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 …
Land-use changes are transforming land-cover at an accelerating pace. These changes in terrestrial ecosystems also affect essential parts of our natural capital
Global warming and its impacts on climate have made climatologists study climate patterns of the past so that they can reasonably predict the weather of the future. Tree-ing analysis (dendrochronology), ice-core studies and historical records, lake sediments and speleothems (cave deposits) are used the world over to understand past climatic …
Taking the cue from Beijing's local authorities, who are sprucing up the capital city for the 2008 Olympics, China's national government has decided to give the entire country an environmental facelift. In keeping with this resolve, it is reportedly curtailing the construction and expansion of coal-fired power plants in major …
It's that time of the year again when international circles start buzzing with talks of global warming and changing climate. Although the ninth Conference of Parties (CoP-9) to the 1992 un Framework Convention on Climate Change is round the corner, the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol remains as uncertain as …
The earth is hotter than it has been in the past 2000 years and the largest ice shelf in the Artic has broken into two after having existed for 3000 years. But all that Russia does is procrastinate over endorsing the Kyoto Protocol
Motion and change are the sum total of a glacier's life. These massive ice-fields were for long considered a delightful compromise between the seasonal variations in snow level. However, the balance of nature has now melted into the past. Despite looking the picture of tranquillity while metamorphosing, glaciers are today …
the intense heatwave that baked much of Europe for weeks has convinced many people about the changing climate. "We have not seen such an extended period of dry weather and sunny days since 1870,' says Michael Knobelsdorf, a meteorologist at the German Weather Service. "These extremes are happening at short …
nowadays the us consistently steers clear of global warming mitigation measures. In one such move, the us Environmental Protection Agency (epa) rejected a petition seeking to regulate greenhouse gas (ghg) emissions from motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act (caa). The August 28 decision follows a controversial amendment to the …
even as Europe reels under an unprecedented heat wave, us President George Bush remains unconvinced about the harsh reality of climate change. On July 24 he launched a 10-year research programme, which will study long-term global climate variability and change. Environmental groups have termed it as a delaying tactic and …
a tiny kingdom of subsistence farmers in Africa is hungrier than ever. In January 2003, rainfall patterns of Lesotho altered suddenly, ushering in untimely frost and severe storms that destroyed most of the standing crops. “Frost in the summertime! We never used to see weather like this. We don’t know …
Some senior Democrats have alleged that the White House has doctored sections of a report authored by the us government's Environmental Protection Agency (epa) that contained references to global warming. The document is said to have been tinkered with to toe us President George W Bush's line that global warming …
with temperatures increasing and rainfall patterns changing, a new study paints a grim food security scenario for small landholders engaged in rainfed maize farming in Africa and Latin America. The research, by Columbia-based Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical and Kenya-based International Livestock Research Institute (ilri), predicts an aggregate decline of …
It's profit at any cost for ExxonMobil. The oil giant's shareholders voted overwhelmingly in Dallas, Texas, against proposals dealing with renewable energy and global warming. In fact, the company's chief executive and chairperson, Lee Raymond, stated that profits must take precedence. "We won't jump on the bandwagon just because others …
while thinking about Bangladesh, our minds conjure up images of jutting lungs, clammy brows, famished stomachs and overflowing rivers. The situation is about to become even sadder. Bangladesh's existing vulnerability to floods (due to its location at the confluence of three great rivers) will increase with temperatures soaring high, indicates …
function opencover(){ var popurl="html/20030430_cover.htm" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=450,height=500,scrollbars=yes") } America’s administrators have seriously slipped up. Today us foreign policy stands exposed in all its Neanderthal crudity. This comes as no surprise to those observing the superpower in the arena of global environmental negotiations although the mainstream media has done a remarkably good job …
in stark contrast to warming trends observed in many other parts of the globe, Greenland is significantly cooler today than it was 40 years ago. Meteorological data collected by Danish researchers shows that average temperatures in the southern part of the island fell by 1.29
new mummies: Ancient Britons started mummifying their dead at the same time as the Egyptians. British archaeologist Mike Parker-Pearson has found four Bronze Age bodies showing signs of mummification in the remote Scottish isle of South Uist. The 3,000-year-old bodies are believed to be the first ever discovery of mummification …
Global warming is set to change the investment climate in the corporate world. A 2003 report, Carbon Finance and the Global Equity Markets, identifies changing climate due to rising global average temperature as one of the factors that will influence a company’s competitiveness and profitability. Investors are beginning to revalue …
The UK aims to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by about 60 per cent by the year 2050 as a part of its efforts to curb global warming, according to a government energy white paper. But critics feel that the document fails to spell out the government's stand on producing …
