UK weather expert criticises govt on global warming
A senior British meteorological official accused government ministers yesterday of undermining the country's efforts to combat global warming by making simplistic and uninformed remarks about its
A senior British meteorological official accused government ministers yesterday of undermining the country's efforts to combat global warming by making simplistic and uninformed remarks about its
Developing nations urged the United States last week to return to international talks aimed at curbing greenhouse gases and not to unilaterally turn its back on global warming. "It is a bad and
Green political parties from around the world vowed yesterday to launch a boycott against multinational oil companies such as Exxon Mobil in an attempt to rescue world climate change talks. Meeting
For two decades and counting, with a growing mix of fascination and concern, scientists have been measuring big changes in the environment around the North Pole. These include a chilling of the high
Australia said on Sunday the international community had to start a new process for cutting global greenhouse gases following last month's decision by the United States to reject the Kyoto treaty on
For petitioners in the high court case on vehicular pollution in Mumbai, this week could mark the beginning of the end. On Monday, almost a year after the V.M.Lal committee submitted its
The Australian government indicated that it would not ratify the Kyoto agreement on climate change, drawing immediate criticism from a global meeting of environmental activists. Environment minister
In a bid to curb air pollution, the use of catalytic converters and diesel particulate filters has been made compulsory for all diesel and petrol-run vehicles in Bangladesh from June 2002. Steps
Renewable energy certificates find currency in Europe
Technologies exist to arrest global warming. But the political will to implement them is missing
Changes in the climate could cost the world more than US $300 billion annually, predicts a report by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP). The report predicts that by 2050 the losses caused
Bush s position is immoral and contemptous, but so is our inability to tell him he is wrong <br>
Using two different computer simulations of climate and the oceans, seprate research teams have concluded that a buildup of heat in the seas over the last five decades was almost certainly caused by
Greenhouse gases emitted due to human activity have caused a major increase in ocean temperatures over the last 50 years, two teams of scientists reported in studies to appear Friday in the journal
An Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concludes that it is human activity that has essentially contributed to global warming in the last 50
The impact of global warming is perhaps already upon the Himalayas. The 30.2 km-long Gangotri glacier, the second largest among the 6,500-odd small and large glaciers in the Himalayas and which feeds
The Bush administration has asked Congress to set aside, at least for a year, a provision of the Endangered Species Act that has been the main tool used by citizens' groups to win protection for
A team based at the University of Plymouth has launched an experimental wave energy device which is unobtrusive and cost-effective. The researchers, from a number of European small companies and
Over Rs 1.36 crore have been awarded to support two key biodiversity projects in India under the UK's Darwin Initiative for the Survival of the Species. The Darwin Initiative encourages collaborative
The head of the UN forum on global warning will outline a new plan on Thursday, permitting industrialised countries to use forests and farmlands as carbon absorbing "sinks" in a bid to jump start