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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Global warming creates unstable Earth
The devastating floods and massive forest fires in the US are almost certainly connected, and appear to be the predictable consequences of global warming. Many scientists believe that that global
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Law fixed on greenhouse gas target
The Environment Agency has decided to submit a bill on attaining Japan's reduction target for greenhouse gas emissions to the 150-day regular Diet session beginning in January 2002, agency sources
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US heads for EU clash on accord
The US is set to clash with the European Union over the rules for cutting greenhouse gas emissions agreed as part of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on climate change. In a submission to the United Nations
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Uzbekistan to brace itself for climate change, experts say
The first national report on climate change has been published in Uzbekistan. It was prepared as part of the "Uzbekistan-study of climate change in the country" project with financial support from
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Emission cuts seen not hurting economy
Tackling the climate-change problem will only result in a minor cooling of what is expected to a be a red-hot economy over the next 10 years, two new studies prepared for the Canada government has
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Tropical forest fires blamed for carbon-monoxide jump
Huge forest fires in the tropics may be a contributing factor to global warming, according to a study carried out by the Meteorological Research Institute. In addition to smoke and soot, the fires
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Industrial consortium seeks ways to cut greenhouse gas emissions
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Energy Laboratory has joined forces with seven companies to launch a new industrial consortium that will support research on carbon sequestration, a
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Faster, cheaper...splat
The planet Mars has claimed another victim. After days of trying to make contact with Mars Polar Lander, an unmanned probe that was supposed to have touched down near the planet's south pole on
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U.S. acts to tighten protection of wetlands
The Clinton administration proposed new rules to protect environmentally sensitive wetlands from development, a response to what administration officials called a recent rash of destruction.
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Government enforces complete ban on second-hand cars
The Bhutan government has banned the import of all second hand cars, regardless of origin, with immediate effect to control environmental pollution. A press release from the Cabinet Secretariat