions, with rising temperatures potentially making tropical trees a significant source of carbon dioxide. Rising global temperatures could cause the vast Amazonian rainforest — sometimes viewed as the lungs of the Earth — to give off significant carbon dioxide, worsening the climate-changing [...]
Water resources minister Bijendra Prasad Yadav on Friday asked scientists and environmentalists to quantify the impact of global warming and climate change. “It appears to me that there is confusion over the issue. The Golghar was made in 1857 after a severe drought. That means we have had severe droughts even when there was no [...]
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