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 …
with no clear resolution on the contentious issue of forest convention in the final meeting of intergovernmental panel of forests ( ipf ) which met in February 1997, it was clear that the Rio + 5 summit of the world leaders would have to confront this proposal, pushed by a …
Mistrust, suspicion, North-South divide and a lack of commitment and political will on the part of the nation states to move towards a sustainable future were the key features of the second Earth Summit. Settling for the minimum possible... was the spirit of the negotiating nations. Further, entrenched economic national …
the latest thing that is brewing up a storm in Europe is a new self-cooling drink can which could cause global warming. Britain is now seeking new ways to ban the can. "If the can captures, say 10 per cent of the uk market by the year 2000, it would …
According to Canadian researchers, flooded wetlands emit greenhouse gases in large quantities. Worse, their studies have confirmed that the creation of reservoirs in wetlands unleash poisons into the human food supply. Several studies of reservoirs have suggested that they release large quantities of carbon dioxide and methane. But in the …
Even as we move towards the 21st Century the future appears bleak. Only the Earth knows what transpired at the Denver meeting but in the light of hindsight it is becoming all too evident that the North, the Europeans and their American cousins, went in with a coordinated stand to …
THE Centre has just cleared an international study called Indoex to look into the role of atmospheric aerosols (microscopic particles suspended in the atmos- phere) of Indian origin that may be causing global climatic changes. After the Rio Earth Summit of 1992, this effort on India's part is doscribed as …
AS THE host of the next meeting of the ON Convention on Climate Change, which is scheduled to be held in December in Kyoto, Japan is making last-ditch attempts to finish its homework on global warming. In the previous con- vention meetings, rich nations had agreed to start a series …
Even as symptoms of global warming are emerging around the world, a treaty to check emissions of greenhouse gases is facing stiff opposition from industries and employment agencies in the US, purportedly one of the most environment-conscious countries. With a global treaty scheduled to be framed in December, the pubic …
Tropical cyclones will become more fierce over the next few decades as a It of global warming. But mes are unlikely to become frequent or spread beyond tropics, according to a report prepared for the World Metrological Organization. The rt predicts that the intensity rclones will increase between nd 20 …
Satellite data has revealed that temperatures in the polar regions of both northern and southern hemispheres fluctuate markedly with the waxing and waning of the Moon. According to John Shaffer and his colleagues at the Department of [ogy at Arizona State University in rempe, average temperatures in the Axtic and …
The National Environment Commission (NEC) of Bhutan recently hosted a workshop on April 22, to train government officials "to understand the issues of climate change, how they fit in, and how they can contribute", said a NEC spokesperson. One of the objectives of the workshop was "stabilisation of the greenhouse …
A prototype solar device that produces enough hot air from the sun's rays to drive the turbines of a 50 kw power station has brought the prospect of cheap, solar-generated electricity a step closer. The solar energy collector has been successfully tested by Israeli researchers at the Weizmann Institute of …
Officials of 160 countries would soon meet in Bonn, Germany, to negotiate cutbacks in the emissions of heat trapping gases linked to global warming. Although most experts agree that these gases may cause a rise in sea levels, there is a difference of opinion about the scale and severity of …
we all are aware of how our warming planet has raised one formerly obscure specialty, climatology, to urgent prominence. There are more to come. Standby for changes to that enthusiasm of the biological scientists and the leisure industry, which we call 'parks' and 'reserves'. Such simple names may not suffice …
"A REVITALISED UNEP is essential to assist the international community in its efforts to reverse environmentally unsustainable trends," stated a declaration made by the governing council of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) at its 19th session in Nairobi from January 27 to February 7. The council, comprising ministers and …
THE Arctic is in the midst of a major climatic shift, warn Arctic scientists who have written to the US National Science Foundation (NSF) urging it to support a monitoring programme. No one knows whether it is a consequence of global warming or part of a natural climatic change. James …
lightning could be primarily responsible for global warming, as it produces a quarter of the planet's concentration of nitrogen oxides (nox), according to a recent study conducted by Colin Price and his team at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, us (New Scientist, Vol 153, No 2066). The high …
climatologists have always regarded carbon dioxide (co2) as dangerous since it is supposed to be one of the principle causes of global warming. But then co2 also performs the valuable function of enhancing floral growth. Rise in atmospheric co2 concentration and possible concomitant climate change has been seen to affect …
the us has evolved a multi-pronged stra-tegy to tackle the problem of greenhouse gas emissions calling for the setting up of emission targets, reporting them and budgeting emissions by deve-loping and developed countries. According to the us state department, the guidelines will help both the developed and developing countries in …
the phenomenon of global warming is surely not confirmed as yet. An area may have become warmer not because of an increase in global warming but because of certain natural variations. But whatever be the cause, it is time we took note. For Earth as a whole, 1996 ranked among …
