Climate risk profile: Ethiopia
This profile provides an overview of climate risks facing Ethiopia, including how climate change will potentially impact agriculture and crop production, livestock, water resources and human health. The
Climate Change
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Hydel project pact signed with NTPC
The Himachal Pradesh government and the National Thermal Power Corporation(NTPC) have entered into a memorandum of understanding to construct and develop the 800 mw Kol hydel project in the
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Critical river report shelved
A report alerting state and federal legislators to potentially "fatal" environmental problems in the management of the Murray-Darling river system has been suppressed for more than a year. The
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Trojan fish?
A single genetically-modified fish is enough to invade and wipe out local populations of fish species. William Muir and Richard Howard of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, USA, injected
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Housing plan, at sea
An artificial reef could be the ideal habitat for threatened sea creatures
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Changing weather
Changes in climatic trends may be part of a decade long pattern known as the Pacific Decadal Oscillation
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Dolly, the cloned sheep, is expecting
Dolly is pregnant, and scientists at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh await the arrival with keen anticipation, although they are keeping the date secret. This will be the third time the world's
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Quirky "car free" day in Colombian capital
Residents of Bogota went to work on bicycles, roller-skates and even in horse-drawn carriages yesterday, as the city observed a day-long ban on the use of private cars as part of an
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Oceans will dry up
Researchers have predicted that all the oceans would dry off in about five billion years when the sun starts to burn up its fuel and grow bigger, enveloping Mercury and roasting Venus and the Earth.
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Researchers report faster rate of global warming
U.S. researchers report that data from land-based and satellite instruments indicate that the rate of global warming is accelerating. A Feberuary 22 press release by the National Oceanic and
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Only 1 billion years of oceans left
The Earth's oceans are going to dry up and disappear much sooner than anyone thought, in about a billion years, a researcher said. "The sun, like all main sequence stars, is getting brighter with