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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Global warming pact needs leadership
The scientific consensus about the effects of global warming is getting increasingly glommy. A draft report by the United Nations sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), an
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Texas pipeline bans gasoline additive MTBE
The Longhorn Partners Pipeline, the future operators of a planned 700-mile (1,130 km) pipeline that will bring gasoline and distillates fuels from the U.S. Gulf to customers in the Southwest, this
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Forests may help counteract greenhouse gas
Letting forests grow on abandoned farmlandand logging grounds may do more than beautify the countryside-they may be soaking up greenhouse gases blamed for global warming, scientists said on
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Industry group set up to promote emissions trade
Arthur Andersen, Credit Lyonnais and energy broker Natsource said yesterday they had jointly set up an industry group to promote trade in emissions certificates. The Emissions Market Development
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Poor countries face worst climate change - magazine
Countries that produce the smallest amount of greenhouse gases are likely to suffer the worst effects of global warming, a science magazine said on Wednesday. Researchers at the Tyndall Centre for
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Climate summit must look at Africa's plight - UN
African countries, which do least to fuel global warming but will feel its effects the hardest, must be given special consideration at next week's climate change summit, a senior U.N. official said
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Kyoto greenhouse gas goals face tough test in Hague
Three years after the Kyoto agreement to cut greenhouse gas emissions, negotiators will begin talks next week on how to give it some teeth. Some 180 nations will take part in the U.N. climate change
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Smoggy China must do more to curb global warming
China has stepped up efforts to alleviate choking smog in its cities, but should do more to cut the emission of greenhouse gases, believed to be a key cause of global warming, according to officials
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Scientists say global warming to speed up
UK scientists will sound a new alarm on climate change by identifying a feedback effect that could make global warming happen much more quickly than expected. The researchers from the Meteorolgical
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Carbon sinks unacceptable
A top environmental agency does not want "carbon sinks", where forests absorb atmospheric carbon dioxide, endorsed under a UN convention on climate change. Saksit Tridech, secretary-general of the