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
Rising sea levels and sea temperatures caused by global warming may devastate the economies of several small South Pacific nations over the next 20 years, according to an economic report released on
Get ready for El Nino again : The time to get ready for the next El Nino is now, before that disruptive weather event returns, a panel of United Nations scientists says.In 1997-98, the periodic
Greenhouse gases produced mainly by the burning of fossil fuels are altering the atmosphere in ways that affect the Earth's climate, and it is likely that they have "contributed substantially" to the
Democratic presidential nominee Al Gore accused Republican rival George W. Bush yesterday of ignoring the dangers of global warming as he took an environmental message to the Midwest. Citing a new
Greenhouse gases are making the world even warmer than anybody had predicted, and it is almost certainly the fault of humans, a draft report from an international climate group concludes. The report,
By means of orbiters, rovers and sample return missions, NASA's revamped campaign to explore Mars, is poised to untravel the secrets of the Red Planet's past environments, the history of its rocks,
Singapore biologists clone a crab enzyme to help detect bacteria. The discovery of this enzyme, called Factor C was particularly important since in its natural form it is used widely to detect toxic
Australia's drought-prone southern regions were likely to become drier over the next 50 years, a study of nine international global climate models has found. Australia's Commonwealth, Scientific and
A Japanese government plan to attain up to 3.7 percent of its total 6 percent carbon dioxide reduction target through forest absorption has been partly rejected, a document released on the Web site
In London, Paris and Berlin, governments have been licking the wounds inflicted by the recent oil protests. The governments survived the demonstrations but efforts to stop global warming-in
