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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Droughts might speed climate changes
Droughts caused by global warming could set off a biochemical process in northern soils that would release large amounts of carbon dioxide into the air and possibly speed changes in the climate,
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Canadian climate shows continuing warming trend
Amid concerns that global warming is making itself felt in the Arctic, Canadian climatologists said on Wednesday that temperatures across the country were above normal in 2000 for the eighth
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Tracking phosphate to study global warming
Advanced technologies and methods are helping scientists take a new look at one of the Earth's most abundant elements - phosphorus - to better understand how it cycles through soil, sea and living
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Canadian climate shows continuing warming trend
Amid concerns that global warming is making itself felt in the Arctic, Canadian climatologists said on Wednesday that temperatures across the country were above normal in 2000 for the eighth
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Canadian climate shows continuing warming trend
Amid concerns that global warming is making itself felt in the Arctic, Canadian climatologists said on Wednesday that temperatures across the country were above normal in 2000 for the eighth
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Group pins hopes on practical plant
A fast-growing plant, kenaf, may soon flourish in greenhouse-gas control if an environmental group's plan bears fruit. Spurred by the plant's capacity to absorb large amounts of carbon dioxide, the
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Fate of Kyoto Protocol depends on business
The Kyoto Protocol, adopted in 1997 at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, is deep in political turmoil. After a U.N. sponsored conference in The Hague collapsed climate
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UK ponders deep greenhouse cuts
The UK government is examining the consequences of slashing greenhouse gas emissions by more than half. The Environment Minister, Michael Meacher, told a Parliamentary committee he had instructed his
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Non-EU nations circle wagons on climate
Top environmental negotiators from Japan, the United States and eight other non-European Union industrialized countries will hold secret talks in New Zealand in the middle of February, informed
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Germany's emission reduction targets seen ambitious
Germany's goal of a 25 per cent cut in carbon dioxide emissions by 2005 is under fire from both the energy industry and environmentalists, who argue it is too ambitious under existing