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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Wooing the opposition
US diplomacy carries home another offering to please their Senate an agreement on energy and climate change with China
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Nowhere to go
What happens to living beings when climate change threatens even national parks and nature reserves
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Red heat
Droughts in Africa were far worse in the last millennium than is now
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Winged guests
global warming has resulted in an early arrival of butterflies in Britain. Scientists say that butterflies can now be spotted much earlier than it used to be over two decades ago. Thirty five
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Sweet hostage
Dutch minister Jan Pronk pays obeisance to the choleric demands of the US Senate
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Transalta, Hew in first transatlantic emissions deal
The first transatlantic trade in greenhouse gas emissions was brokered between two utilites, one German and one Canadian. Broker Natsource told Reuters that Canada's TransAlta Corp will purchase
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EU says fine nations that don't cut greenhouse gas
European Union environment ministers said yesterday that countries which fail to meet their international commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions should be made to pay financial penalties. The
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Panel proposes carbon tax on fossil fuels
The government of Japan's Tax Commission is to propose a carbon tax on gasoline, coal, natural gas and other fossil fuels as a way to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in an interim report to be
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ABARE warns of greenhouse reduction effect on some countries
The Australian Bureau of Agriculture Research Economics (ABARE) has warned the potential gains from the Kyoto Convention on Climate Change could be lost, without careful planning. ABARE has released
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Coke to phase out HFC use
Coca-Cola delighted environmental campaigners by announcing plans to phase out a refrigerant chemical that contributed to global warming. The company said by the time of 2004 Olympic games, it would