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 …
tornadoes, blizzards and floods are making the already miserable weather of Britain more unpredictable. Now, scientists are holding global warming responsible for the disasters, the most recent being the flash floods that ravaged many parts of the country. The weather crisis being faced by Britain is a result of mankind's …
the sixth conference of parties ( c o p -6) to the un Framework Convention to Climate Change ( unfccc ) is scheduled to be held at The Hague in the Netherlands from November 13 to 24. It might turn out to be the most crucial meeting of climate negotiations …
Special editions of the 6th Conference of Parties (CoP-6) to the United Nations Framework Conference on Climate Change (UNFCCC), The Hague, The Netherlands, 13 - 24 November, 2000.
Sometimes it is wonderful to have an opportunity to say, "we told you so." Particularly you feel strongly about the issue. A recent issue of Science (September 29, 2000) carries a comment from nine eminent us scientists and economists who argue that "equal per capita emission rights to the atmosphere" …
This study looks at the linkages between dams and climate change. It analyses the climate change legal regime as represented by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and its Kyoto Protocol and attempts to highlight the relevance of its provisions, decisions and processes to the planning, appraisal, design, construction, …
this is more evidence to prove that the Earth is warming up. Ancient ice cores drilled from deep inside Himalayan glaciers reveal that the last century has been the hottest period in past 1,000 years and the last decade has been the hottest ever. The drilling has yielded a highly-detailed …
Global warming literally threatens to swallow the small archipelago in the Indian Ocean and the worries are begin to show upon the people. In his recent state visit to India, Maldives president Maumoon Abdul Gayoom expressed deep concern over the threat to Indian prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee. India has …
the us is unlikely to achieve emission reduction targets as stipulated under the 1997 Kyoto Protocol due to large-scale economic growth. "Taking full advantage of the flexibility mechanisms is the only option left with us in order to meet the Kyoto target,' said Frank Loy, under secretary of state for …
allergy sufferers, beware: global warming could bring more hay fever, according to us government research that shows ragweed produces significantly more pollen as carbon dioxide increases. The ubiquitous weed makes nearly twice as much pollen now as it did 100 years ago and is likely to double its production over …
Scientists have developed a new way of tackling global warming by feeding cattle a daily dose of bacteria to stop them belching out methane as they graze. Cows, and to a lesser extent sheep, are responsible for nearly a quarter of the global emissions of methane, a greenhouse gas. Contrary …
Rights come with responsibilities. This is a lesson the Indian government, if there is such a homogenous entity, needs to learn. Relevant ministries recently refused to issue a clear statement opposing or supporting the transfer of nuclear energy technology from industrialised countries to developing countries under the global climate convention …
Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are at their highest in 20 million years, two British scientists have revealed. Paul Pearson, of the University of Bristol, in the west of England, and Martin Palmer, of Imperial College, London, reported in the magazine Nature that they used the evidence of plankton …
a clash between the us and the European Union (eu) over the rules for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, as agreed in the Kyoto Protocol in 1997, seems to be inevitable. The us in a submission to the United Nations has said that the Kyoto Protocol must recognise forests and agricultural …
global warming is responsible for melting more than 50 billion tonnes of water per year from the Greenland ice sheet, leading to a 59 centimetres rise in global sea level over the last century. This was stated in a National Aeronautical and Space Administration ( nasa ) study, which is …
global warming is all set to play havoc with the world's transport systems. In the coming years, it will lead to traffic jams and delay train services, says Anthony Astbury, a scientist at Britain's meteorological office. According to him, the atmospheric temperature will rise by a further 3
COMPUTER simulation models from the Canadian Meteorological Centre and the Hadley Centre in the United Kingdom have predicted a drastic change of us climate in the 21st century. Results of the report indicate that with the increase in temperature, severe summers and milder winters are expected. This, coupled with excess …
If some climate scientists are to be believed, planting forests in the far north may increase global warming. Growing forests do lock up carbon dioxide, but during winter they soak up solar energy that would otherwise have reflected by the snow-covered tundra. "It's a paradox. With northern forests, the reduction …
conservationists are a worried lot these days. In the past, when climate changed living beings could move from one place to the other. But now the situation is different. Global warming threatens to tear some protected ecosystems completely apart as species invade, flee, breed at odd times or go extinct …
