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 delayed
'Silica Hypothesis' addresses atmospheric CO2 decrease during ice ages and discusses implications for slowing the rise of atmospheric CO2.Increasing amounts of silica in the ocean may be removing
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Greenhouse gas blowout
A decade of economic growth has helped Australia's greenhouse gas emissions blow out to more than double the targets set under the Kyoto international agreement.According to the 1998 National
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Climate feels the Sun's effects
Recent reports that global warming is caused "mainly by the Sun" have been dismissed by leading scientists. The reports claimed that research by the Euroepan Space Agency (Esa) and others showed that
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Greenhouse target painful for economy
Australia will suffer economic pain as it attempts to meet greenhouse targets, the nation's environment ambassador told a parliamentary committee reviewing the Kyoto Protocol. Dr Ralph Hillman said
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An iron key may unlock greenhouse
Australian scientists, looking for ways to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, have dumped 10 tonnes of iron in the ocean off Antartica. The iron caused giant blooms of marine
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Cabinet approves plan to cut emissions
The Canadian cabinet has approved a $500-million plan to combat global warming that goes one-third of the way to meeting the emissions-reduction targets it agreed to in Kyoto, Japan, three years
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Senators doubt progress on global warming plan
Several Republican senators expressed strong concerns that talks to flesh out details of a global-warming treaty signed by the administration in 118 would never produce a document that the senate
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Too much summer in the city
As cities grow, they become hotter, more humid and - in summer - less tolerable as places to live and to work. Although meteorologists have recognised the "urban heat island" phenomenon for decades,
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Report on corporate initiatives to reduce greenhouse gases
Several U.S. companies are taking concerns about global climate change seriously and launching voluntary programs to measure and reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, according to a report released
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Developing countries face Kyoto impact
A global warming pact reached by a U.N. conference will have significant but varied economic impacts on developing countries, even though they have no emission targets, Australia's Bureau of