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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Bush-Cheney position preferred on global warming treaty
Americans favored Republican presidential nominee George W. Bush and running mate Dick Cheney's position on the global warming treaty, which placed tougher standards on U.S. industries and not on
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EPA and industry ban acutely toxic pesticide
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the chemicals company, Cheminova, have signed an agreement to end all use of the organophosphate pesticide ethyl parathion.The new agreement immediately
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Iron could cut down global warming
Iron fertilisation in the Southern Ocean has been found to increase the growth of algae on the water's surface, and consequently to increase the up-take of the greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide. The
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Germany announces new measures to cut greenhouse gas emissions and encourage renewable energy
The German Environment Minister has announced that the country will cut its oil dependence and be able to meet its Kyoto obligations on time."We shall make sure Germany maintains its top position on
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EU will miss Kyoto target, says new report
A research group report has said that the European Union will fail to meet its obligations for reducing CO2 emissions under the Kyoto Protocol because of a failure to implement the necessary
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Ancient bacterium is reported found
A bacterium that last flourished before dinosaurs tore flesh or the Appalachian Mountains emerged has been revived from a drop of fluid trapped in a crystal of rock salt for 250 million years, say
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Germany sees pioneer role on global warming
Germany announced new measures yesterday to ensure it becomes one of the few industrial nations to fulfil promised cuts in the "greenhouse gases" blamed for global warming, and urged the rest of the
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7 industrial giants promise to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions
DuPont,Shell,Alcan Aluminium and four other large companies have joined a growing list of businesses committing themselves to substantial voluntary reductions in releases of heat-trapping greenhouse
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Climate change led to mass extinction 34 million years ago
Severe climate changes 34 million years ago wiped out 90 percent of all tiny sea creatures living along the Gulf Coast in the United States, scientists said on Wednesday. Until now, researchers had
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Seven leading firms form new climate change partnership
Seven major international corporations yesterday formed a new partnership for cutting greenhouse gas emissions using market-based methods, even before a possible political settlement is negotiated at