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New Green Pyre To Cool Planet While Burning The Dead Of India New Delhi (AFP) June 11, 2007 
The average Indian may go through an entire life without contributing a huge amount to the world's production of greenhouse gases, but in death his carbon footprint jumps. Alarmed by the fuel-intensive nature of the funeral rites of Hindus who practice open-air cremation using firewood, an environmental group in New Delhi is promoting a new, more eco-friendly pyre.
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Big Blue Goes Big Green In India
Bangalore (AFP) Jun 08, 2007IBM said Friday it would supply technology to its Indian data-centre clients that will help them reduce energy costs, which make up almost half their total expense. IBM Global Financing, a unit of the technology giant, will provide clients with loans on easy terms so they can fund the hardware, software and services needed to build energy-efficient data centres, the company said in a statement.< ... more Kalam Calls For Development Of Satellite Systems For Entire Humanity 
Hassan, India (ANI) Jun 11, 2007President Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam on Friday said that the satellite systems should be developed for the advancement of the entire humanity. He said this while dedicating the country's latest communication satellite, INSAT- 4B to the nation at the Indian Space Research Organisation's Master Control Facility at Hassan in Karnataka. The satellite was successfully launched from the spaceport at Kourou ... more Azerbaijani Radar A Looming Presence For Nervous Inhabitants 
Gabala, Azerbaijan (AFP) Jun 08, 2007For the people who live in its shadow, the towering Gabala radar station in Azerbaijan is more than just a bargaining chip in US-Russian wrangles over missile defence. A product of the Cold War, the station was originally used to monitor US military activity around the Indian Ocean and continues to be operated by Russia. On Thursday it was thrust into the spotlight when Russian President V ... more India To Get Revamped Aircraft Carrier From Russia 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jun 11, 2007In early May, an Indian naval delegation headed by Vice Admiral Birinder Singh Randhawa, Controller of Warship Production and Acquisition at the Integrated Headquarters, Ministry of Defense (Navy), visited Severodvinsk, a major submarine construction centre in the Arkhangelsk Region, northern Russia. In spite of cold temperatures, piercing winds and snowfalls, the visit proved very fruitfu ... more Signet Solar Unveils Plans For Thin-Film Solar Module Manufacturing In India 
Palo Alto CA (SPX) Jun 11, 2007Signet Solar announced plans to establish significant thin-film solar module manufacturing capabilities in India. Signet Solar's India announcement follows plans unveiled last month for a manufacturing and development plant in Dresden, Germany. Signet Solar is a global company founded to design, develop and manufacture large area, low cost, thin-film silicon solar photovoltaic (PV) modules. ... more |
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New Delhi (AFP) Jun 04, 2007India said Monday that it would not agree to any commitments to cut greenhouse gas emissions under growing international pressure, and instead pressed for greater collaboration on clean technologies. New Delhi has already said it would reject such calls at this week's Group of Eight summit, where climate change will be a key topic, because stricter limits would slow ... more INSAT-4CR To Be Launched In September 
Bangalore, India (SPX) Jun 04, 2007The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is scheduled to launch its communication satellite INSAT- 4CR as a replacement to INSAT-4C which was reduced to debris during its unsuccessful launch last year. Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman G Madhavan Nair told reporters here this week that the replacement satellite would be launched in September 2007. ... more Huge Waves From One Storm Slam Coasts Some 6000 Km Apart 
Paris (ESA) Jun 01, 2007Huge waves that struck Reunion Island and coastlines across Indonesia earlier this month all originated from the same storm that occurred south of Cape Town, South Africa, and were tracked across the entire Indian Ocean for some 10 000 kilometres over a nine-day period by ESA's Envisat satellite. Waves reaching up to 11 metres devastated France's Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean when it ... more Amazon Tribesman Takes Rainforest Message To Japan 
Tokyo (AFP) May 31, 2007An Amazon tribal leader warned Thursday that the world will "destroy itself" unless nations stop clearing rainforests and voiced anger that his message is falling on deaf ears. Taking his campaign to the world's second-largest economy, Raoni Metyktire, a leader of the Kayapo Indians in Brazil, said Amazon nature was falling victim to development, mining and farming. "I have met with presid ... more |
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Perth, Australia (SPX) May 30, 2007The signature of climate change over the past 40 years has been identified in temperatures of the Indian Ocean near Australia. "From ocean measurements and by analysing climate simulations we can see there are changes in features of the ocean that cannot be explained by natural variability," said CSIRO oceanographer Dr Gael Alory. "These oceanic changes are almost certainly linked to ... more Indian Monsoon Arrives On Southwest Coast 
Thiruvananthapuram (AFP) India, May 28, 2007The first rain from India's annual monsoon, which is crucial to its farm-dependent economy, hit the southwest coast on Monday, a weather official said. "The onset of the annual southwest monsoon has begun over Kerala today," said K. Santosh, director of the Indian meteorological department's office in Thiruvananthapuram, the capital of Kerala state. A monsoon season, which lasts from June ... more India Rejects Greenhouse Gas Limits 
New Delhi (AFP) May 28, 2007India said Monday it would reject proposals to limit greenhouse gas emissions at a summit meeting of the world's leading economies next month because stricter limits would slow its booming economy. "Legally mandated measures for reducing greenhouse gas emissions are likely to have significant adverse impacts on GDP growth of developing countries, including India," environment ministry secretary ... more Hurricane Risks Higher Than Usual For Most Of US Coasts 
Orlando FL (SPX) May 28, 2007Much of the nation's Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coastlines face substantially higher-than-normal risks for hurricanes in 2007, according to an analysis by a University of Central Florida researcher and his Georgia colleague. Nationally, Carteret County on the North Carolina coastline has the highest probability of hurricane-force winds in 2007 at 22.4 percent, according to the analysis by UCF ... more
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