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 …
DECREASED sea ice extent and thickness, an early onset of spring and an influx of insects and other animals from the south are some of the changes which Alaska natives have identified in personal testimonies on the impact of climate change, compiled by a Greenpeace report. While July, 1998, was …
THE 20th century is recorded as the hottest in at least a millennium, accord-ing to scientists. Studies of tree rings, ice cores, corals and historical records from Europe and China going back 1,000 years have been unable to find a hotter century, they say. Data show that July, 1998, was …
AWE-STRUCK tourists look down through the glass-bottomed boat only to be welcomed by an explosion of colours on the ocean-bed. Deep blue, bright yellow, red with streaks of white - colours of the corals. Welcome to Andaman's folly Boy island, where these corals draw a large number of tourists every …
WHEN it comes to greenhouse gas emissions, all our accusing fingers point towards the industries, blaming them profusely for reducing our once-green Earth to a sick, polluted planet. Having thus shifted our responsibilities, we carry on happily with our daily lives, without ever recognising our own share of the blame. …
Common garden earthworms ooze nitrous oxide, commonly known as laughing gas. As a greenhous gas, these exhalations could contribute to global warming, German researchers warned the recently-concluded meeting of the American Society of Microbiology in Atlanta, USA. Carola Matthies and her col-leagues from the University of Bayreuth in Germany were …
Taking the lead Developing countries must take the lead in proposing a system of entitlements, and North-South trading, which is both ecologically effective and socially just THE KEY ISSUES PREVENTlNG, global warming raises a very serious question for the world"s nations. It means putting a cap or a limit on …
MORE than 1,900 fires have devoured forests, green cover, shops, business establishments and homes in an area comprising more than 100,000 hectares (ha) in Florida in the US. The fires have been blazing away for more than a month less than 40 kilometres away from the legendary Disney World, the …
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is an independent scientific and technical body under the sponsorship of UNEP and the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) which provides the world with the 'science' of global warming. But with politics getting increasingly separated from science it is important to review what this …
A review of the positions of these three groups shows important differences in approach towards trading, as well as their approach towards the three mechanisms laid out in the Kyoto Protocol: Joint Implementation (Article 6), CDM (Article 12) and Emissions Trading (Article 17). There are important differences between the Free …
"Meaningful participation' is being defined in many ways, depending on the interests of the party involved. One such approach is to use the (cdm). • The purpose of the
The Costa Rican government has recently agreed to swap its tropical rainforest with a Nebraska-based power company, Tenaska Inc. The deal would mean that the us power utility would pay the Costa Rican government
The Kyoto protocol provides that industrialised countries can agree to invest in carbon efficient projects in each other's territory. The first such deal, post-Kyoto, has been struck between two most likely partners: Russia and Japan. Japan has to meet a difficult target of six per cent cut from 1990 levels. …
Article 17 of the Kyoto Protocol says that the conference of parties (COP) shall define the relevant guidelines for emission trading. But without waiting for the COP to define principles, emissions trading is starting to take place. • British Petroleum (BP) is going to use its sprawling oil company as …
Six months after the Kyoto meet, governments convened again to deliberate climate-change affairs. The United States led an attempt to set up a free market trading system which would enable the us to do zero at home and allow other developed countries to meet their emissions reduction commitments by paying …
W eather report 1997-98 : Fires engulf the bone-dry forests of Indonesia, tornadoes shred parts of the us , droughts sap the Australian outback, deadly storms lash China's coastal provinces, floods swamp the otherwise parched Ethopia, central Pacific islands receive a bumper harvest of seven cyclones, fires sweep across the …
India experienced the worst summer in fifty years which left more than 3,000 dead and millions soaking in sweat. The heat wave took its toll in almost every state in the country, the worst-affected being Orissa. According to a Met official, the south-easterly winds from the Bay of Bengal, which …
On Sunday, June 7, the meteorological office in Pune and the Indian Meteorological Department in New Delhi released a cyclone warning pertaining to Gujarat and the neighboring states. However, the Gujarat secretariat sent its first serious warning to the districts only on Monday night, barely 12 hours before the cyclone's …
The showers that hit Delhi on June 16 caught everyone, including meteorologists, completely unawares. They heralded the earliest onset of monsoon in 97 years. Expected to arrive by June 29, the rains were 13 days ahead of schedule. "After studying weather patterns, including cloud formation and precipitation, we came to …
this is not a hoax, it is very real, scientists have warned. Possibilities of invasions by alien pest species due to global warming are already giving them nightmares, apart from looming large as a threat to biodiversity across the planet. And most experts say that the situation will surely worsen …
