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High tax for high polluters : If a vehicle is a heavy polluter, its owner should pay heavier taxes, a task force of Japan's Environment Agency recommends in a report compiled Wednesday. But the
High tax for high polluters : If a vehicle is a heavy polluter, its owner should pay heavier taxes, a task force of Japan's Environment Agency recommends in a report compiled Wednesday. But the
The death of coral reefs is expected to be one of the early symptoms of global warming. Research just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science may have uncovered the mechanism
Leaving a light on in a sleeping baby s room may actually be harmful
What keeps Jupiter and its plasma sheet in synchronous orbit
The Sri Lankan ministry of irrigation and power has decided to explore the possibility of harnessing wind potential to meet the country's growing demand for power. According to the minister for
The Delhi government is planning to approach the Supreme Court to permit autorickshaws and taxis that are 15 years' old and running on compressed natural gas (CNG) to ply in the capital. The
The climate change meeting at Bonn tentatively agreed to postpone resolution of issues
Did climatic changes in the Himalaya help the intruders in the Kargil crisis?
Did fires caused by the Aborigines drive creatures larger than humans to extinction?
Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) would launch a five year project next month to locate yet-undiscovered plants and microorganisms from India's vast reserves of flora and fauna. Though India,
A new study on globe warming trends projects that global mean temperatures and sea levels will be rising over the next century at faster rates than previsouly predicted. The study from the PEW
A new study on global warming trends projects that global mean temperatures and sea levels will be rising over the next century at faster rates than previously predicted. The study from the new
Increasing incidence of serious flooding in the US is the result of wetlands development, according to the Sierra Club. "Wetlands act as natural sponges and where you don't have wetlands you have
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and a network of Polish NGOs, have urged the government of Poland to suspend a large-scale damming project on the Vistula - one of the last big free-flowing rivers, and
In 30 years the world's coral reefs will be devastated by warming tropical oceans which will "bleach" them white and eventually kill most of them, unless projected levels of climate change are
Reducing future emissions of sulphur dioxide in an attempt to mitigate the acid-rain problem may aggravate the global-warming problem, a University of Illinois professor says. "In the atmosphere,
Study: A study on global warming trends projects that global meaan temperatures and sea levels will be rising over the next century at faster rates than previously predicted. The study from the Pew
A study of changes in wind patterns linked to global warming over the past 50 years suggests they are slowing the planet's daily spin by around half a millisecond every century. These effects upon
The world's coral reefs are at risk of being devastated by the effects of global warming, but there was still time to save them, a leading biologist and coral expert said. "I don't
Study of the influence the Arctic has on global climate changes will occupy Chinese scientists on China's first government-organized scientific investigation of the North Pole. The scientists will