Env News: Nov 2013
Env & Ecology
- The annual climate talks are all set to begin at the National Stadium at Warsaw in Poland.This conference of parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will be crucial to ensure that sufficient technical and political ground is covered in order to meet the ambitious time frame set for a deal in 2015 in Paris. More
- Super Typhoon Haiyan hits Philippines.(speed is more than 310 km/hr).Haiyan was earlier reported to be the most intense tropical storm in this area since Super Typhoon Tip (1979), and may even have exceeded the force of Tip.
- HONEYBEES play a crucial role in pollination, which lies at the crux of fruit formation and seed setting in plants. Unfortunately, anthropogenic activities (human activities)are increasingly threatening their survival like that of Diesel exhaust from automobiles. It was also noticed that of all the chemicals in the diesel exhaust, oxides of nitrogen (NOx) appeared to be the most damaging to floral scents.
