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 …
global warming has resulted in an early arrival of butterflies in Britain. Scientists say that butterflies can now be spotted much earlier than it used to be over two decades ago. Thirty five of the estimated 60 species of British butterflies have been kept under observation. Some, like the red …
it is an affirmation that has shaken the automobile industry to its core. And it comes from the most unexpected quarters. Ford Motor Company recently confessed that its most lucrative range of sport-utility vehicles ( suv s) also cause the most serious environmental problems. This irrefutable statement comes after decades …
australia has for the first time expressed concerns over the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol that sets an international agenda to cut greenhouse gas emissions from 2002. It feels that political pressure in the us due to the presidential election in November would impede attempts to set a pace on …
According to researchers in the United States, the melting of the Greenland icecap may have caused a rise in the sea level during the last interglacial period around 125,000 years ago. At that time the sea level was about five metres higher than present levels. The origins of the water …
the Chilean government is considering a proposal made by an Australian oceanographer and a Japanese engineering company to fertilise the ocean with nitrogen. This would enhance the ocean's capacity to absorb carbon dioxide ( co 2 ), the greenhouse gas mainly responsible for global warming. The idea of piping nitrogen …
Japan's Meteorological Agency says that the extensive forest fires of Indonesia are hastening the process of global warming by increasing ozone levels in the atmosphere. A study conducted by the Agency's research institute at Tsukuba, east of Tokyo, sampled and measured greenhouse gases (GHG) emitted by the massive fires using …
A recent study funded by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has concluded that the gradual warming of the Arctic due to global climate change is proving a serious threat to the survival of birds in the polar region. This was stated by the WWF in a recently released …
At least seven people have been killed and over 6,000 people rendered homeless by massive floods caused by persistent torrential rainfall in northeastern Argentina. Social development minister Graciela Fernandez Meijide said that flood waters had washed away roads, downed electrical and telephone lines and threatened the water supply in at …
the effects of climatic phenomenon on human health may be more widespread that previously considered. Recent research, led by the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, has now linked El Ni
IF you are a twelve or thirteen-year-old school child in Kansas, USA one of your text-books is to be doctored by fundamentalists. The modified sections are on historical geology and palaeontology. Chapters on fossils, and oil and gas deposits are to be deleted. For the young of Kansas, the history …
THE great compressed natural gas (CNG)-diesel debate has touched new, abysmal levels of absurdity! Consider the choice before us. On the one hand we have the noisy, foul-smelling, poison-belching diesel engines that choke our cities and their citizenry in noxious fumes and clouds of suspended particulate matter. On the other, …
there is fresh evidence that the ozone layer over the uk and northern Europe is thinning. Scientists are worried by the depletion which was previously thought to be a problem largely confined to the southern hemisphere. Meteorological readings taken in the stratosphere over the Arctic show that in six of …
the giant us oil company Texaco Inc has quit from the Global Climate Coalition ( gcc ), a business group that opposes the Kyoto Treaty's approach to combat global warming. The gcc is also an aggressive critic of scientific studies linking global warming to emissions from fossil fuels. After Ford …
Global warming is accelerating faster than what climatologists had calculated. In 1995, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate change predicted that global warming would rise between 1
THE projected rise in sea level due to global warming and climate change is the kind of stuff that makes doomsday stories. The threat from such a rise has ominous portents for a large portion of the human population. Yet several scientists say that problems related to global warming may …
the much-talked about phenomenon of global warming was in the news recently following an unusual experiment. The British scientific weekly Nature reported that scientists from the University of Michigan and the University of Western Ontario, using hundreds of boreholes, found that heat radiates from the Earth's molten core towards the …
in recent years, the rainfall pattern in midsummer in the densely populated Tokyo and Yokohama in Japan has changed from gentle to tropical squall-type rainfall, involving sudden, violent winds with torrential downpours. Researchers at Tokyo University's Centre for Climate System Research believe it is due to the "heat island phenomenon", …
unbelievable, but true, ice crystals found inside the seafloor have more energy than all the world's fossil fuels put together. Before the 1970s, scientists did not even know that they existed under the sea. But several expeditions later, some startling findings have come to light about methane hydrate - a …
