Development activities, human settlements narrowing pathways

Most of the elephant migratory corridors in the State are under threat, experts have found, even as the High Court’s June deadline for the government to submit a report on man-elephant conflict in Hassan and Kodagu is fast approaching.

The fund will go to joint research and development in solar energy, advanced biofuels and building energy efficiency
Hyderabad, May 9:

The Union Ministry of Science and Technology has selected three consortia that will receive a grant of Rs 125 crore from the Centre. The funding will be over five years, under the Indo-US Joint Clean Energy Research and Development Centre.

The Ministry of Science and Technology has selected three consortia that will receive a grant of Rs 125 crore from the Centre.

The funding will be over five years, under the Indo-US Joint Clean Energy Research and Development Centre.

When Dr N H Ravindranath, a senior scientist from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, addressed Himachal Pradesh’s top bureaucrats and policy makers here a couple of years ago, his warnings about the adverse impact of climate change in the hills, especially the farming sectors, had left many stunned. Himachal is witnessing his predictions coming almost true at least for its apple crop — an economy of Rs 2,200 crore, almost 87 per cent of the state’s total fruit production.

High-rise buildings and mismanagement of solid waste in the city are two factors adding to greenhouse gases, increasing the local temperature and pollution in the city. Experts who presented different aspects of urban planning and creating low carbon cities at the conference on Low Carbon Cities at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) recently emphasised that future cities must lower their carbon footprint if their citizens are to lead healthy lives.

In a move that could accelerate the process of reducing the carbon footprint, IISc Bangalore has joined GreenTouch.

GreenTouch is a consortium of technology companies (like Alcatel Lucent), non-governmental researchers and academics that focus on communication and data networks, which form the backbone of the Internet. Typically, telecom and cell tower infrastructure companies emit a lot of carbons and are looking at ways to reduce it.

99,850 Hectares Of Green Cover Eroded Between ’07 & ’09: IISc Study. Going by the latest report on deforestation in India, we have lost forest area equivalent to more than half of New Delhi or as big as a tier two city between 2007 and 2009 alone. The study conducted by a team of forestry researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore for “Current Science” journal says that massive deforestation has been masked by Forest Survey of India’s afforestation data.

The Union Ministry of Science and Technology today announced the selections for three consortia projects under the Indo-US Joint Clean Energy Research and Development Center (JCERDC).

The JCERDC is being established under an agreement signed between the Governments of India and the United States of America which commits an amount of Rs 125 crore ($25 million) in funding over five years to institutions in India and the US for taking up collaborative research in the fields of advanced bio-fuels, energy efficiency in buildings and solar energy.