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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Venice likely to be flooded every day
St. Mark's Square in Venice could be flooded every day by the middle of the next century because of worldwide rises in sea levels, a leading flood control specialist was quoted as saying on Tuesday.
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Break occurs in Antartic ice shelf
A section of an Antarctic ice shelf as big as the District of Columbia has broken away from the continental ice mass, perhaps in response to decades of gradual warming in the South Polar region. The
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Going hungry
the Food and Agriculture Organisation ( fao ) has recently said that low global cereal stocks for a third year in a row could signal an imminent food crisis. This warning comes despite a good
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A quiver full of asteroids
There are more than 300,000 huge rocks in space, each waiting for a turn at targeting the Earth
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An uphill task
How do you define and measure sustainable development? A host of non governmental organisations led by the Switzerland based World Conservation Union are trying to evolve a new approach to do just that
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Dyslexic mind
To clarify whether dyslexia, a fairly-common disorder characterised by an unexpected low reading ability, involves the brain's defective processing of visual information, US-based National Center for
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Manpower?
Female hormones can boost your sperms
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Marine medicine
A messy little marine pest can protect us from cancer, claim US scientists
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Japan
The government is gearing up a national drive to cut greenhouse gas emissions in line with the agreement reached at the international climate-change conference at Kyoto in December last year.
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lanka getting hotter:
A recent analysis of the mean surface air temperature at 14 stations in Sri Lanka over the period 1961-90 carried out by T K Fernando and L Chandrapala of the country's Department of Meteorology has