State of the climate in Asia 2023
Asia remained the world’s most disaster-hit region from weather, climate and water-related hazards in 2023. Floods and storms caused the highest number of reported casualties and economic losses, whilst
Climate Change
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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
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Report says U.S. won't reach alternative fuels goal
The United States will be unable to significantly cut its use of gasoline because alternative fuels are too expansive and not idely available, according to a report from the General Accounting
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Yes, you're right
it's getting hotter: Been feeling hot under the collar for the past few weeks? You're not imagining it. Most of south-eastern Australia has been baking in above-average temperatures, with some parts