State of the Climate in Asia 2024
<p>The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing
Climate Change
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Scientists working on comprehensive climate survey
Hoping to help break a political deadlock on global warming, a U.N.-sponsored gathering of scientists is working on the mostcomprehensive report yet on climate change blamed on air pollution. The
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Scientists stop light, hold it, let it go
Researchers in US say they have slowed light to a dead stop, stored it and then released it as if it were an ordinary material particle. The achievement is a landmark feat that, by reining in
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Global warming debate heats up in Shanghai
Scientists from 150 governments have begun a four-day meeting in Shanghai to try to agree on what evidence of global warming should be used to set global environmental
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Transporters demand probe on fuel adulteration
Transport entrepreneurs called on the Nepal government to investigate what they termed 'widespread petroleum adulteration' and strictly implement existing pollution standards, and announced a series
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Greenhouse effect well targeted
International meteorological experts and government representatives from nearly 130 countries began a four-day conference yesterday in Shanghai to discuss changes in the global climate. By 2100, the
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Gangotri glacier receding alarmingly
The Gangotri glacier, one of the largest Himalayan glaciers, was receding faster than ever before, according to a recent report by scientists. Calling for an immediate ban on any type of human
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150 nations start groundwork for global warming policies
Scientists from 150 governments began a four- day meeting in Shanghai today to try to agree on what latest evidence of global warming should be used as the basis to set global environmental
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Antarctic ice discovery warms climate change debate
The discovery in a core of ancient polar ice of evidence of a sudden Antarctic temperature rise thousands of years ago has added fuel to the debate on global warming.The find, by scientists working
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Discovery of cloud 'parasol' sheds light on global warming
A team of researchers led by Professor Teruyuki Nakajima at the University of Tokyo's Center for Climate Change has discovered that a "parasol" effect of minute particles in the air and clouds cools
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Better the devil you know
Will George W Bush as US president be better than Al Gore for the global environment?