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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Kyoto impact on Third World
A global warming pact reached by a UN conference will have significant but varied economic impacts on developing countries, even though they have no emission targets, Australia's Bureau of
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U.S. bases' PCB waste to be sent to Pacific isle
PCB-contaminated waste from U.S. military bases in Japan will be moved from Japan to Wake Island in the central Pacific by May 18 until a final decision on how to dispose of the waste is made, the
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Trust fund set up to help developing countries deal with POPs
The World Bank and the Canadian Government are to set up a Can$20 million (US $14 million) trust fund to help developing countries reduce the release of persistent organic pollutants
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Climate change may be causing continued ozone depletion over Arctic
A group of international researchers believe climate change may be a contributing factor to one of the most substantial losses of stratospheric ozone over the Arctic since the 80s. The researchers
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Suburbs may be swamped during icemelt
Melbourne's bayside suburbs could be flooded and the Sydney Opera House partly submerged within a century, according to the latest global warming scenario. An article in the Nature journal this week
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Glaciers reveal Southern Alps climate change
New Zealand scientists say that the glaciers of the Southern Alps are getting smaller, suggesting that the climate of the region shifted abruptly at the end of the last decade.An annual monitoring
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HIc! my car is drunk, so she won't pollute
If euro norms, catalytic convertors and unleaded fuel do not succeed in controlling auto-exhaust emission to desiderable pollution levels, there is still a way out say experts -using ethanol
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Global review of forest fires
The forest fires of 1997 and 1998 created enormous ecological damage and human suffering and helped focus world attention on what is an increasing problem.
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Date for observing Kyoto Protocol unlikely to be set at G-8 summit
In an apparent setback for environmentalists worldwide, top leaders of the Group of Eight major nations meeting in Okinawa next month are unlikely to set a specific target date for putting into
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Rich must hit greenhouse reduction targets
Minister for Environment and Forest T R Baalu on THursday said that developed countries must achieve their greenhouse gas reduction targets under the United Nations Climate Change Convention and also