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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Bid to discover new plants and animals
Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) would launch a five year project next month to locate yet-undiscovered plants and microorganisms from India's vast reserves of flora and fauna. Though India,
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Global warming rising faster than predicted
A new study on globe warming trends projects that global mean temperatures and sea levels will be rising over the next century at faster rates than previsouly predicted. The study from the PEW
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New study shows global warming rising fast
A new study on global warming trends projects that global mean temperatures and sea levels will be rising over the next century at faster rates than previously predicted. The study from the new
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99% of plans to destroy US wetlands are successful
Increasing incidence of serious flooding in the US is the result of wetlands development, according to the Sierra Club. "Wetlands act as natural sponges and where you don't have wetlands you have
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WWF urges Poland to reconsider damming the Vistula River
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and a network of Polish NGOs, have urged the government of Poland to suspend a large-scale damming project on the Vistula - one of the last big free-flowing rivers, and
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Climate change set to devastate world's coral reefs in 30 years
In 30 years the world's coral reefs will be devastated by warming tropical oceans which will "bleach" them white and eventually kill most of them, unless projected levels of climate change are
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SO2 emissions reduction may increase global warming
Reducing future emissions of sulphur dioxide in an attempt to mitigate the acid-rain problem may aggravate the global-warming problem, a University of Illinois professor says. "In the atmosphere,
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Global warming faster than forecasts
Study: A study on global warming trends projects that global meaan temperatures and sea levels will be rising over the next century at faster rates than previously predicted. The study from the Pew
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Global warming slowing the Earth
A study of changes in wind patterns linked to global warming over the past 50 years suggests they are slowing the planet's daily spin by around half a millisecond every century. These effects upon
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Not too late for world's coral reefs - biologist
The world's coral reefs are at risk of being devastated by the effects of global warming, but there was still time to save them, a leading biologist and coral expert said. "I don't