Signs are clear
Alaska is melting : Alaska is thawing, and much of northern Russia and Canada with it, and many scientists say that the warming of these cold regions is one of the most telling signals that the
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Antarctic may carry clues to climate trends
Antarctica may be an important predictor of climatic changes elsewhere thousands of years before they appear, researchers say. Analyzing, ice cores drilled from deep within glaciers, researchers have
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Japan to offer emissions plan targetting poor nations
The Japan government will propose at an international conference on global warming in November a plan to provide developing nations with incentives to cut greenhouse-gas emissions, government sources
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Japan investigates illegal PCB use
Japan has announced it is to begin a nationwide study on the storage of waste contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). The research will evaluate the extent of unregulated use and illegal
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British Petroleum to cut greenhouse gas emissions
British Petroleum Co Plc plans to pledge Friday to reduce its 'greenhouse gas' emissions by 10 per cent below 1990 levels within 12 years, the Washington Post reported on Friday.The newspaper said
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Action plan to achieve Kyoto cuts
Twenty two nations have agreed to implement an action plan to enforce global warming obligations set out at last December's Kyoto conference. The plan, agreed at an informal meeting of ministers on
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Global warming
A guessing game : Scientists have no idea how to predict the long-term effects of global warming, according to a powerful US research body. Dramatic improvements are urgently required if people
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Global warming and the shrinking sky blues
The sky is falling on us - or at least the top of it is. The height of the upper atmosphere has dropped by 8km since 1958, according to scientists at the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge. The
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A heated controversy
Whatever the future effects of carbon-dioxise emissions on the climat be, argument rages over how much the globe has warmed in past decades.
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A heated controversy
Whatever the future effects of cabon-dioxide emissions on the climate, an argument rages over how much the globe has warmed in past decades : a
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Greenhouse gases
The cost of cutting back : A new study from Worldwatch Institute concludes that greenhouse gas reduction will boost the economy by spurring innovation. If economists can't pin down the costs, how
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Technology is the key
With developed countries doing little to restrict global warming, a ray of hope comes from the development of favourable technologies
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Hope for iguanas
Misguided introduction of the Indian mongoose by farmers in Jamaica over 50 years ago had resulted in decimation of the reptile population in the island. The mongoose had been introduced in an
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Treating toxins
A cheap, effective technique to remove toxic polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) from contaminated soil has been developed in the US by scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee. The
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Troubled future
Babies infected at birth with a common sexually transmitted bacte rium Ureaplasma urealyticum , are more likely to develop asthma in later life. More than 50 per cent women in western countries are
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Blind vision
How do you locate an object even with eyes closed?
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Global havoc
Changes in the weather patterns due to El Ni o have resulted in a flood of natural disasters across the globe. Agriculture is the worst hit
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Target India
There is no preparedness in India against El Ni o, the Indian government does not even have an action plan
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NO CHILD'S PLAY
This summer's El Ni
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The Antichrist
El Ni o takes birth in the Pacific periodically to upset weather patterns globally