Nepal has made significant efforts towards low-emission development, using government tools to encourage finance flows towards climate action. However, achieving its ambitions will be difficult given current
An estimated 3.5 billion tons of carbon dioxide, a major greenhouse gas, could be removed from the atmosphere by using farmland and forests to absorb it, a U.S. Energy Department researcher said. The
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions as called for by the United Nations Kyoto Protocol would cut Britain's GDP growth rate, economists said. 'Under the protocol growth would be slowed from 2.4 percent
California lawmakers are looking at limiting greenhouse gas emissions, a move automakers call a veiled effort to tighten fuel economy standards and push gas-guzzling sport utility vehicles off the
Ministers left The Hague after a two week meeting that charts a course for global action on biological diversity through 2010. Representatives of 166 countries agreed detailed guidelines on access to
Lakes in the Himalayas are filling so rapidly because of rising temperatures that they could burst their banks within a decade, sending walls of water crashing down into valleys, the United Nations
More than 40 lakes high in the Himalayas, formed from rapidly melting glaciers, are expected to burst their banks in the next five years, sending millions of gallons of water and rock cascading on to
The Kyoto protocol will fall far short of its goals to cut greenhouse gases because of the pullout by the United States and possible foot dragging by Canada, but it is still a pact worth fighting
For months now the world's major powers have twiddled their thumbs politely as they waited for Canada to stop its endless agonizing over whether to ratify the Kyoto protocol on global warming.
Over the past 50 years, the rocks of Earth's continental crust have warmed in concert with the warming of the oceans, atmosphere and ice, says a team of Michigan and Canadian researchers. "Our
Global warming is causing birds to start breeding and singing earlier in the year, plants to flower sooner, frogs to spawn more quickly and a wide range of other ecological changes to happen around
