State of the climate in Asia 2023
Asia remained the world’s most disaster-hit region from weather, climate and water-related hazards in 2023. Floods and storms caused the highest number of reported casualties and economic losses, whilst
Climate Change
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Greenhouse gases hit record levels in 2005: UN report
Levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere hit a record last year and are likely to keep rising unless emissions are radically cut, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) said in
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SE Asian nations take steps to tackle choking haze
Five south east Asian countries signed up to a series of joint measures aimed at preventing a repeat of the Choking haze that has blanketed much of the region for months, costing their economics
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Manmohan decries restrictive trade practices under Montreal Protocol
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has criticised the provision in the Montreal Protocol being used for restrictive trade practices. Hinting the developed world being guilty of such practices, he said,
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Heading off global overheating
Except to a few holdouts, the scientific case for the existence and dangers of global warming - that the climate is a changing, that human activities are largely responsible, and that the
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Impacts of biodiversity loss on ocean ecosystem services
Human-dominated marine ecosystems are experiencing accelerating loss of populations and species, with largely unknown consequences. We analyzed local experiments, long-term regional time series, and global
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Global warning
With the British Government issuing a report that indicts the US and China for activities that have resulted in a "natural calamity on the scale of world wars and the Great Depression of the late
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Emissions regime could feel the heat
Expanding the European Union's emissions trading scheme has been highlighted this week as a key mechanism in the drive to tackle global warming. Sir Nicholas Stern, former World Bank chief economist
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Report of the task force on the mountain ecosystems [environment and forest sector] for Eleventh Five Year Plan
A Task Force on Mountain Ecosystems for Environment and Forests sector for the Eleventh Five Year Plan (2007-2011) was set up by the Planning Commission, Government of India. The mountain ecosystems in this report include all the geographical limits of Himalaya and North-eastern states within Indian territory, collectively termed as Indian Himalaya Region (IHR).
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Impending ecological anarchy: Orissa will turn into a barren land!
The eastern Indian state of Orissa will turn to a mass of barren and desert like lands in another 150 years, warned Water Initiatives Orissa (WIO). Many parts of Orissa, specifically the western and southern uplands, have developed symptoms of desertification; they have further degraded from drought prone to desert prone areas.
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Japan hails UK report
JAPAN, the home of the Kyoto Protocol, on Tuesday welcomed a British government report warning of economic catastrophe if global warming goes unchecked, saying it would build global pressure for