Nepal has made significant efforts towards low-emission development, using government tools to encourage finance flows towards climate action. However, achieving its ambitions will be difficult given current
Two Minnesota men said they will attempt the first summertime crossing of the Arctic Ocean, a trek sponsored by the environmental group Greenpeace to show how global warming is melting the northern
Lord Oxburgh, who retires this year as chairman of Shell, is the antithesis of the stereotypical Big Oil man. At a conference in Barcelona, he told a room full of some of the world's most powerful
Twenty years after coming up with a new generation of chemicals to protect the ozone layer, the world is now confronted with the fact that these ozone-friendly substitutes for chlorofluorocarbons
Since the 1990s, the use of recycled paper has unfortunately reduced by half
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Biofuels can trigger climate change, claims study; Indian scientists sceptical
Dhaka warms up: Bangladesh has experienced its shortest winter in a decade and scientists suspect global warming to be the cause behind this. Media reports quoted Taslima Imam, a meteorologist in
The eu has forced the uk to retract its move to permit more carbon emissions to its industries (see Down To Earth,
From a distance, Southern Company's power station in rural Wilsonville, Alabama, looks a symbol of American indifference towards climate change : two huge chimneys belch smoke over a surroundign
A group of US states is seeking to put new pressure on the federal government on global warming with a court case that would force the regulation of carbon dioxide emissions. The case is the latest
