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NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE ACADEMY Vol. 16 Issue - 5 (MONTHLY)

May 2013

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1ST ANNOUNCEMENT National Seminar on

Climate Change and Environmental Sustainable Development AT NEW DELHI, INDIA 1. Papers are invited for the above mentioned National Seminar which 2.

CALL FOR PAPERS

will be held in 2013 at New Delhi. Please send your abstract (s) in the abstract form FORM B (which can be had on request). The main aim of the event is to provide an opportunity to the world's environmentalists, scientists, Academicians, Engineers, Industrialists and Planners, to share their skills and Scientific knowledge for suggesting amicable solutions for the environment related problems presently facing the people living in different parts of the world. The conference will also provide a platform for detailed discussions on advanced researches, made during recent years in Environmental sciences in relation to Biology, Agriculture, Forests, Industries, Water Ecosystems, Marine Biology, Atmosphere, Chemical and Earth Sciences, Nuclear and Geophysics etc. Problems prevailing in the world. Interested people are invited to register and submit their papers/abstracts to [email protected]; [email protected] by 31st of October, 2013. During Conference various Awards like Fellowships of the Year 2013; Best Scientist awards, Eminent Scientist of the year 2013: Environmentalist of the Year 2013: Junior Scientists of the year 2013 will also be conferred. The Conference will deliberate on the following areas of Research:

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ENVIRONMENTAL BIOLOGY & BIOTECHNOLOGY SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH; AQUACULTURE, AGRICULTURE, INDUSTRY AND URBANIZATION WASTE MANAGEMENT, INDUSTRIAL HAZARDS AND POLLUTION EMISSION AND ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING ANALYTICAL TOOLS IN HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT FOOD SAFETY, NUTRITION AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY CLIMATE CHANGE COMMUNITY HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT POLAR AND MARINE SCIENCE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT AND BIOREMEDIATION

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TRADITIONAL SYSTEMS OF MEDICINE WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO MEDICINAL PLANTS

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GEOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHICAL SCIENCE

The exact place of venue and dates will be published in this newsletter as soon it is finalised.

For more details related to the Conference please contact to [email protected]; [email protected] or [email protected] ....cont.... on page 2 col 1

APPLICATIONS ARE INVITED FROM

ENVIRONMENTALIST OF THE YEAR AWARDS

THE LIFE-MEMBERS OF THE ACADEMY FOR THE AWARDS OF 2013 FROM ALL OVER THE GLOBE

The ACADEMY awards ENVIRONMENTALIST OF THE YEAR AWARDS . The recipients shall get Citation, Certificate, Memento and a Gold plated medal.

LAST DATE : 31-8-2013

JR. SCIENTISTS OF THE YEAR AWARDS

FELLOWSHIP AWARDS

The ACADEMY awards Jr. SCIENTISTS OF THE YEAR AWARDS to the Junior Scientists who are below the age of 35. The recipients shall get Citation, Certificate, Memento and a Gold plated medal. Applicants should not be more than 35 years on 31-12-2013.

FELLOWSHIP is the highest award given by this Academy. It confers FELLOWSHIP AWARDS every year. The recipients shall get Citation, Certificate, Memento and a Gold plated medal. Awardees can suffix F.N.E.S.A. after their names.

BEST SCIENTISTS AWARDS The Academy confers BEST SCIENTIST AWARD every year. The recipient shall get Citation, Certificate, Memento and a Gold plated medal.

EMINENT SCIENTISTS OF THE YEAR The Academy confers 5 EMINENT SCIENTISTS AWARDS every year, The recipient shall get Citation, Certificate, Memento and a Gold plated medal.

SCIENTISTS OF THE YEAR AWARDS The Academy awards 10 SCIENTISTS OF THE YEAR AWARDS. The recipients shall get Citation, Certificate, Memento and a Gold plated medal.

NESA Newsletter May 2013

PRESCRIBED APPLICATION FORMS Separate application form should be used for separate awards. The forms are non transferable and it can be had by sending a bank draft of Rs. 100000/$40 only (per form), drawn in favour of NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE ACADEMY payable at NEW DELHI and send it to : The General Secretary-NESA 206, Raj Tower-1, Alaknanda Comm. Centre, NEW DELHI-110019 (INDIA) Tel.: 011-2602 3614 E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]

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Organic farming for food production vis-à-vis environmental health A. Arunachalam* and Kamlesh Golhani** *Division of Natural Resources Management, Krishi Anusandhan Bhavan -II, Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi **Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Bhopal *E-mail: [email protected]

