US promises steps to reduce greenhouse gases
The US has said it is taking significant steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions which cause global warming and urged developing countries to participate in the process without endangering their
The US has said it is taking significant steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions which cause global warming and urged developing countries to participate in the process without endangering their
A U.S. official yesterday said meetingsstarting next week in Germany on an international global warming accord should focus on ensuringcost-effective means to cut harmful greenhouse gas emissions.
Most of Japan's beaches may disappear in 100 years and its major cities could be flooded due to global warming, the WWF for Nature warned. Rising sea levels, caused by the planet's melting ice caps,
As stronger links emerge between illness and bad air, demands to ban diesel grow. But the real danger comes from outdated refineries and adulteration : a
Justin Marshall of the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, has done the unthinkable. He has taught mantis shrimps to distinguish between cubes painted with different polarisation
the earth underneath Greece and Turkey is fracturing like a pane of glass, increasing the possibility of further tremors in the region, says seismologist James Jackson of the earth sciences
A unique aquaculture-agriculture farming system has been developed by farmers at the Fulpur Thana in Mymensingh district of Bangladesh. They have developed this technique through their age-old
The exhaust gases that come out of the funnels of ships could be having a significant effect on the global climate, according to a report in the August 19 issue of Nature. Spyros N Pandis of Carnegie
A big chunk of Antarctica has been melting for thousands of years and will likely continue to melt until it swamps millions of miles (km) of coastland, scientists said. They said
Global warming is being blamed for an epidemic in British zoos that has wiped out 30 birds in recent months, believed to have been killed by an insect-borne tropical disease that attacks the brain.
It is possible to identify non productive clouds through satellite transmitted pictures, say Israeli scientists
To really understand what the chauka system has done to the pastures of the village and its neighbouring areas, it must be kept in mind that the village was declared drought-prone in the 1970s.
the Jammu and Kashmir government has formulated a Rs 1.36-crore project for the Hemis National Park, situated 40 km south-east of Leh. The national park derives its name from Hemis Gorpa
It is clear that the state does not function in India. Politicians and bureaucrats can go hang themselves
THE drought which hit the us recently may extend to the next year, John Kelly, director, National Weather Service has said. Dan Glickman, agriculture secretary, has declared Connecticut "a farm
Here is some great news for car manufacturers. Metallurgists at the University of Pittsburgh have developed lead-free steel that will allow carmakers to prepare for a new legislation in the US that
a recent article, in one of the dailies in Delhi reported that Bihar accounts for 90 per cent of kala-azar cases countrywide and 5.5-crore people are prone to it in 30 of the 56 districts of the
Australian scientists say ocean warming has increased rainfall over the Southern Ocean
around 150 people have succumbed to heatwave conditions in Chicago. New York recorded its hottest July in history with temperatures soaring above 32 degrees for eight days in a row. Officials
The Nature Conservation Society of Japan, a Tokyo-based non-governmental organisation, has released a research report on the effects of a dam at the mouth of the Nagara River in Mie Prefecture. The