State of the climate in Asia 2023
Asia remained the world’s most disaster-hit region from weather, climate and water-related hazards in 2023. Floods and storms caused the highest number of reported casualties and economic losses, whilst
Asia remained the world’s most disaster-hit region from weather, climate and water-related hazards in 2023. Floods and storms caused the highest number of reported casualties and economic losses, whilst
The indigenous people of Alaska could become the first global warming refugees as their frozen homeland goes through the quickest defrost since the end of the last Ice Age, some 12,000 years ago. The
In a United Nations conference's final hours, the United States and the European Union worked out a modest deal early on Saturday to inch ahead in the international efforts to put a cap on global
Fresh from visits to Canada's Yukon Territory and Alaska's northernmost city, four US senators said that signs of rising temperatures on Earth are obvious and they called on Congress to act.
As the first sings of winter push into the Northeast, researchers have some good news for fair weather fans
The European Union, the heavyweight in the fight against global warming, will push for mandatory cuts in emissions after the Kyoto protocol expires in 2012 despite fervent opposition from the United
The Kyoto protocol to cut greenhouse gases goes into effect two months from Thursday and industrialized countries like Canada and Japan find themselves with emissions embarrassingly beyond their
Major coastal cities like Mumbai are certainly feeling the effects of global warming, with the phenomenon now seen as a cause of floods and droughts across the world. This is the consensus
The Eskimos, or Inuit, about 155000 seal-hunting peoples scattered around the Arctic, plan to seek a ruling from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights that the United States, by contributing
China, widely regarded as the world's biggest potential environmental disaster, is talking up a new
The 12-day United Nations conference on climate change that began in Buenos Aires (Argentina) on December 6 assumes significance for several reasons. For one thing, it is the last such global meet