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
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
A cow cloned from cells contained in mammary-gland fluid has successfully given birth in Hokkaido, resulting in the world's first offspring of its kind, officials involved in the project said
Climate change negotiators from the European Union and US are under pressure to salvage the deal on curbing greenhouse gas emissions that collapsed last weekend. Svend Auken, the Danish environment
Who could deny that the spectacular collapse of negotiations in The Hague on the Kyoto Treaty on climate change was a setback to those hoping to see concerted action on global warming? And yet,
A trio of conservative Republican senators yesterday rolled out a bill they said was the U.S. answer to the Kyoto global warming treaty rejected by the Bush administration. The legislation proposed
All large dams and natural lakes in the boreal and tropical regions studied in an investigation by the World Commission on Dams (WCD) gave off greenhouse gases, some even more than the thermal energy
Paleontologists have unearthed two exceedingly rare skulls of a titanosaur, finally putting a face on one of the world's most common, yet least understood dinosaurs. The skulls' discoveries in
The growth of emissions trading will not be derailed by the breakdown of the Hague talks on climate change last week, an advisor to the European Union on the subject told Reuters on Thursday.Carbon
The World Bank is taking the threat of global warming increasingly seriously as it warns of the dire consequences on Pacific nations. The World Bank is so concerned about climate change that it is
Business executives, government officials and environmentalists from all over the world converged on Rio De Janeiro under UN auspices to discuss rules for a new "environmental market" to fight global
With President Bush continuing to oppose international or domestic restrictions on gases linked to global warming, among the losers are energy companies that favor government action and have already