It’s called The Carbon Footprint and the challenge is to make yours smaller. At least that’s what those hoping to curb the climatic change say. A carbon footprint represents the impact of an individual, household or business on the buildup of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

It’s not as if I’m not concerned about the environment, or am not affected by the degrading quality of air in our cities. Like many others, I too have read the reams reports written about on global warming in the newspapers

The Earth is made up of five elements which are water, fire, metal, earth and wood. The basic elements of life are either being misused or polluted by man. Our whole ecology is totally dependent on these elements. Mans greed to achieve comfort has endangered the environment to a great extent, the immediate result of which is that global warming and climate change.

We have all been talking about climate change for sometime now. The world began from the ‘Little Ice age’ to the warm, warmer, warmest… what happens next?? Climate has changed since the beginning of human existence.

Climate change is one of the most daunting problems which is being faced by living beings for some time now humanity is facing today. Almost every big summit, every talk between nations isn’t incomplete without strategizing discussion on how to overcome climate change issues.

Each drop of water is a source of life. Life would not have even begun if water had been absent on the surface of the earth. More than 70% of the earth’s crust is covered with water. Out of this, 97% of the water is in the form of saline water and 3% in the form of fresh water.

Global warming- is it an environmental problem or the environmental problem? Global warming has caught the attention of people across the globe and it is currently the issue against which countries are taking action. Most governments across the globe follow a reactive approach rather than a proactive approach.

Global warming is causing havoc today… threatening the world on its gun point which is showering bullets of heat waves… melting the glaciers, continuous rise in temperature, cyclones, landslides and the list goes on… It has been proved by our scientists long ago that climate change and Global Warming is human induced.

Try explaining global warming to high school students and they look at your explanation with vacant expression, try explaining it to the common house wife and you will get a distressful and skeptic look and by the time we reach out to the working population they consider the information all but irrelevant in their perfect little spheres of personal lives. As far as the...

Everyone knows that mankind’s consistent march down the path towards achieving technological progress has increasingly put the environment at risk. Nobody would deny this. And yet, nobody is really interested in engaging with environmental

Global warming today is a burning environmental issue which is bothering environmentalists all around the world, and why not, it is an issue that tends to challenge the very existence of life on earth. Though few scientists think that global warming

Environment pollution is a major concern for the humans today. Many countries are taking serious measures to minimize environmental pollution. There are many causes of pollution mismanagement of chemicals, medical wastes, soil erosion, etc.

Environmental crisis has reached stupendous heights as we almost step out of the first decade of the new millennium. . Environmental problems abound in their variety and intensity, provoking human beings today to think anew about their

Risto Isomaki in his article on “Global Warming: A very serious issue” tells us that “Russian scientists reported that the whole West Siberian permafrost region had suddenly started to melt. According to Sergei Kirpotin and his co-workers

Man, the so called most intelligent and the most civilized animal on this planet, is busy making continued progress and developments ever since his birth on earth and has given so much to mankind by his inventions and discoveries. The developments

“If I were a Star, my blaze and profoundly passionate fury could char the whole world into a gutted land. If I were a Sea Wave, my belligerence and aggressive wrath could incapacitate the whole world in its voracious mouth.

With Global Warming and pollution assuming centre stage in the concern for environment protection, a few lately emerged menaces to the environment are going relatively and dangerously unnoticed. One such looming threat stems literally from man made causes. Stepping out from the pages of science fiction itself

Before this piece of writing gets discarded as the ranting of someone who is still in the colonial era, I would like to present my stance on the issue in a manner that is not very commonly reported in the mainstream media. Not much of

Ozone layer is a region of the stratosphere, between 15 and 30 kilometres in altitude, containing a relatively high concentration of ozone. The layer is of two types namely bad ozone, formed in the lower atmosphere called Troposphere

In the year 1999 and seven months [July] The great King of Terror will come from the sky He will resurrect Ghengis Khan Before and after war rules happily.   Nostradamians have interpreted this quatrain as his prophecy for the third World War. While the world is still in dilemma over the above interpretation that it actually meant a World War, but situation these...

