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 climate of despair
With the US still skeptical about the 1997 Kyoto Protocol to cut carbon dioxide emissions and curb global warming and the 83 other signatory nations still wrestling over the details, the EU was
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Shot in the arm for global warming
Australian scientists have come up with a vaccine that could help slow global warming by eliminating the methane released by cows and sheep passing wind. Australia's pastures are its second largest
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Vaccine to fight global warming
Australian scientists announced they had come up with a vaccine that could help slow global warming by eliminating the methane released by cows and sheep passing wind. Australia's pastures are its
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Global warming has Bush on the hot seat
In mid-March, George W. Bush made a stunning reversal of a campaign pledge to limit emissions of carbon dioxide, a culprit in global warming-and immediately found himself on the hot seat.
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EU affirms Kyoto goals but hints at compromise
The European Union insisted there would be no change in its aim of reducing greenhouse gas emission targets or any renegotiations of the Kyoto Protocol on curbing global warming, despite confusing
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Vaccine to reduce global warming
Australian scientists today announced they had come up with a vaccine that could help slow global warming by eliminating the methane released by cows and sheep passing wind, reports DPA for
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US falls out of sync on global warming
The news that the US was withdrawing from the 1997 Kyoto Protocol governing greenhouse gases was hardly surprising, albeit disappointing. US president George Bush had made no secret of his skeptical
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US plans substitute for Kyoto treaty
US deputy secretary of state Richard Armitage said the US will come up with a substitute plan for the Kyoto treaty on global warming by July, Japanese media reported on
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Scientists find key to long life
A common hormone based mechanism seems to regulate the ageing process in a variety of organisms, scientists said in a finding that raises the possibility that hormonal therapy could add decades to
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Warming warning
US President George W Bush's anti-green pronouncement not to honour the Kyoto Protocol to regulate carbon-dioxide emission, is no gaffe. It is yet another serious step towards rolling back