-The Hindustan Times Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), whose findings have been controversial, will make its biggest admission this month - it was wrong on the extent of global warming by end of this century in 2007. The IPCC fifth assessment report to be released by end of this month would claim that the global temperature will rise by 1 to 2.5 degree Celsius not by 1 to 3 degree Celsius...

-The Economic Times NEW DELHI: Monsoon rainfall, crucial for food production in India, is expected to intensify in the future and the rainy season is likely to be longer, according to the draft report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. A leaked draft of the first of three reports comprising the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Fifth Assessment Report states while monsoon circulation is likely to weaken, monsoon precipitation is likely...

-The Hindu     Concrete structures come up under Indiramma housing scheme CHERIAL (WARANGAL DT., Andhra Pradesh): The lifestyle and habits in villages are fast changing and so also, the physical outlook. The beautiful, typical and old model houses are replaced by concrete buildings, partly thanks to the Indiramma housing, flagship programme of the State government. Every village boasted of houses of different kinds - thatched roof houses, tiled houses, Chathurashala Bhavanthi and ‘Gadi' or...

-The Times of India Ever since data released earlier this year showed that in the past 15 years, global average temperatures had not risen as fast they had earlier, there has been much hue and cry. Climate change sceptics naturally seized upon this to declare that they had been proved right. Last month, leaked portions of the forthcoming IPCC report, too, were reported by Western media outlets to contain this...

-Frontline A World Bank report on climate change warns that a warmer world will trap millions in poverty. "Much of the advance of European capitalists and other members of the European ruling class was at the cost of the colonised and enslaved peoples of Africa, Asia and Latin America," says Amiya Kumar Bagchi in his book "Perilous Passage: Mankind and the Global Ascendancy of Capital." Capitalist expansion following the Industrial Revolution involved...