Ever seen a greenhouse? They are the sheds with roofs and sometimes even walls made of glass and other transparent material. This lets a huge amount of solar heat in and warms the air which is trapped inside by the roof and the walls, keeping the temperature inside the greenhouse much warmer than outside. In cold climates this helps certain species of plants that prefer...

With great power comes great responsibility, we were told by Spiderman and how I wish that Science were a human being and could understand. As Science continues taking giant strides in making significant and dare I say life saving contributions in our lives especially in the field of medicine it is important to look also at the flipside. The costs arising because of the...

Our physical environment, and the preservation of it, rarely demands our attention. Our world, as we know always takes care of itself, or so we believed, not anymore. Man’s activities, all attained at aiming material contentment, has disrupted nature’s

Environment – the gift of nature given by God, which includes everything that is natural; not artificial. The environment is exploited by human beings for their own benefits and it is increasing day by day. As a result

Last December, our Energy Network of ShARE DSE (The Delhi School of Economics branch of the global student’s organisation comprising of top economics institutes) aired a wonderful documentary, “A Degree of Concern” by Fayaz Rizvi,

The term ‘Global Warming’ has definitely shaken the globe by now. World over, governments, researchers and science institutes are being plagued by this alarming phenomenon and trying to address the issue. Global warming is basically the increase

Green house gases such as carbon dioxide, water vapour, methane and nitrous oxide trap the heat from the infra red radiations of the sun and heat up the earth’s atmosphere. This has caused a rise in mean temperature of the earth’s atmosphere, causing global warming. Even though burning of fossil fuels in thermal power plants is the main source of producing

The idea that the earth is getting warmer may have the scientific community rushing off to conferences, but it’s left the general public sitting at home wondering what the fuss is all about. So let’s just clear some ‘hot’ air.

The problem of global warming is not alien to anyone of us. From melting ice-caps to the destruction of the habitats of animals, the phenomena has various manifestations, each as

Technically speaking, Global Warming refers to the warming of the earth’s atmosphere as a result of increase in the concentration of one or more green house gases. A green house gas is a gas which traps heat in the atmosphere near the earth’s surface

Climate Change (CC) is the most burning issue these days. The potential effect of CC is a key concern for the environmental science community and the government of any nation. The degrees at which human conditions and the natural environment are vulnerable to the impacts of CC, have become primary issues worldwide. Over the past several years, scientists, policy makers...

The melting of ice caps, the change of gulf streams, erratic monsoons, floods and droughts – these are one of the many things that threaten to erode the benefits accrued by mankind. All these natural calamities owe their origin not to God almighty, but to another catastrophic phenomenon; Global Warming.

“Two thousand scientists, in a hundred countries, engaged in the most elaborate, well organized scientific collaboration in the history of humankind, have produced long-since a consensus that we will face a string of terrible catastrophes unless we act to prepare ourselves and deal with the underlying causes of global warming.”

Yes, we all love our planet earth. After all, we live on it. We also care for it. That is why today it seems just as it was some 10-20 years before, just with new more modern technology. If by any chance we have made our environment dirty, heaven will be neat and tidy, anyway, so why bother.

An issue that has assumed centre stage in the last two decades is “Global warming”. It has uncovered the deep rooted antagonism that exists between the developing and the developed nations. It is an issue that delves on development, ethics and survival. So what exactly is global warming? What is it that made it a point to ponder over for the world leaders? To simply...

Eating straight out of a dumpster was never this much fun. Enter ‘Freeganism’. The phenomenon that denounces all forms of consumerism and capitalism. The people who believe in the simple life, protection of environment and revival of family and social values. The people who live life the basic rustic way; and when it comes to ‘rustic’, they have no qualms going...

Hello Sheena! I need you here. What happened Devika? Sweetie I have put on 5 kgs. I am no longer a size zero and tomorrow is Karan’s birthday. What do I do?…..Puzzled…You would have thought that this was something that was a part of Vh1’s sweet 16

Hello Sheena! I need you here. What happened Devika? Sweetie I have put on 5 kgs. I am no longer a size zero and tomorrow is Karan’s birthday. What do I do?…..Puzzled…You would have thought that this was something that was a part of Vh1’s sweet 16…think again…Like all things American Indians have caught on to this fad as well and alarmingly so.

