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Officials in India have announced plans to utilize a new tracking system to protect its endangered tiger population, according to an April 14 report by AFP.The country's tiger population, which was estimated to 3,700 in 2002, has dropped drastically. There are currently believed to be less than 1,400 of the big cats remaining in the country, and according to what India's Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh told the news agency, "lazy" wildlife field officers are largely to...

India's Environment Minister, Jairam Ramesh, on Thursday called on the rest of the world to avoid eating beef in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions."The single most important cause of (carbon) emissions is eating beef," said Ramesh, a vegetarian."My formula is stop eating beef. This would stop the emission of methane," he added.Beef "leads to emission of methane which is 23 times more potent than carbon dioxide," he said. India is known to consume less meat than...

Scientists were outraged on Tuesday over comments made by India's environment minister, in which he denied a link between climate change and the melting Himalayan glaciers.On Monday, India Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said he questioned the theories put forth by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and found no "conclusive scientific evidence" for a link between the melting Himalayan glaciers and global warming."None of our glaciers under monitoring are...

Despite India's opposition to binding carbon emission cuts and difficulty accepting scientific evidence about global warming, it claimed to be committed to coming to an agreement on battling climate change during the upcoming UN summit in Copenhagen."We are not defensive, we are not obstructionist. We want an international agreement in Copenhagen," Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh told reporters in New Delhi.He urged affluent nations to provide financial aid to developing...

The chasm further widened between rich and poor nations as dialogue centered on how to approach the climate change has turned into debate. The European Union insists that more action be taken in developing states to reduce greenhouse gas emissions; however India refused to accept key scientific findings used to support global warming.The environmental minister of India, Jairam Ramesh, claimed that the industrialized nations of the world are causing unnecessary fear about the melting Himalayan...

Text of unattributed report headlined "NPC to set up six more plants" published by Indian newspaper The Hindu website on 19 June Ramanathapuram: The Nuclear Power Corporation (NPC) will set up six more plants to produce 8,000 MW [Mega Watt] on Kudankulam mode with Russian fuel support, Jairam Ramesh, Minister of State for Power, said on Wednesday [18 June]. A few of them might be set up at Kudankulam, the union [federal] minister said, inaugurating a 92-MW natural gas cycle additional power...