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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US presidential candidates on the Kyoto Protocol
US presidential candidates, predictably enough, harp on developing country participation but avoid mention of either per capita emissions or historical responsibility
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Three steps to leadership
A report presented at CoP 5 calls on the EU to stop waiting for the US and take leadership of the climate process
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Another crawl for humankind
The Kyoto agenda shuffled along at the recent climate change meeting in Bonn, but climate change mitigation was still not in sight
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Kyoto treaty not enough to stop global warning
Even full adherence to the Kyoto agreement to cut greenhouse gas emissions would have little impact on global warming, a leading Australian scientist said yesterday. Graeme Pearman, chief of the
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Prolonged talks may hit climate change tax
Business leaders have said that UK government negotiations with manufacturers on complex pollution agreement may not finish before the October deadline, plunging a proposed climate change levy into
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Arctic temperatures warmest in past four centuries, study says
Arctic temperatures in the late 20th century, which were the warmest in four centuries, have been accompanied by a variety of other environmental changes, according to a review paper published in
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Watchdog companies on trail of own emissions
A new report sponsored by the Pew Climate Center singles out 13 companies that are making voluntary efforts to track their greenhouse gas emissions. "You can't manage what you can't measure," said
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Falling sea level upsets theory of global warming
The 11,000 inhabitants of a tiny Pacific country that was predicted to vanish under water because of the effects of global warming have been given a reprieve because sea levels have begun to fall. In
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Deep sea offers clue to global warming
Analyzing sediments extracted from the cold, unfriendly depths of the Pacific Ocean, a Northern Illinois researcher has discovered that a vast undersea river dramatically affects the process by
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Price of progress 'is a landscape less resilient'
Evidence that modern agriculture is making the landscape vulnerable to global warming has emerged from a simulation of climate change at two sites in Britain. Using soil heating cables, spray nozzles