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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Australia greenhouse moves boosts LNG prospects
Australia said yesterday it would not begin mandatory greenhouse gas emissions trading ahead of an international market and would avoid measures that would hurt the multi-billion dollar liquefied
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MIT's pollution-cutting device nears completion
It sounds like something out of an old sci-fi movie. But the plasmatron, a device under development for several years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, may one day help reduce
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Scientist finds a watery un-frozen North Pole
Oceanographer James McCarthy made startling discoveries during a recent cruise of the Arctic Ocean: there was no ice in the North Pole, just open water. Not to worry, says the National Aeronautics
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Preventing global warming through IT
In the United States, some people have come to realize that IT also has the effect of reducing greenhouse gases and have begun drawing up measures aimed at using IT to fight the greenhouse effect.
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Planting new forests can't match saving old ones in cutting greenhouse gases, study finds
A new study has cast doubts on an important element of a proposed treaty to fight global warming: the planting of new forests in an effort to sop up carbon dioxide, a heat-trapping gas.The research
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Maldives, India concerned over global warming
Maldives President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom and Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee reviewed bilateral ties and expressed concern over threats to the atoll nation from global warming. Both
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UN opens online discussion on how best to bring Africa into Kyoto Protocol
Work on including African nations in efforts to reduce climate change via the Clean Development Mechanism is intensifying, with the UN Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) hosting an online
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The hottest year yet in Britain
Scientists at the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia have confirmed that 1999 is likely the warmest year yet for the UK. Although the summer of 1999 was not exceptionally
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MOPE now eyes gas operated vehicles
Embarrassed by failing to deliver the Euro-I micro buses, Nepal's Ministry of Population and Environment officials are mulling over the possibility of importing gas-operated micro buses into the
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Employers body urges delay to climate tax
The Confederation of British Industry, the employers body has called for a year's delay in implementing the climate change levy to allow time for amendments. Digby Jones, CBI director general, said