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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Bush offers alternative to Kyoto pact
US President George W Bush unveiled an alternative to the Kyoto climate change treaty he spurned last year, to the dismay of environmentalists who saw the plan as a gift to corporate America.
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Bush plan on climate displeases Tokyo
The Japanese environment minister expressed dissatisfaction with President George W. Bush's plan to combat global warming, adding that Japan would go ahead and ratify the Kyoto treaty rejected by
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Bush's plan won't do a thing to halt global warming
The pledge by the Bush administration to reduce greenhouse gas intensity by 18 percent may have sounded like a pledge to reduce greenhouse gases, the emissions that cause global warming. But the
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Poisonous gas
One person died after inhaling poisoning gas emanating from an underground sewerage system at the Indian Oil Corporation refinery in Haldia, West Bengal
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Bush gives his own answer to Kyoto
President George W. Bush was preparing to announce a plan calling for voluntary measures to slow but not halt the growth in emissions of heat-trapping gases linked to global warming, White House
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Asia keen on Bush-backed emissions credits trade
Power companies in Asia are hoping a new anti-global warming plan due from U.S. President George Bush will include support for emissions credit trading that could help fund cleaner energy across the
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Bush targets greenhouse gases
President George W Bush intends to offer a plan formally lining the environment and the economy in his first step toward developing a U.S alternative to the contentious Kyoto Protocol combating
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Predicting cancer
A simple blood test might be used successfully to predict the chances of a person contracting lung cancer. Researchers at Columbia University, New York, USA, used blood samples that had been
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Ban and beyond
Rather than prohibiting the use of polybags, India must prepare a wider plastic waste management policy
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Market without a window
The domestic market of biopesticides is the best showcase of their plight. It is virtually bereft of buyers and sellers. Moreover, the niche that biopesticides have carved for themselves seem to be overshadowed by Bt-based products. However, the export