Dr. A. Arunachalam

Organic farming is an important form of ecofriendly practices of food production vis-a-vis agroecosystem management. This is considered to be an adaptive strategy to mitigate upon chemical food production causing physiological disorders such as respiratory diseases, loss of immunity, blindness, dumbness, and skin ailment etc. Evidently, the High Court of India - Delhi had set up a committee to examine the impact of agricultural chemicals on healthy food values of agricultural produce. Nevertheless, the major objective of organic farming is to ensure food safety and security. In India, states like Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh have provisionally declared their states as organic, and they are working towards conversion of exiting farming practices to organic method without affecting the level of production over long-term. Most Indian farmers are marginal and small land holders, and majorly they depend on mixed farming system. Based on the socio-economic conditions, farmers can be classified as small farmers and capitalist farmers. The small farmers are poor and have limited farm resources and even they cannot afford to use high quantity of chemicals/ fertilizers and insecticides and yet do not adopt total organic farming practices. On the contrary, the large land-holding farmers have resources for application of

heavy dose of fertilizers and do accept new technologies of agriculture with the sole aim of yield increment. Vermicompost, vermi–wash, bioinoculant, farm yard manure and more importantly natural farming techniques are some examples that have potential solutions to ameliorate the chemical-based farming practices. However, these are feasible only when abundant organic residues and farm yard manures are available for the purpose, which is practical more in the larger land-holdings per se. In India, small farmers generally do not have skill for proper utilization of organic matter, as the availability of organic residues is a demand. Likewise, the capitalist farmers do not want to compromise with reduction in the level of production by introducing organic farming, due mainly to under-developed market linkages. Over all, there is need of two way (farmer : government) interactive organic food corporation system, where farmers could adopt organic farming to safeguard soil health vis-a-vis human safety. Government subsidy on organic manures along with provision of good storage, value addition, processing and marketing facilities could provide impetus to promotion of organic farming for its adoption. Nevertheless, certification of organic farm and farm produce is yet another challenging issue, which does not facilitate farmers' to undertake organic farming for the very complications that are involved in the certification procedures. This warrants a simplified institutional mechanism by which procedural difficulties are lessened to harness the benefits of organic farming in the country. Environmentally, organic farming helps in ameliorating the agroecosystem services and sequesters more carbon. Thus, the practice could be viewed as tangible measure for quality food production that could materialise intangible ecological services. l l l l l

Waterless Eco-friendly Holi & Rangapanchami Campaigning Initiated by DEC Conveners

In the second phase of Km. Kuldeepika Singh Memorial Environmental Awareness Programs, Waterless and natural (herbal) colours based ecofriendly Holi & Rangapanchami 2013 awareness programs were conducted in the district public places and schools to aware the people and students about the water & tree conservation, benefits of dry herbal colours & tilak Holi and harmful effects of the chemical colours because chemical colours are being made by the many inorganic metals (like Hg, Cu, Al, Zn, Fe, Pd, etc) all these are polluting air, water and land and;

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chemical or synthetic colours are harmful to the whole ecological system. And people were advised to use natural or herbal colours made by the home items (like mehadi, maida, haldi, etc), flowers (like Tesu, palas, gaida, rose, etc) and vegetables (like beetroot, spinach, etc) which make the healthy skin and wash the bacterial infections from the body. During the campaigning, importance of the tree in the life of living beings was addressed in the all group discussions. Cut down of the tree for burning of the huge Holi is responsible for the huge emissions of greenhouse gases (especially CO2) and soot particles which are accelerating the global warming as well as climate change. During the campaigning, pamphlets distribution and poster demonstration activities were conducted among the people; thereafter the positive effects of the campaigning observed in the whole district to the water and tree conservation. This year, people helped to save lot of water, tree and environment. In this awareness programs, print media as hindi news paper (as Dainik, Bhasker, Raj Express, Nav Bharat) were advertised to the waterless ecofriendly Holi celebration. l l l l l


Climate Change: Impacts, Challenges and Future A. Basu1 and S. K. Basu2* and P. Mukhopadhyay 3 Medical College Kolkata, WB India; 2University of Lethbridge, AB Canada; WB State University, Barasat, WB, India; *email: [email protected] 1

Saikat Basu

In the last few decades, the Earth's climate has changed drastically and led to the endangerment of several plant and animal species in the planet. The causes for this climate change have been both natural and man-made. This has resulted in an increase in the concentration of greenhouse gases and caused the Earth's temperature to rise by about one degree Fahrenheit in the last century. This global climate change has brought about a huge impact on the lives of flora, fauna and the physical environment of the planet. The biodiversity rich zones, otherwise called the 'hot spots' have started to be wiped off the face of Earth quite steadily. The alteration in ocean environment has affected the viability of the coral reefs, thereby endangering lives of thousands of marine organisms. The climate change has had a pronounced influence on the lives of the amphibians. Sex changes have been noted among the reptilians. Melting of glaciers in the North Pole has affected the polar bears (Ursus maritimus), both in terms of food and shelter. In the South Pole, the penguins are the worst hit, specifically the Emperor penguins (Aptenodytes forsteri) and Adélie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae). The excess precipitation obliterates the bird nesting grounds and the melting ice sheets carry off their young ones.

