Icy moves
David Vaughan and Chris Doake, glaciologists with the Bristish Antarctic Survey have published a paper which states that atmospheric warming has caused the disintegration of five ice shelves in the
David Vaughan and Chris Doake, glaciologists with the Bristish Antarctic Survey have published a paper which states that atmospheric warming has caused the disintegration of five ice shelves in the
<p>One would that if more than 1,000 scientists belonging to various countries and working for 10 years, pointed out the grave danger posed by increasing carbon emissions to the climate as well as the
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Natural sponges from the Mediterranean Sea are fast disappearing. Global warming and overfishing figure among the list of perpetrators of this vanishing act
With new evidence of the role played by aerosols, which act as localised coolants, scientists worry that their assessments of global warming may have been misplaced
Some very urgent steps need to be taken to ensure a less warm, more congenial world where the island and coastal peoples will live without fearing the Deluge. The workshop organised by the Centre
Global climate change is today a spectre which allows for no ostriches. Scientific data is piling up to indict human activity as the source of the current phase of warming. The debate is whether the affluent North or the developing South has been more r
one would think that if more than 1,000 scientists belonging to various countries and working for 10 years, pointed out the grave danger posed by increasing carbon emissions to the climate as well
Are the nations of the world serious in their much touted efforts to control greenhouse gas emissions? VINAYAK RAO examines the motives, moods and manifestoes in the run up to the forthcoming climate change conference in Geneva
The Berlin mandate incorporates certain pointers to what should be the elements in a future protocol to be adopted at the third Conference of Parties (COP-3) in 1997. The most important of these
The West fears that its efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions would be unproductive if the developing world did not follow suit
AS THE earth grows warmer, the battle between insurance and energy industries is heating up. The insurance executives have teamed up with international climate change experts. Around 60 big
The origin of greenhouse gas emissions is an important issue in relation to the need for devising policy options to minimise potential global climate change and its impacts. The best known of the
The diaolgue continues on how to free the earth from the clutches of greenhouse emissions
North Americans have literally had to face some very rough weather this year After having dealt with a sweltering summer with sky rocketing temperatures, they have just rubbed shoulder with the blizzard of the century! What could be the culprit behind t
RISING temperatures have left an indelible mark on the frozen continent - 8,000 sq km of ice sheets hundreds of metres thick have been lost in the past 50 years - as the mercury in this
As global temperatures seethe, the earth is no more a cool haven
Ice sheets in western Greenland have become thicker by about two m in the last 10 years. Kenneth jezek and his colleagues from the Ohio State University, contend that each year adds
THE best clues to the ongoing global warming debate can be had from the world's glaciers. Ice is melting at a much faster rate in the Alpine region since the '80s causing concern for