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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Huge underground water find boon for agriculture
A mining company in Western Australia has discovered a huge underground reservoir of water it says is enough to supply Perth for the next 4000 years.Anaconda Nickel Ltd yesterday said it discovered
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Govt urged to implement 1991 water accord
Four representative organizations of the farmers have demanded that the construction of Kalabagh dam be shelved as it has become a controversial issue and, instead, dams and water reservoirs be
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Traffic main cause of heat island effect
The effect of traffic in contributing to the "heat island phenomenon," in which summer temperatures soar to uncomfortable levels in central Tokyo, has been underestimated, according
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A nuclear solution to global warming ?
Nuclear power can play a significant role in preventing catastrophic global warming, according to a controversial article published in the Science magazine. William C. Sailor and Bob van der Zwaan,
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A free-market cure for global warming
One scheme for reducing the emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases that cause global warming is to set limits-and then let companies buy and sell the right to spew out the gases. This should cut
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Fate of the tuskers
Should nations who have done well for their elephants be punished for improper management by others?
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Fired up about ozone
Japan's Meteorological Agency says that the extensive forest fires of Indonesia are hastening the process of global warming by increasing ozone levels in the atmosphere. A study conducted by the
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JOHANNESBURG
Barely a week after passing a constitutional amendment that empowered Zimbabwe to seize land owned by the whites without paying compensation, the government has done a volte face after renewed
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Neptune s desiccation
The Earth's oceans are going to dry up and disappear in approximately a billion years. Anyway by then there would be no human beings to mourn the loss as much of the carbon dioxide would have been
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The child gives oceans a fever
The El Ni o of 1997 affected sea surface temperatures over the Indian Ocean