Branson to spend profits to combat global warming
British billionaire Richard Branson has committed to spend all profits from his airline and rail businesses, an estimated us $3 billion over the next 10 years, on combating global warming. The
British billionaire Richard Branson has committed to spend all profits from his airline and rail businesses, an estimated us $3 billion over the next 10 years, on combating global warming. The
scientists claim to have solved the mystery of links between El Nino and monsoons in India, a development that can lead to more accurate weather forecasts. This was published online in Science's
new research suggests that current estimates of phytoplankton growth in oceans and total carbon uptake, calculated through satellite imagery, might be overestimated. A new study, published online in
California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed into law, a ground-breaking global-warming initiative that slaps the us 's first-ever cap on greenhouse gas (ghg) emissions. This is in sharp
A new study by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (nasa) scientists has found that the world temperature is reaching a level that has not been seen in thousands of years. The study,
Projected anthropogenic warming and increases in CO2 concentration present a twofold threat, both from climate changes and from CO2 directly through increasing the acidity of the oceans. Future climate change may be reduced through mitigation (reductions in greenhouse gas emissions) or through geoengineering.
The source of the proposal was almost as remarkable as the idea itself.
leaders from 25 European and 13 Asian nations have adopted a declaration to fight global warming, among other things, at the sixth Asia-Europe Meeting Summit held at Helsinki on September 10-11,
With Qatar's seawater temperature touching 37
the world's top climate scientists, part of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (ipcc), have toned down the worst possible forecast for global warming over the next 100 years, claims The
Bringing down cow flatulence can reduce the presence of greenhouse gases. So believe a group of scientists from New Zealand and Australia, currently working on a multi-million dollar research
Hurricanes and other such events that disrupt energy supplies could provide a
oceans have cooled substantially during some of the warmest years in recent times, claims a study. During the years 2003 and 2005, which saw the highest global average surface temperatures in more
global warming can lead to more cases of plague, warns a recent study. Warmer springs and more moist summers may create conditions for Yersina pestis
The people of Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir, are grappling with the menace of locusts, the migratory grasshoppers. Experts suspect that the pests, Locusta migratoria, have migrated from neighbouring
California's state legislature has approved a bill to cut greenhouse gas emissions by sidestepping the Bush administration, which is still opposing tough greenhouse gas controls. The Global Warming
The oil slick off the Lebanese coast, caused by Israel's bombing of a power plant in mid-July, has begun sinking. Greenpeace's recent video footage showed dead fish at the sea bottom near Beirut,
There's a popular saying in western Rajasthan
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