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Indian flash floods kill 170, hundreds of people still missing
Posted on 12 Aug, 2010 03:23 PM
"So far, we have recovered 170 bodies, 140 of whom have been identified," said an officer in Leh's police control room, adding that up to 300 people were still unaccounted for.
Aid workers also estimate that 10 to 12 villages remain inaccessible due collapsed bridges and blocked roads where landslides deposited boulders and mud up to 15 feet high (4 metres).
Using GIS in Water Quality
Posted on 18 Sep, 2009 10:34 AMUsing GIS in Water Quality: The website contains several research papers on using GIS in Water Quality.
The how, what, when of climate change: Background and basics
Posted on 29 Aug, 2009 02:09 PMClimate Change is a significant change in temperature, wind patterns and precipitation that occurs over a long period of time. Some of these changes occur in cycles over decades, hundreds, thousands and millions of years; some could be random occurrences.
Government of India's national action plan on climate change (NAPCC)
Posted on 29 Aug, 2009 12:08 PMThis would lead to a drastic increase in GHG emissions. There is the need to make a choice for a low-carbon path, even if there is no mandated reduction in GHG emissions.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: Constituents, working groups and compilation of resources relating to the IPCC
Posted on 29 Aug, 2009 10:58 AMWhen climate change was first posited as "real" people all over the world realized that this issue encompasses the inter linkage of several other issues. The scope and magnitude of the consequences of climate change are also very far reaching.
The Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice: A subsidiary body to the UNFCCC
Posted on 29 Aug, 2009 10:37 AMSome of the issues the SBSTA is currently dealing with are land use, land-use change and forestry, adaptation, mitigation, research, systematic observation and bunker fuels.
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
Posted on 29 Aug, 2009 09:58 AMOver a decade ago, most countries joined an international treaty – the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) – to begin to consider what can be done to reduce global warming and to cope with whatever temperature increases are inevitable.
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change COP-1: The Berlin Mandate
Posted on 28 Aug, 2009 05:53 PMThe goal for COP1 was therefore set at adoption of legally binding obligations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. It was expected that 15 years down the line, the larger, newly industrializing countries would together be among the largest emitters of greenhouse gas emissions.
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change: The Berlin Mandate
Posted on 28 Aug, 2009 05:43 PMThe United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was opened for signature at the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) conference known as the Earth Summit.
Films & video resources relating to the Kyoto Protocol
Posted on 28 Aug, 2009 05:36 PMAfter Kyoto
27 Minutes: English