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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- Clinton economist predicts small costs for warming treaty, meets skepticism
The costs of implementing the global warming treaty are likely to be small, the Clinton Administration's top economic adviser predicted, drawing bipartisan skepticism from a House subcommittee. Janet
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- Catastrophic collapse of Antarctic ice shelves
A substantial Antarctic 'ice shelf' could disappear before the end of the century, according to a report in a recent issue of Nature. Crucially, its collapse could happen almost without warning and
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- Climate pact unlikely to hurt US, panel finds
An international treaty to fight global warming and reduce heat trapping fossil fuel emissions would have little effect on United States employment and a fairly modest effect on energy prices,
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- Sumitomo in Russian deal
Sumitomo, the Japanese trading house is to help a Russian power generating group reduce its emissions to greenhouse gases. The deal could provide Japan with credit towards it own greenhouse gas
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- Global warming gets a 2nd look
In a major shift in the debate over global warming a growing number of major oil company executives are acknowledging that fossil fuels may be changing the world's climate and have begun focussing on
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- Careful cultivation gives cleansing fungus usable form
A joint research team from Osaka University, the University of Shizuoka and Takenaka Corp. has developed a technology using a fungus that secretes a potent degradative enzyme. These can then be used
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- Green law targets cuts in CO2 emissions
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 in Kyoto in Decemeber. The Environment
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Starch watch
Scientists at Oxford University, UK, have found a way to increase the starch content of potato, maize and rice. Starch is the single largest energy source in human diet. The researchers have
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Metallic lustre in food
The California-based Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced the formation of a study group to examine the need for national action following a series of reports in a Seattle newspaper
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Quakes: when and where?
Till date, there were no truly "reliable" methods of quake prediction. Most of the existing methods predicted quakes only a short time before they actually occurred. But recently, Panayiotis Varotos