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
Global climate change may depress fish stocks in a sector already struggling with overfishing and rising consumption, marine scientists said yesterday. "One of the big challenges is the relationship
One more feather was added in the field of hydel generation, when Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal dedicated the 22.5 MW Ganvi hydel project to the people coiinciding with the
Plans for New Zealand to embrace climate change policies will hurt the country's substantial forestry industry, a report commissioned by the forestry sector and the NZ government said today. While
As a mark of gratitude to a place that gave refuge to numerous polish survivors of the World War II, Poland has "gifted" Rs 2.4 crores to Jamnagar to help the city boost its drinking water supply.
Nations in the Himalayan region are at risk of a massive earthquake that could devastate large urban areas in Nepal, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Bhutan, a study published in the renowned American
In Tokyo the average number of days with sub-freezing temperatures decreased by 95 percent over the course of the 20th century, reflecting the advance of global warming, according to the
A new data analysis shows that the atmosphere redistributes as much heat from the tropics to the poles each year as would be produced by a million of the world's biggest power stations, generating
The US government's lead scientific advisory body said that it will reconsider 'The National Academy of Sciences' report,released in July, on automobile fuel efficiency after automakers objected that
The 1997 Kyoto Protocol on global warming seemed headed for dustbin history when the Bush Administration declared last March that it was pulling out. Then in July, Europe led a coalition of nearly
The Japanese government finds itself in the middle of a tug-of-war between the Bush Administration, which has rejected the Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gas reductions and the European Union, which
