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's ice sheet could melt first
The melting of Greenland's ice sheet is a bigger global warming danger than the melting of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, reseachers report in the latest issue of the journal Nature. Scientists fear
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Arctic warming signals dire straits for birds
Climate change could cut rare Arctic bird populations in half, according to a study released by the Worldwide Fund for Nature. Using climate models, scientists from the World Conservation Monitoring
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How Chile could help save the world and get credits for it
The rich waters off the coast of Chile could soon be producing even more plankton. In a bid to curb global warming, the Chilean government is considering a proposal by an Australian oceanographer and
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New route breaks the ice-North Eastern passage
A time-saving new shipping route connecting Europe to the Pacific may be navigable thanks to global warming, scientists say. The North Eastern Passage, which cuts through the Arctic waters along
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New, mean greenhouse gas appears
U.S. and European researchers have discovered a greenhouse gas with frightful characteristics--it is 18,000 to 22,200 times more powerful than carbon dioxide, and it has an atmospheric life estimated
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Climate change commitment real, G-8 ministers say
Despite their failure to set a unified deadline for the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gas emissions, environment ministers of the Group of Eight who met in Otsu at the weekend
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Wapda chalks out Rs 178 billion Sehwan Barrage, 2 projects' master plan
WAPDA has prepared an ambitious master plan for Sehwan Barrage Complex and two gigantic development projects for "Riverine area" and "Rainy/Thar Canals" which includes remodelling of Guddu Barrage at
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Environment confab kicks off in Kitakyushu
Delegates from 40 countries from the Asia-Pacific region on Sunday began discussing mutual cooperation and strategies to improve the environment at a one-day conference held in Kitakyushu,
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The big meltdown
As the temperature rises in the Arctic, it sends a chill around the planet. Back from a cruise to the North Pole aboard the Russian icebreaker Yamal, tourists told the New York Times that a 1.5-km
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NHPC, Sikkim govt sign pact to set up 2,198-cr project
National Hydroelectric Power Corporation Ltd has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Sikkim government to set up Rs 2,198 crore Teesta Stage-5 hydropower project in the Himalayan