Nepal has made significant efforts towards low-emission development, using government tools to encourage finance flows towards climate action. However, achieving its ambitions will be difficult given current
Nearly 600,000 women die of pregnancy-related complications every year. One woman in 30 who develop chronic, debilitating problems, dies. Each year, nearly 3.4 million infants die in the first days
Shrimp farms in Latin America produce a quarter of the three million tonnes of shrimp consumed worldwide each year. Consequently, shrimp farmers are destroying the mangrove forests to make shrimp
Americans wake up to a vital need of the human body: sleep
Thirteen Fortune 500 companies representing oil, automakers, utilities and other big industries have said they will join a campaign to rally support to fight global warming.Bucking many smokestack
President Clinton urged the building industry to join a national campaign aimed at cutting energy consumption in new houses in half over the next decade. Clinton's challenge came at the formal launch
A study published in Nature magazine by climatologist Michael Mann and colleagues from the University of Massachusetts, may help melt away any lingering doubt about global warming. The scientists
The environment ministry will shortly announce its decision to ban use of chloro-fluro carbons (CFCs) from the refrigerator manufacturiang sector from 2002.
This paper explores the potential implications of climate change for the use and management of water resources in Britain. It is based on a review of simulations of changes in river flows, groundwater
UK's child haemophiliacs are to be given genetically-engineered clotting agents to remove any risk of their contracting Creutzfeltd-Jacob disease (CJD), a government spokesperson announced
Very soon, two satellites will be launched for measuring the changes in Earth's gravitational force due to mass changes equivalent to 1 cm of water over a quarter of a million square kilometres. The
