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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Greenland ice cap is melting : A warming climate is melting more than 50 billion tons of water a year from the Greenland ice sheet, adding to a 9-inch global rise in sea level over the last century
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NASA scientists detect rapid thinning of Greenland's coastal ice
Scientists who want to monitor the state of our global climate may have to look no farther than the coastal ice that surronds the Earth's largest island. A NASA study of Greenland's ice sheet reveals
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At last in wonderland
Kerala s decentralisation programme is an example of the difference a strong civil society can make
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Swinging both ways
It is now a well-known fact that many fish and other aquatic creatures change their sex during the course of their lives. But the peppermint shrimps are different: even after changing their sex,
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Climatic loophole
Sinks can now be potentially identified as the most dangerous loophole for the environmental integrity of the Kyoto Protocol
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Warm situation
COMPUTER simulation models from the Canadian Meteorological Centre and the Hadley Centre in the United Kingdom have predicted a drastic change of us climate in the 21st century. Results of the report
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Australian greenhouse gas emissions shoot above 2010 target
According to Australian government figures released on 13 July there was a 16.9 % increase in greenhouse gas emissions between 1990 and 1998, already far surpassing the Kyoto Protocol target of an
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Global water resources: Vulnerability from climate change and population growth
The future adequacy of freshwater resources is difficult to assess, owing to a complex and rapidly changing geography of water supply and use. Numerical experiments combining climate model outputs, water
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Will Tehri dam undermine sanctity of Ganga?
After phony environmentalists and geologists playing to the tunes of the transantional anti-development lobbies, it is now the turn of the saffron brigade to take pot-shots at the Tehri dam,
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Research predicts summer doom for Northern icecap
The ice cap that stretches south in all directions from the North Pole is melting so fast that Norwegian scientists say it could disappear entirely each summer beginning in just 50 years, radically