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
-
Euro II norms help Korean car makers
The imposition of Euro II norms enabled the Koreans to position their cars as technologically superior to the Maruti since they were equipped with mulit-point fuel injection
-
B'desh forest threatened
The world's largest mangrove forest, the Sundarbans, in southern Bangladesh faces the threat of destruction because of global warming, a report published said. In a draft report called "Considering
-
Something can be done about global warming
North Pole ice turning liquid may be the least of our problems. New studies have found that all Northern Hemisphere sea ice is melting at a rate of about 15 percent per decade and that the oceans as
-
Device to reduce car fumes
Melbourne scientists have invented an inexpensive device that they claim will reduce car exhaust fumes by up to 90 per cent.The device, which can be attached to the exhaust systems of normal petrol
-
Groups seek national vote on waste import
As Russia's Nuclear Power Ministry prepares to amend the law so that Russia can profit from the import of nuclear waste, 200 organizations are trying to force the government to hold a referendum on
-
Study says our brains read a face for its race
A specific part of the brain appears to react differently to faces of another race than to faces of the same race, according to a multicenter team of researchers. The team cautions, however, that the
-
Kyoto can be achieved without nuclear power or sinks
Industrialists, environmentalists and academics have submitted a joint proposal for Europe-wide action to tackle global warming, which would allow the EU to achieve its Kyoto target, but without the
-
Senators doubt progress on global warming plan
Several Republican senators today expressedstrong concerns that talks to flesh out details of a global-warming treaty signed by the U.S. administration in 1998 would never produce a document that the
-
Climate change and Bangladesh
According to BSS, climate change will have a big impact on the ecosystem and the biodiversity of Bangladesh. In the final draft report on "Considering Adaptation to Climate Change in the Sustainable
-
New view on the culprits of climate change published
New research suggests fossil fuel burning may not be as important in the mechanics of climate change as previously thought. NASA funded research by Dr. James Hansen of the Goddard Institute for