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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As glaciers melt, talks on warming face chill
From observation posts high in the South American Andes, scientists this fall are pondering an extraordinary disappearing act: The great Quelccaya ice cap, home to some of the hemisphere's largest
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Firms warm up to climate treaty
Auto makers, utilities, oil companies and other businesses howled nearly a year ago when the United States agreed in Kyoto, Japan to reduce emissions from fossil fuels that have been blamed for
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Targets will be missed
Developed countries are set to overshoot their legally binding targets for the emission of climate-changing greenhouse gases by 15 per cent, according to a study by Wefa, a consultancy. This
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India may oppose US proposal at climate meet
Opposition by some developing nations, particularly India and China, may thwart year-long USA-led efforts to secure approval for an international treaty to limit increases in their greenhouse gas
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Steering out of gas
A global oil crisis is just a decade away, warn geologists
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Smuggler arrested
A MALAYSIAN national, Keng Liang Wong, was arrested in Mexico for smuggling exotic reptiles into the US and was charged for helping smuggle hundreds of live Komodo dragons, Timor pythons, Chinese
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Tree's a crowd
The loggers' chainsaws may not spell doom for tropical forest lands after all
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ET's phone on sale
Radio dish pieces which may have picked up some interesting evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence are on sale now. In 1977, search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) programme was carried
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A Brazilian Proposal
Industrialised nations have introduced a Clean Development Mechanism to meet their reduction targets. In the second part of her climate change report, NIKHAT JAMAL QAIYUM examines how these countries perverted the original Brazilian proposal to suit their
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Global warming
Scientist warns of eco degradation : Global warming will result in alarming rise of sea level and submergence of countries like Egypt, Bangladesh an Maldives in 100 years, according to Dr Pradeep