The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
India's total energy requirement has doubled over the last three decades: from 147.05 million tonnes of oil equivalent (mtoe) to 437.69 mtoe. I t's of course well known that indiscriminate burning of hydrocarbon fuels causes much global warming. According to several press reports, several Europeans died of oppressive heat last …
Dhaka warms up: Bangladesh has experienced its shortest winter in a decade and scientists suspect global warming to be the cause behind this. Media reports quoted Taslima Imam, a meteorologist in the country's Meteorological Department, pointing out that winter in tropical Bangladesh normally starts on December 1 and lasts till …
thanks to a new us study, the science of climate change may no longer be abused by nations to shrug off responsibility of reducing greenhouse emissions. Scientists from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have produced the first clear evidence of human-produced global warming in …
on february 16, the Kyoto Protocol to combat global warming became law, binding industrialised nations to reduce by 2012 their greenhouse gas (ghg) emissions to 5.2 per cent below the 1990 levels. A flexible trading mechanism for emissions provided for in the treaty also opens up opportunities for developing countries …
the use of combine harvesters in India for rice and wheat is generating millions of tonnes of crop residue every year. To dispose the waste, farmers usually burn it. This causes significant loss of nutrients in the soil and destroys its microbes, besides adding to greenhouse emissions, a study by …
the area hit by severe drought worldwide has increased from nearly 12 per cent in the 1970s to 30 per cent in the early 2000s, according to scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (ncar), Colorado, usa . Almost half of that change is due to global warming rather …
The reality of global warming was reaffirmed in two major incidents in West Asia recently. While Saudi Arabia (sa) decided to sign the Kyoto Protocol, the global treaty to fight climate change, the United Arab Emirates (uae) witnessed drastic weather changes: first ever snowfall, heavy rains and unusual chill. sa …
with Russia's ratification of the Kyoto Protocol, the treaty to cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is back on track. But, what collective action can be expected in the future to combat climate change? At the Tenth Conference of Parties (cop-10) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (unfccc) …
the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (unesco) has been asked to include Nepal's Sagarmatha (Everest) National Park (snp), along with two other natural sites in Belize and Peru, in its Endangered World Heritage list due to the effect of global warming on them. Temba Tsheri Sherpa, the youngest …
China has disclosed data pertaining to its greenhouse gas (ghg) emissions. The information was part of a report China Initial National Communication on Climate Change it submitted to the un F ramework Convention on Climate Change. China said it emitted 2.6 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide, 34.29 million tonnes of …
Japan's environment ministry has proposed a new carbon tax to cut carbon dioxide emission and enable the country meet the requirements of Kyoto Protocol, a global treaty to fight climate change. Who will pay how much of the "environment tax' would vary with the kind of fuel. Processors and importers …
vapid cure is better than prevention. That's the us' policy on global warming. The us has now devised a new strategy to deal with the second most prevalent greenhouse gas in the atmosphere
• Queen Elizabeth has reportedly expressed serious concern over the US policy towards global warming in a communication to UK prime minister Tony Blair. She has asked Blair's office to pressure the US in this regard. Her concerns were triggered after observing the effect of climate change on her estates …
Antarctica has mostly cooled over the last 30 years. But this trend is likely to rapidly reverse, according to computer simulations of the us National Aeronautical and Space Administration (NASA). The study indicates that the South Polar region is expected to warm during the next 50 years. At present, depleted …
the Kyoto Protocol on global warming is just a step away from becoming an international law. On September 30, 2004, a major hurdle was crossed when the Russian cabinet approved the treaty and sent it to the lower house of parliament, the Duma, for approval. The Duma would take up …
THE Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has decided to ratify the Kyoto Protocol (it seeks to stabilise greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere). That should soon propel the languishing pact into force, making it international law, once he has sought the Russian Duma's approval (see Almost there). But the pact would …
for the first time, scientists have found a direct relationship between global warming and the evolution of contemporary wildlife. The scientists from us-based Stanford University have published their findings in the September 7, 2004, online edition of the journal PloS Biology. The scientists conducted a genetic analysis of two species …
Russian deputy prime minister Alexander Zhukov has asked president Vladimir Putin to extend till December 15 the deadline for an official report on the Kyoto Protocol on global warming. This has come as a setback to enthusiasts of the protocol. Putin was to receive the report in August. But in …
