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Climate change making food crops less nutritious

Rising carbon dioxide emissions are set to make the world?s staple food crops less nutritious, according to new scientific research, worsening the serious ill health alread...

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Sustainable Development

Unilever to include human rights & livelihood issues in growth blueprint

Unilever, the 49.8-billion-euro fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) corporation, is finally attempting to fill up an unseemly gap in its sustainability stratagem. The Unileve...

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Environment

India drafts policy to cut carbon emissions from deforestation

India, one of the world's largest polluters, has drafted a national policy aimed at reducing its carbon emissions from deforestation as part of a global scheme which financ...

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Environment

Climate change research gets Norwegian aid

Research on climate change and biodiversity in India received a boost on Tuesday with a Rs. 14-crore grant from the Norwegian Embassy to Bangalore-based Ashoka Trust for Re...

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Environment

Extreme wet, dry spells up drought, flood risks in India

In an alarming research, a team of scientists at Stanford University have identified significant changes in the patterns of extreme wet and dry events that are increasing t...

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Sustainable Development

Indian activist Ramesh Agrawal wins 'Green Nobel'

GARE VILLAGE (Andhra Pradesh): The man walked into Ramesh Agrawal’s tiny internet cafe, pulled out a pistol and hissed, “You talk too much.” Then he fired...

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Hollywood

Jack Johnson’s New Live EP Benefits Environmental Education

Jack Johnson has released a new live EP, with all proceeds going to the Kokua Hawaii Foundation to support environmental education in the schools and communities of Hawai&r...

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Sustainable Development

Bring sustainable energy to the developing world

Investment and policies must support cheap, clean energy technologies to cut both poverty and climate changes say Reid Detchon and Richenda Van Leeuwen. More than one-third...

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Environment

6 years on, Maharashtra has no climate-change action plan

Even as rural areas in otherwise drought-hit regions of Maharashtra (as also in neighbouring areas of Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh) struggle to cope with imme...

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Environment

Viral diseases to surge in coming years due to climate change, report says

US scientists have warned India of increased incidence of infectious and vector-borne diseases in coming years due to climate change. According to a report on climate chang...

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