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 …
Bhutan could help absorb carbon dioxide (CO2) and curb global warming as greenhouse gas emissions by the country is reportedly insignificant. Results of a study on climate change conducted by two Danish consultants showed that in a completely forested area the per capita CO2 emission was 19.6 tonne, in a …
"Nitrogen enrichment is pushing us towards a weedier world,' says David Wedin of the University of Toronto, Canada. Burning fossil fuel releases nitrogen oxides, which ecologists believe could act as fertilisers and promote luxuriant growth of weeds. This shift in vegetation could hinder the earth's ability to moderate global warming, …
environmental commitments made by most nations at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, five years ago, have remained on paper even as carbon dioxide emissions soared and forests and animal species continued to vanish. These are the findings of a report prepared by the Earth Council, a Washington-based …
On the beginning of the world's first green party: It all began in 1970. The Tasmanian government had decided to build a major power station which would have drowned the magnificent Lake Peddar. The campaign against the government's decision was started by a group of Tasmanian environmentalists who contested the …
jorge Sarmiento and Corinne Le Quere of Princeton University in New Jersey, us, have observed that warmer oceans are more stratified and cause the ocean circulation system to slow down. As a result, they absorb much less carbon dioxide (co2)
heating of the planet can cause the dreaded dengue fever to rise to epidemic proportions. Simon Hales and colleagues at the Wellington School of Medicine in New Zealand believe that the occurrence of dengue fever in South Pacific islands could have been the result of regional climate changes, which depend …
in view of a recent discovery, the models used to estimate earth's response to climate change stand for a rethink. While studying the effect of marine life on global warming, scientists found that the role of oceans in carbon fixation had actually been overestimated. The new findings suggest that half …
it could take something as simple as iron supplements to combat the spectre of global warming. It was John H Martin, an ocean scientist who had first suggested that fertilising the seas with thousands of tonnes of iron compounds could result in the sudden spurt of marine plant organisms called …
spring reaches the northern hemisphere a week earlier than it did twenty years ago. Charles Keeling of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at La Jolla, California, us , has recorded a sudden shift in the seasonal cycle of the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide, resulting in the early arrival of …
David Vaughan and Chris Doake, glaciologists with the Bristish Antarctic Survey have published a paper which states that atmospheric warming has caused the disintegration of five ice shelves in the Antarctic peninsula, over the last 60 years. The breaking down of the shelves has taken place in the warmest part …
One would that if more than 1,000 scientists belonging to various countries and working for 10 years, pointed out the grave danger posed by increasing carbon emissions to the climate as well as the global economy, world leaders would take notice and initiate restorative action. Instead, they choose to either …
Global climate change is today a spectre which allows for no ostriches. Scientific data is piling up to indict human activity as the source of the current phase of warming. The debate is whether the affluent North or the developing South has been more responsible and who will be polluting …
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (ipcc) argument that current global warming "is unlikely to be entirely natural in origin' and that "the balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate' throws light on certain pointers. The chief human influence on climate is the general warming effect …
Some very urgent steps need to be taken to ensure a less warm, more congenial world where the island and coastal peoples will live without fearing the Deluge. The workshop organised by the Centre for Science and Environment drew up a proactive plan for South Asian countries. The plan emphasises: …
discussions on weather and climate change once made for those mundane, boring generalities that adorn undistinguished conversations. For the cognoscenti today, however, talking about climate change is savvy. But it is certainly much more than just an important item on the intellectual menu. It figures prominently on the agenda of …
one would think that if more than 1,000 scientists belonging to various countries and working for 10 years, pointed out the grave danger posed by increasing carbon emissions to the climate as well as the global economy, world leaders would take notice and initiate restorative action. Instead, they choose to …
the latest spinoff of the much-debated phenomenon of global warming is a bank account which aims to help combat the climatic problem. The Dutch-based Triodos Bank recently launched the Earth Saver Account in uk which aims to use the amount raised "primarily to finance renewable energy projects and energy projects …
At recent meeting in New York to discuss the upcoming special session of the un General Assembly in June 1997 - which will consider the development made on the recommendations of the 1992 Rio Conference - several environmentalists and experts expressed considerable disappointment at the lack of progress on the …
