Aerosols and Their Impact on Indian Monsoon

Whenever we hear about Climate Change we usually relate it with increasing levels of greenhouse gases, trapping heat and thereby causing global warming. But this need not to be always the correct predictions, there is growing concern that human activity ..

Global Warming Potential

Global-warming potential (GWP) is a relative measure of how much heat a greenhouse gas traps in the atmosphere. It compares the amount of heat trapped by a certain mass of the gas in question to the amount of heat trapped ..

Coral Bleaching: Reasons and Impacts

Coral bleaching is the loss of intracellular endosymbionts through either expulsion or loss of algal pigmentation. When corals are stressed by changes in conditions such as temperature, light, or nutrients, they expel the symbiotic algae living in their tissues, causing ..

Problem of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) in India

Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) or Urban Solid Waste is a waste that includes predominantly household waste (domestic waste) with sometimes the addition of commercial wastes, construction and demolition debris, sanitation residue, and waste from streets , institutes such as hospitals, ..

Various Issues around GM Mustard DMH-11

In February 2016, the Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GMEC) deferred the decision to allow the commercial production of another GM crop viz. Mustard DMH-11. The new variety was developed by Centre for Genetic Manipulation of Crop Plants at Delhi University. ..

What happened to Bt Brinjal in India?

Bt Brinjal is a GM crop created by inserting Cry 1Ac gene from the soil bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis into Brinjal. The insertion of the gene gives Brinjal plant resistance against lepidopteron insects like the Brinjal Fruit and Shoot Borer (Leucinodes ..

Various Issues around Bt Cotton in India

Bt cotton, a transgenic plant which produces an insect controlling protein Cry1A(c), the gene for which has been derived from the naturally occurring bacterium, Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. kurstaki (B.t.k.). The cotton hybrids containing Bt gene produces its own toxin for ..

Legal Framework Around GM Crops

Globally, the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), particularly its Cartagena Protocol is related to GM crops. The basic focus of Cartagena protocol is Biosafety. This protocol is based upon the premise that the LMOs have become ingredients of an increasing ..