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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Lost in the deep woods
IT'S a bit less than a conspiracy, a bit more than a fetish. Five international organisations have made forest conservation their overriding priority. The gigantic United Nations bureaucracy based in
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Gasbagging
How good are the North's offers of joint implementation programmes with the South to cut the latter's carbon dioxide emissions?
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The steady principle of inconsistency
THE industrialised countries are back to their pre-Rio game of chess. They imposed their narcissistic environmental agenda on the economically atremble South by virtually bamboozling it into signing
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Repeat performance
The ozone layer over the Antarctica was nearly as severely depleted in November last year as it was in 1993, when it reached a record low, reveal several airborne and space sensors. According to
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Ozone loss has a silver lining
Studies reveal that falling ozone concentration could partly offset global warming
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Weathering El Nino
A warm Pacific current that is the cause of much human misery appears to be brewing again
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The power of the zephyr
The government is sowing the wind for energy, attracting investments with the promise of fiscal felicity.
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Treaty in a snarl
Noisy vehicles through the Brenner Pass is not only threatening environment but also causing hindrance to the Transit Treaty
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Playing it cool with climate warmings
THE Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Convention (IPCC) report has confirmed the basis of what many environmentalists have been posting warnings for some time: that the current global emissions of
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Black heart
The atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are increasing and a rise in global temperatures seems imminent