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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Arctic study to check climate
Study of the influence the Arctic has on global climate changes will occupy Chinese scientists on China's first government-organized scientific investigation of the North Pole. The scientists will
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Global warming 'will devastate coral reefs'
Global warming will devastate the world's coral reefs early in the new millennium and could erase them from most of the planet by 2100, a Greenpeace-sponsored research paper has warned. Rising ocean
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Global warming favours some weather patterns
Scientists looking for signs of global warming should spend more time scrutinizing the earth's weather patterns, a new study suggests. Researchers who studied northern winters since mid-century found
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Ambassador versions Euro-I compliant
Hindustan Motors(HM) has informed that both the petrol and diesel versions of its Ambassador conform to Euro I emission norms. According to a related press release, this was achieved by upgrading
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Climate and the human factor
As evidence that the Earth's atmosphere is warming continues to accumulate, scientists are making slow progress toward an answer to the big question raised by the evidence : How much of the warming
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Government seeks anti-emission ideas
The Japan government wants to bankroll projects that will aid in curbing greenhouse gas emissions overseas in order to meet an international requirement to reduce Japan's carbon dioxide emission
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Another arrest in national crackdown on CFC smuggling
One of the largest seizures in Texas of the illegal chloroflourocarbon (CFC) Freon took place on 24 June. The seizure, and arrest of Richard Schmolke on charges of smuggling, is part of a national
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Contaminants almost always found in US streams
An investigation of 20 of the US's largest river basins has shown that streams in important agricultural or urban areas almost always contain complex mixtures of nutrients and pesticides. Reporting
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C.R. Renews bid to sell 'Carbon Bonds'
Costa Rica this week renewed its bid to secure a financial stake in the battle against global warming, following the flopped launch last year on the international market of its first batch of
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Economy, nice weather bring lower carbon dioxide levels
Japan's emissions of greenhouse gases decreased marginally in fiscal 1997, according to an Environment Agency report presented Friday to the Cabinet. The report shows Japan released nearly 1.38