The altered climate has caused a significant reduction in insect population and thereby affecting the pollination. This may result in serious shortage in human food source and thus lead to starvation. The intolerably high global temperature is likely to raise the concentration of ground level ozone and Respiratory Particulate Matter, resulting in increased incidence of chronic pulmonary disorders. The cases of heat stroke are already on the rise. The global warming has led to an increased occurrence of floods and cyclones, thereby multiplying the breeding places of arthropod vectors. This is likely to increase attacks of malaria and dengue and other vector borne diseases among the tropical nations. An important effect exerted by the global climate change is on the conveyer belt system like heat transport circulating between the Poles and the Atlantic. Melting of glaciers is exerting an alarming impact on this heat transport system. If this continues unabated, then the system is likely to be completely disrupted and cause vanishing of the entire marine life in this region. Hence, it seems quite difficult, if not impossible, to halt the further progression of this climate change. But limiting the global concentration of greenhouse gases to around 450 ppm of CO2 equivalent may help in keeping the Earth's temperature to around a constant value. Eco-friendly measures of waste disposal based on the principle of Recycle- Reduce- Reuse may result in reducing emission of higher amounts of greenhouse gases. However, all these activities seem too easy being said than being accomplished based on the present day scenario.

DEC Guna (MP) Participated in the Earth Hour 2013 Campaigning

Under the Km. Kuldeepika Singh Memorial Environmental Awareness Programs, District conveners Sucheta Singh & Hambir singh of District Environmental Centre Guna (MP) participated in the campaigning and celebration of Earth Hour 2013 in the Guna district to reduce greenhouse gases emissions and to control global warming/climate change by conserving of conventional energy resources (such as coal, oil and NG). Because, this is the peak time to take action of the world people to cut down the emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) (like CO2 etc) which are

the main culprit of global warming and climatic bad events (like rainfall disturbance, drought, flood, loss of food production, hunger, poverty, diseases, water shortage etc); Nowadays, level of CO2 into the atmosphere is going to touch 400 ppm which is due to the modern lifestyle, urbanization, industrialization and growth of population. So, people were conveyed to use renewable energy resources (like solar, wind, gobar gas etc) to conserve the fossil fuels energy and to cut GHGs emissions & pollution. Year by year, popularization of Earth Hour by the district ........contd. on p4 col.1


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Publication on dated : 10.05.2013 ............contd. from p3 col 2 conveners and her team in the central part of MP and nearby state Rajasthan, now, most of the rural and urban population had aware about the Earth Hour celebration or BATTI BAND program. Earth Hour 2013 celebrated on 23rd March from 8.30 PM to 9.30 PM plus (60 minutes +). This year, most of the conveyed people in rural and urban areas, residents of government public sectors (like National fertilizers Ltd Vijaipur unit & GAIL Vijaipur unit Guna), recreation centers, Guna city residential, city markets, many restaurants and business centers participated in celebration of “Earth Hour 2013”. They helped to reduce thousands kg of GHGs emission and pollution by switch off electrical devices for more than an hour (60 minutes +). Earth Hour campaigning was done by Hindi & English posters, pamphlets distribution, group discussions, banners, public place discussions (like bus stands, common places, markets, etc) and school programs to motivate the people for Earth Hour 2013 celebration. During the Earth Hour celebration, People were suggested to use 1-2 Watt LED/CFL, palm/soya oil candles or gobar gas mantle/ solar lantern/ vegetable earthen lamp (in village) if necessary. All over the district and nearby people of Rajasthan state were advised to take huge participation in this Earth Hour 2013. During the campaigning, people were advised to follow the Earth Hour activity in every day/week by their own interest to take action against climate change. In the Earth Hour awareness, print media hindi news paper (as Dainik, Bhasker, Raj Express, Nav Bharat etc), Guna district administration, police department, NFL & GAIL Viaipur management, milkmen and school teachers helped to distribute pamphlets among the people and students to celebrate Earth Hour 2013. l l l l l

You can’t make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable. Deepak Chopra The environment is everything that isn’t me. Albert Einstein It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. Ansel Adams We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment. Margaret Mead In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace. Wangari Maathai If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment. B. F. Skinner

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