State of the Climate in Asia 2024
<p>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
Climate Change
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Treeless forest
How shrimp cultivation turned a mangrove forest into a saline desert
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Dealing with waste
On the 10th anniversary of the Basel Convention, member states reiterate the need to minimise the generation of hazardous waste
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Climate changes
According to scientists at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL), near Oxford, UK, the Sun's field has more than doubled in the last 100 years, while its total magne tic flux has risen by a factor
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Shell launches internal carbon emission market
Royal Dutch Shell, the oil group, launches an internal market to reduce carbon emissions today in an effort to combat climate change and promote energy efficiency across its businesses. The move,
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NASA admits that La Nia is a part of a global warming trend
NASA scientists now believe the pattern of cool temperatures in the Pacific ocean known as La Ni
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Experts
Poor nations should focus on water security: Developing nations should make eforts to ensure continuous water supply to provide 'water security', according to experts in drinking water management.It
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Role for World Bank in pollution fight
The World Bank has started a venture designed to help create a market for buying and selling rights to release pollutants that have been blamed for global warming. Bank officials said Tuesday that
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World Bank floats green fund
The World Bank on Tuesday launched the first global market to reduce carbon emissions in an effort to promote the transfer of environmentally friendly technology to developing countries.The creation
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France unveils plan to fight global warming
France unveiled a programme to fight global warming yesterday but environmentalists said they were worried the measures would not be implemented. The government adopted
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Changing notions
Who were the first people to use the alphabet? Semitic people of Egypt, says a fresh discovery