Climate Change is not a myth but a natural process and it seems we humans have had quite a role in accelerating it, hence the mention of “anthropogenic emissions” wherever and whenever climate change is mentioned. Reducing the carbon footprint Read more…
The World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA), managed by the World Conservation Monitoring Center, maintains a list of protected areas from the world over. A joint project of the United Nations Environment Program and the International Union for Conservation of Read more…
wonderfully placed!! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qALsFBSCrAw&hl=en&fs=1] Originally from desmogblog
I shared my earlier post with quite a number of friends and most seem to have misjudged my stance on climate change. I have never denied that climate change/global warming is an issue. The only bothersome aspect about climate change Read more…
Ignorance is bliss, or is it? What if, we were all oblivious to the pesticides, antibiotics in our food, the smoke/smog in our atmosphere, the toxins in the drinking water and the problems with all our daily lives (carpal tunnel Read more…
Yet another e-conference from International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) and the Mountain Forum Secretariat (MFS) (Nepal) after the Mountain GIS e-Conference. This time, the theme is different as it has much to do with Culture and Risk and Read more…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jangelo/238321343/ Capitalising on Web 2.0 features, Google Maps, Wikimapia, OpenStreetMap among others, are free services that allow non-spatial people to relate and contribute to the creation of maps. Such services integrate and generate contributions from a wider audience, and Read more…
The other day at work was particularly notable. A division at work showcased its accomplishments in the Geosciences domain. Presentations over a half day session showcased and stressed on what adding a geo dimension to all things non spatial can Read more…
This is exactly as Google said it. I was minding my business, researching material for a work project and then lo.. Google lowjacked me with this.. :=] We’re sorry… … but your query looks similar to automated requests from a Read more…
Blogger Diane Francis at the Huffingtonpost writes about bottled water: The height of stupidity, where she mentions the cost aspects of the bottled water sold in the departmental stores across the States. She also draws up interesting maths to support Read more…