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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Study forecasts drier southern Australia climate
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
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CO2 plan partially rejected
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
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The Kyoto debate heats up
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
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Polluters plant rain forests to earn eco rain checks
As concern over climate change heats up, electrical utilities and other polluters are investing in tropical forests. By protecting existing forests or growing new ones, companies hope to use the
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Energy company sows trees in Tennessee
Almost 400 acres of trees have been planted in Tennessee by a Houston-based energy company that is replenishing forests in the Lower Mississippi Valley in anticipation of federal rules that may allow
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Cloud's role in global warming studied
If the current warming trend continues, don't depend on low-level clouds to come to the Earth's rescue, according to NASA researchers. A cloud's thickness and brightness influences how the planet
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Now Europe's biggest glacier falls to global warming
Europe's biggest glacier is about to disintergate. The mighty Breidamerkurjokull in southern Iceland is breaking apart and will slide into the north Atlantic in the next few
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Environment meeting yields climate strategy
Canada's environment ministers wrapped up a two-day meeting with a new plan to cut greenhouse gases. But Ontario rejected the plan, infuriating environmentalists and other delegates. The strategy is
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Yes, global warming did cause the floods
The floods that have ravaged Britain in recent weeks are the result of global warming, according to a senior government minister. In the first official admission that climate change was to blame,
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Global-warming 'loopholes' hit
The Clinton Administration is proposing "loopholes" in the global warming treaty that are so big the United States could get away with doing almost nothing to comply, environmentalists say. A key