Environment

The Associated Press, that bastion of scientific knowledge, shares with us a list of "pests that are benefiting or could benefit from global warming", starting with:

_Ticks that transmit Lyme disease are spreading northward into Sweden and Canada, once too cold for them.
_Giant Humboldt squid have reached waters as far north as British Columbia,
threatening fisheries along much of the western North American coast.

1 The early colonizers :
Some of the early colonizers including small ephemerals include: Polygala erioptera DC.; Polycarpaea corymbosa (L.) Lamk. ; Gisekia phamacioides L ; Mollugo cerviana (L.) Ser. ; Side ovals Forsk. ; Corchorus tridens L. ; Triumfetta pentandra A. Rick. ; Indigofera essiliflora DC. ; I. linnaei Ali. These plant species have their value as initial colonizer and are not suitable as biomass resource because" their yield potential is very low. These early colonizers provide helpful association for any subsequent plant to come in the succession like Artemisia scoparia Waldst. ; Farsetia hamiltonii Royle. ; Tephrosia purpurea (L.) Pers ; Citrullus colocynthis (L.) Schrad.; Boerhavia diffuse L. and other herbs.

·     Biofuels offer clear advantages in terms of greenhouse gas emissions, but do they perform better when we look at all the environmental impacts from a life cycle perspective?

Sanganer the world famous printing industry and hand paper industry has totally polluted the water of famous town of Sanganer Jaipur Behind the colourful bedsheets , skirts , and dress material there lies heaps of coloured water which is highly poisonous to the local people. Paper industry causes immense pollution. Three of my students have been working with isolating bacteria from the roots of the plants which can provide some solutions for bioremediation of waste water with only limited success. Pollution rules are there to please someone but who is that someone No adhearance to clean up unit to be established by each industry are adheared to and industries all over are polluting rivers, cities and nations and people are suffering silently.

Its people who can fight and control the climate  change and carbon and pollution levels and not the Governments as they dont create pollution Its greed of the people , greed of the heavy industries to make more and more money unmindful of excess pollution, its greed of man to move in luxury cars , its greed of man to enjoy every bit of natural resources unmindful of their children that creates pollution, environmental , social , cultural and widens the gap between have and have nots. No Government in the world can check pollution by making laws. No amount of money pumped by the rich into poor countries can save pollution unless the humanbeings are taught and they honour and respect environment.

The subject of Climate change has been bandied about now for approximately 20 years.  Governments and scientists have studied it; the world has talked about it.  Do we really believe in the seriousness of it?  Climate change is not a hoax, it is real, and the earth’s climate has been changing for millions of years.  Climate change is not a jet plane streaking across the sky but more like a glacier slowly inching its way along.&nbsp

BIOREMEDIATION OF SALINE SOILS USING HALOPHYTES. IN SEMI-ARID REGIONS OF RAJASTHAN INDIA.

Ashwani Kumar,

Departemnt of Botany , University of Rajasthan, Jaipur. 302004.

India

Email. Msku31@yahoo.com Fax. 00 91 141 565905 Phone 00 91 141 651627.

Introduction:

Indian arid zone covers an area of about 0.3 million sq.km.

The state of Rajasthan has total land area of about 3,42,274 Km2 out of which about 96,100 km2 is arid and rest semi arid.

In December an important climate change meeting will take place in Copenhagen, Denmark: The United Nations Climate Change Meeting or the so-called COP15 climate meeting.

Genetically modified foods (GM foods or GMF) offer a way to quickly improve crop characteristics such as yield, pest resistance, or herbicide tolerance, often to a degree not possible with traditional methods. Further, GM crops can be manipulated to produce completely artificial substances, from the precursors to plastics to consumable vaccines.