What is Ice Age?

The general term "ice age" or, more precisely, "glacial age" denotes a geological period of long-term reduction in the temperature of the Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in an expansion of continental ice sheets, polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers.

An ice age is a natural system. Within a long-term ice age, individual pulses of extra cold climate are termed "glaciations". Glaciologically, ice age implies the presence of extensive ice sheets in the northern and southern hemispheres; by this definition we are still in an ice age (because the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets still exist).
MICRO-ORGANISMS TO HELP MANAGE CITY WASTE The decision to use Effective Micro-organisms is part of the monsoon preparedness work of Chennai Corporation. This is part of the monsoon preparedness efforts of the civic body to protect residents of the localities near the dump yards from fetid smell, a plague of mosquitoes and flies and the fear of malaria and other fevers. Effective Microorganisms is a combination of various naturally occurring beneficial micro-organisms mostly found in foods, including phototrophic bacteria, lactic acid bacteria and yeast.

These secrete beneficial substances such as vitamins, organic acids, chelated minerals and antioxidants when they come into contact with organic matter in the dump yards. The organisms applied in liquid form to the solid waste would speed up the process of converting it into biofertilizer. The odour from the waste can be managed as it is converted into harmless and  useful products. Decomposition of waste usually takes several months, but with the help of these micro-organisms it will take only four to six weeks.The micro-organisms would also change soil micro flora and fauna so that disease-inducing soil becomes disease-suppressing soil.
GOSAT and ENVISAT satellites. The Greenhouse gases Observing SATellite (GOSAT) Project is a joint effort promoted by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES) and the Ministry of the Environment (MOE).

NIES organized the research team dedicated to the GOSAT project within its organization in April 2004, and since then has been working for the research and development with respect to GOSAT "IBUKI". Launched in 2002, Envisat is the largest Earth Observation spacecraft ever built. Launched by European space agency , It carries ten sophisticated optical and radar instruments to provide continuous observation and monitoring of the Earth's land, atmosphere, oceans and ice caps. Envisat data collectively provide a wealth of information on the workings of the Earth system, including insights into factors contributing to climate change.
AHMEDABAD ISRO CENTRE TO MAP HIMALAYAN REGION The Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) Space Application Centre in Ahmedabad will undertake mapping and tracing of the Himalayan region to keep track of the movement of glaciers and their health. This is to put in place governance and management of the Himalayan eco-system.

Government recently released a report, "Governance for Sustaining Himalayan Ecosystem: Guidelines and Best Practices (G-SHE)." The report will be a key input in the formulation of a National Mission for sustaining the Himalayan ecosystem under India’s National Action Plan for Climate Change.
"The mission aims to scientifically study the impact of climate change on Indian Himalaya and put in place adaptation measures to meet the growing challenge. The mission will bring together the efforts of climatologists, glaciologists, other experts as well as local stakeholders."

The G-SHE report was meant to be a working document, to provide the basis for new approaches and practices. The report has been put in the public domain, including on the Ministry website. Comments and inputs have been sought from the State governments, domestic and international institutions, civil society, local communities and other stakeholders.
Glaciologists institute The government decided to set up a National Institute of Himalayan Glaciologists in Dehra Dun. It would become India’s main centre of excellence for monitoring the Himalayan glaciers. "India will join hands with Bhutan, China and Nepal to study the health of the glaciers." Government also announced the setting up of 15 fully automated weather stations in Jammu and Kashmir, Uttarakhand, Sikkim, Himachal Pradesh and Arunachal Pradesh to monitor the climate in the Himalayan region and help authorities in preparing data and research profile. The first of these would become operational in a couple of days at Almora in Uttarakhand.
COPENHAGEN NEGOTIATING TEXT: 200 PAGES TO SAVE WORLD? In 2012 the Kyoto Protocol to prevent climate changes and global warming runs out. To keep the process on the line there is an urgent need for a new climate protocol. At the conference in  Copenhagen 2009 the parties of the UNFCCC meet for the last time on government level before the climate agreement need to be renewed. Therefore the Climate Conference in Copenhagen is essential for the worlds climate and the Danish government and UNFCCC is putting hard effort in making the meeting in Copenhagen a success ending up with a Copenhagen Protocol to prevent global warming and climate changes. Bella Center. 
The Climate Conference will take place in the
Governmental representatives from 170 countries are expected to be in Copenhagen in the days of the conference accompanied by other governmental representatives, NGO's, journalists and others. In total 8000 people are expected to Copenhagen in the days of the climate meeting. The draft agreement being discussed ahead of December’s crucial Copenhagen summit is long, confusing and contradictory. It is a blueprint to save the world Traditional sticking points The text includes sections on the traditional sticking points that have delayed progress on climate change for a decade or longer:  How much are rich countries willing to cut their greenhouse gas emissions, and by when?  Will large developing nations such as China make an effort to put at least a dent in their levels of pollution? 
According to U.N. rules, for a new treaty to be agreed, every country must sign up. The treaty is designed to follow the Kyoto protocol, the world’s existing treaty to regulate emissions, the first phase of which expires in 2012. Because the U.S. did not ratify Kyoto, the climate talks have been forced on to parallel tracks, with one set of negotiations, from which the U.S. is excluded, debating how the treaty could be extended. This new text comes from the second track, which lays out a plan to include all countries in cooperative action.
The U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change has the ultimate objective, set at the Earth Summit in Rio in 1992, to prevent "dangerous anthropogenic interference" with climate. How much money must flow from the developed world to developing countries to secure their approval? How much to compensate for the impact of past emissions, and how much to prevent future emissions?