I was listening to Ben Harper’s ‘I can change the world… with my own two hands’ and was wondering… is it actually possible through my individual actions to change the world? The world is full of preachers than doers. Maybe I am one of them too. We keep complaining about the society, the environment, administrative bodies.

This is the century of the economic boom. India itself has seen a growth rate of 9 per cent in the previous fiscal. There is a hurry to reap as many benefits in as little time as possible. We want our production capacity to escalate and our profits to skyrocket in the industrial sector, infrastructural sector, manufacturing sector, etc.

Every morning as I drag myself out of the bed, and get ready to drop my sister to the bus stop, there is one scene that I always encounter, irrespective of the season. The scene of overflowing water tanks. This doesn’t happen on any particular occasion, but surprisingly, daily.It makes me wonder sadly that in a place like Delhi where there is an acute water shortage,...

What does our world wake up to? To the news of children being killed in Iraq, of the homeless in Sudan, rising inflation, new consumer products, cinema, scientific discoveries and what not. However, of late, we are waking up to another unfortunate reality – that of climate change. Climate change is a global concern that is going to affect us all negatively. And I...

What is it with us? Why can’t we save the very thing that is helping us live? Just look at the earth today. Our planet is dying at her children’s hands. Her breath is getting choked due to all the harmful gases our cars and air conditioners emit. We are stripping off her clothes by cutting all those trees, and making her shed tears by making those precious glaciers...

The rising pollution levels and its aftermath like global warming are beginning to spiral out of control even though the Governments of all the countries did initiate some steps lately, by enforcing laws to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. The Kyoto protocol, which had the intention of putting stringent marks on developed nations to cut down their green house gases emission,...

Felt the chill in Delhi lately? If you are one of the many who thought that you would freeze to death on an especially chilly Monday morning, welcome to the effects of global warming. We’ve almost always treated the phenomenon of global warming with kid gloves. We’ve read about it, and we throw the term around in casual conversation quite often without actually realizing...

Cigarettes were cool – not so much anymore. In popular American TV Show, F.R.I.E.N.D.S, Rachel and Monica gross out when Chandler lights up. The cigarette issue is a closed one in Hollywood – now, it’s all about the environment. Not having a cause or charity is a liability – it’s bad PR. There are more and more celebrities who’s names are synonymously attached...

Scores of articles have been written, heated debates have ensued and fingers have been pointed to various organisations, activities, policies and methods that have caused a furthering of the pitiable state of affairs that the environment is gloomily in now. Global warming, species extinction, habitat destruction, coral bleaching, desertification, ozone depletion, eutrophication…...

“20 years earlier a child asked for clay toys, dolls, and kitchen items; today, a child asked for Robots, Computer games and Sports Cars.” This illustration itself underlines the changing dynamics of a world swept of its feet by globalization and commercialization. Man today is so completely engrossed in his personal well being and survival that the importance...

“Meat is murder on the environment” is a science article written by Daniele Fanelli Published on 8 July 2007 on the NewScientist.com news service. The article contributes to the present discourse of ‘global warming’ by provide surprising information about how beef causes more greenhouse gas. It is one of the best science-related news feature has come out in...

As Climate Change threatens humanity with dire consequences like Global Warming and haphazard rainfall patterns, world policy makers at the United Nations adopt a remedial approach that the common man would honour: monetary gain.The Kyoto Protocol, an amendment to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, aims at trimming Greenhouse Gas Emissions to sub-1990...

For the still ignorant, this would be an obnoxious fact to come to terms with “hotter temperatures and frequent rises in sea level would continue to be a recurring phenomenon for several centuries despite all efforts to contain pollution on a world wide scale.” And the above statement is by no means “just a rant” by some brooding pessimists. Infact it has been...

Taking Climate Change Mitigation to the Market As climate change threatens humanity with dire consequences like global warming and fluctuating rainfall patterns, world policy makers at the United Nations adopt a remedial approach that the common man would appreciate- providing monetary incentives. The Kyoto Protocol, an amendment to the United Nations Framework Convention...