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India: Global warming to dry up rivers, inundate cities
Posted by Deccan Chronicle: None Given on June 20th, 2013
Deccan Chronicle: India’s summer monsoon will become highly unpredictable if the world’s average temperature rises by 2ºC in the next two-three decades, a scientific report commissioned by the World Bank says.
The report released in the national capital on Wednesday focuses on the likely impacts of warming between 2ºC and 4ºC on agricultural production, water resources, coastal ecosystems and cities across South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and South East Asia.
The report titled Turn Down the Heat: Climate Extremes,...
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Forests to change irreversibly
Posted by Deccan Chronicle: None Given on April 29th, 2011
Deccan Chronicle: Experts meeting under the National Mission for a Green India warn that ten years down the line India’s key forests, including the Himalayas, western ghats and central India could alter irreversibly.
Making this dire warning was Dr Ravindranath, a professor at the Centre for Sustainable Technologies at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. He emphasised that an expected 2ºC increase in temperature due to climate change would result in a major shift from the present “forest type as we know...
India: Chhattisgarh climate change can hit Chennai
Posted by Deccan Chronicle: None Given on February 19th, 2011
Deccan Chronicle: With all-powerful coal lobby in the country almost getting permission to go for “phased mining” of lakhs of hectares of forest areas in Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand, environmentalists have sounded alarm bells about an impending ecological disaster.
“India in general and Tamil Nadu in particular will see the mercury crossing all previous records and rains coming to naught. If Chhattisgarh or Jharkhand sneeze, Tamil Nadu will catch a cold,” said Dr. Nanditha Krishna, noted environmentalist and director,...
Successive calamities in AP leave trail of despair
Posted by Deccan Chronicle: None Given on December 31st, 2010
Deccan Chronicle: For the first time the state was hit by four major calamities in a single year. In 2010, two successive cyclones, Laila and Jal, a depression and subsequent heavy rainfall left a trail of death and destruction of property and crops.
A total of 171 persons died -- 22 during Cyclone Laila, 65 during the Southwest monsoon, 63 during Cyclone Jal and 21 due to the depression, heavy rainfall and floods from May to December this year. After the rains, an unprecedented cold wave swept across the state,...