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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Japan beaches under threat
Most of Japan's beaches may disappear in 100 years and its major cities could be flooded due to global warming, the WWF for Nature warned. Rising sea levels, caused by the planet's melting ice caps,
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The devil in diesel
As stronger links emerge between illness and bad air, demands to ban diesel grow. But the real danger comes from outdated refineries and adulteration : a
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Teaching shrimps
Justin Marshall of the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, has done the unthinkable. He has taught mantis shrimps to distinguish between cubes painted with different polarisation
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More tremors possible
the earth underneath Greece and Turkey is fracturing like a pane of glass, increasing the possibility of further tremors in the region, says seismologist James Jackson of the earth sciences
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Farming system developed
A unique aquaculture-agriculture farming system has been developed by farmers at the Fulpur Thana in Mymensingh district of Bangladesh. They have developed this technique through their age-old
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Sulphur in ships' exhaust gases
The exhaust gases that come out of the funnels of ships could be having a significant effect on the global climate, according to a report in the August 19 issue of Nature. Spyros N Pandis of Carnegie
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Antarctic ice sheet steadily melting, study finds
A big chunk of Antarctica has been melting for thousands of years and will likely continue to melt until it swamps millions of miles (km) of coastland, scientists said. They said
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Global warming wipes our penguins from zoos in UK
Global warming is being blamed for an epidemic in British zoos that has wiped out 30 birds in recent months, believed to have been killed by an insect-borne tropical disease that attacks the brain.
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Devils in the sky
It is possible to identify non productive clouds through satellite transmitted pictures, say Israeli scientists
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A long journey
To really understand what the chauka system has done to the pastures of the village and its neighbouring areas, it must be kept in mind that the village was declared drought-prone in the 1970s.