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 …
Three green groups have filed a suit in a US district court alleging that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is dawdling over their 1999 petition on the use of the Clean Air Act to curb vehicular pollution. The EPA is not doing enough to protect the environment, contend environmental pressure …
Global warming is bad news for hayfever sufferers. Trees and grasses are sprouting earlier, exposing hayfever sufferers to longer spells of sneezing and itchy eyes, reports a British phenological survey. The research, sponsored by the Woodland Trust, monitors the occurrence of nature's events in a changing environment. It shows that …
sri lanka is all set to introduce a legislation to facilitate the country's first carbon trading exchange programme. The programme aims to include projects that reduce greenhouse gas (ghg) emissions and seeks to trade in the resulting emission reduction credits. ghgs are responsible for climate change and global warming. At …
poor people invariably bear the burden of development. A recent study is another testimony to this fact. It indicates global warming has led to more malaria in East Africa
president Bush may now be compelled to reconsider his climate change policy. The most comprehensive study conducted in the us about the potential greenhouse impacts details how major water problems could evolve over the next 50 years in the western parts of the country. Many people have heard about the …
This report seeks to describe the context and process of global climate change, its actual or likely impacts on health, and how human societies and their governments should respond with particular focus on the health sector.
WORLDWATCH INSTITUTE . USA A study conducted by the Worldwatch Institute has found that distances between the sources and destinations of food in the US and elsewhere in the world has grown by as much as 25 per cent. Researchers fear this reliance on a complex network could leave many …
wildfires that scorched parts of Indonesian forests in 1997 spewed as much carbon into the atmosphere as the planet's biosphere absorbs in a year. This claim has been made by researchers of uk-based University of Leicester. According to them, the forest fires released about 2.6 billion metric tonnes of carbon, …
populations of many fish may lose genetic diversity even if fishing were to be stopped now, claim researchers from the University of Washington, usa. The findings are alarming. Losing diversity of key genes would render fish populations less productive, and unable to adapt when faced with challenges like global warming, …
with sea temperatures increasing, the world's coral reefs are once again facing threat as shown by intensive bleaching. Data from a new information system, called ReefBase, shows that 2002 is the second worst year for coral bleaching after 1998, when a very strong episode of the El Ni
I remember how I first learnt about global warming. It was in the late 1980s. My colleague Anil Agarwal and I were searching for policies and practices to regenerate wasted common lands. We quickly learnt to look beyond trees, at ways to deepen democracy, so these commons - in India, …
future commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are likely to be among the most contentious issues at the eighth climate conference of parties (cop-8) to be held later this month in New Delhi. Several industrialised countries, including Denmark, Canada, Japan, Norway and the uk have indicated that they want to …
a nail-biting climax to the closely contested German elections saw the Gerhard Schroeder-Joschka Fischer led Social Democratic Party-Green coalition emerge victorious. Schroeder's Social Democratic Party (sdp) and Fischer's Green Party won 306 of the 603 seats in Parliament. The Christian Democratic Party (cdu)/Christian Social Union (csu), in alliance with the …
Tucked away in the latest means of implementation draft is one line that has not yet generated much interest here in Jo'berg: "Eliminate unilateral trade sanctions used to reinforce the environmental agenda.' Yet, the acceptance or rejection of this one line could indicate whether the world
Global warming could tip the Earth into a completely new climate state in which cycles of freezing and thawing are switched off, assert two Belgian scientists. If true, this would crash the hopes of all those escapists who peddle another ice age as a reason for not worrying about the …
