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
Climate Change
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A basic discovery
Scientists find the 22nd amino acid
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Three brackets to Johannesburg
An inconclusive Bali PrepCom meet only takes confusion and procrastination to Rio 10
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A forceful endorsement
Kyoto Protocol gets a boost as Japan and <font class='UCASE'>eu</font> ratify pact
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Global warming threatens US parks, waters - green group
- Global warming is threatening many U.S. parks, forests, marine sanctuaries and wildlife refuges, and the federal government must act to protect them, a report by the environmental group Bluewater
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Cheap air travel adding to global warming woes
London publisher Peter Cole does some business in Cornwall but couldn't face the four-hour train ride to the southwest tip of England. This month, he flew down on a budget airline's new flight - at a
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Warming climate spawns disease epidemics
The changing, warming climate around the globe is triggering unprecedented numbers of disease outbreaks in both land and ocean based wildlife populations in habitats ranging from coral reefs to rain
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Global warming causes epidemics
Global warming could result in epidemics in plants, animals and humans, a study has said. The study, reported by the Wall Street Journal, is based on an analysis of existing data and suggests that
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Scientists see a heat-sick world
A wide ranging survey of world eco-systems shows that warmer temperatures have sparked a host of epidemics in plants and animals, suggesting that global warming could ravage the planet's ecology and
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US Senate climate warming hearing delayed until July
Senate Democrats said they would postpone a hearing on global warming until July, when Bush administration officials have promised to clarify if the president agrees with a recent report concluding
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In Alaska, hotter weather provokes startling changes
In Alaska, rising temperatures, whether caused by greenhouse gas emissions or nature in a prolonged mood swing, are not a topic of debate or an abstraction. Mean temperatures have risen by 5 degrees