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Published online 12 April 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news070409-12

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India set to check environmental pulse

Proposal aims to measure changes in the land, sea and atmosphere.

India desperately needs to join a coordinated global effort to monitor climate change, scientists say in this week's Science.

Pallaoor Sundareshwar, an atmospheric scientist at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in Rapid City, and an international team of environmental scientists say that the country needs a nationwide monitoring network to assess how emissions are changing and the environment is responding.

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