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
Using two different computer simulations of climate and the oceans, seprate research teams have concluded that a buildup of heat in the seas over the last five decades was almost certainly caused by
Greenhouse gases emitted due to human activity have caused a major increase in ocean temperatures over the last 50 years, two teams of scientists reported in studies to appear Friday in the journal
An Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concludes that it is human activity that has essentially contributed to global warming in the last 50
The impact of global warming is perhaps already upon the Himalayas. The 30.2 km-long Gangotri glacier, the second largest among the 6,500-odd small and large glaciers in the Himalayas and which feeds
The Bush administration has asked Congress to set aside, at least for a year, a provision of the Endangered Species Act that has been the main tool used by citizens' groups to win protection for
A team based at the University of Plymouth has launched an experimental wave energy device which is unobtrusive and cost-effective. The researchers, from a number of European small companies and
Over Rs 1.36 crore have been awarded to support two key biodiversity projects in India under the UK's Darwin Initiative for the Survival of the Species. The Darwin Initiative encourages collaborative
The head of the UN forum on global warning will outline a new plan on Thursday, permitting industrialised countries to use forests and farmlands as carbon absorbing "sinks" in a bid to jump start
The head of the UN forum on global warming will outline a new plan permitting industrialised countries to use forests and farmlands as carbon absorbing "sinks" in a bid to jump start talks to cut
The U.S. ambassador to the European Union said yesterday the EU had overreacted to the Bush administration's decision to quit the Kyoto treaty on global warming but said the spat could have positive
