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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Dzonga mountain to be biosphere reserve
Khangchen Dzonga, the world's third highest mountain, and its surrounding zones would be soon notified as biosphere reserve in order to protect ecology of the
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USA has warmest winter in 105 yrs
The winter of 1999 to 2000 has been the hottest ever recorded in the USA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has said, attributing the record to the effects of the La Nina
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Experts hail rehabilitation works under Sardar Sarovar project
The prestigious Club of Tokyo of water management experts from all over the world has appreciated the "excellent rehabilitation" works done under the Sardar Sarovar Narmada dam project in Gujarat, it
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Revised-NASA scientist predicts less climate cooling from clouds
Don't count on clouds to come to the rescue if the Earth's current climate-warming trend continues. That's according to new NASA research published in the October 1st issue of the American
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Debate rises over a quick(er) climate fix
A sharp new debate has sprung up among atmospheric scientists over where to aim efforts to stave off the prospect of global warming from the buildup of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the
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Global warming talks
Can they be saved : Efforts to inject life into the Kyoto Protocol on global warming enter a crucial phase as negotiators grapple with the toughest technical issues, their leeway tightly constrained
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An ant 'supercolony' poses riddle in U.S.
In a quirk of evolution and genetics, Argentine ants are overwhelming native California ants while forming what scientists believe may be the biggest ant colony in the world, stretching from San
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US heads for EU clash on Kyoto accord
The US is set to clash with the European Union over the rules for cutting greenhouse gas emissions agreed as part of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on climate change. In a submission to the United Nations
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Greener solution to cutting gases ?
Preparing for renewed international negotiations on cutting levels of heat-trapping gases that may be warming the climate, the United States is proposing that countries get just as much credit for
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Non-availability of kits hits conversion
As pressure builds on automobile users to use compressed natural gas as clean fuel, the shortage of CNG conversion kits and gas-filling statons is coming in the way, those in the business