Manure, Buses Seen Helping Curb Global Warming
Manure and buses are among promising areas for investment under a UN project in the Third World aimed at combating global warming, a senior UN official said. The scheme, part of the UN's Kyoto
Manure and buses are among promising areas for investment under a UN project in the Third World aimed at combating global warming, a senior UN official said. The scheme, part of the UN's Kyoto
Inuit indigenous peoples formally accused Washington of violating their human rights by failing to do enough to fight a thaw of Arctic ice undermining their hunting culture. "Climate change is
Manure and buses are among promising areas for investment under a U.N. project in the Third World aimed at combating global warming, a senior U.N. official said. The scheme, part of the U.N.'s Kyoto
Cutting the world's emissions of greenhouse gases would involve a shift away from the fossil fuels that powered the industrial revolution and provided cheap energy for more than a century. As this
Rising seas have forced 100 people on a Pacific island to move to higher ground in what may be the first example of a village formally displaced because of modern global warming, a UN report said.
Rising rates of deadly heat strokes, salmonella infection and hay fever across Europe are linked to global warming and should push governments to act faster on preventing climate change, the World
In December 1997, representatives of most of the world's nations met in Kyoto, Japan, to negotiate a binding agreement to cut emissions of "greenhouse" gases. They succeeded. The Kyoto Protocol was
Industrial nations should cut their carbon dioxide emissions as per the Kyoto Protocol as part of the efforts to keep global warming below dangerous levels so as to preserve the diversity and
Karnataka government has decided to operate eco-friendly buses, powered by electricity, in Mysore on an experimental basis from this December, state transport minister N Cheluvaraya Swamy said on
A delay in publishing the European Union's emission-trading plans for the five years starting 2008 is curbing trading, said a group that represents energy buyers and sellers. Nine of the EU's 25
Global warming appears to have triggered genetic changes in a species of fruit fly on three continents, a portent of how certain impacts of climate change may be rapid yet remain undetected. In a
Los Angeles, London, New York, Seoul and 18 other cities joined forces in a global warming project aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Launched by former President Bill Clinton's foundation,
Rare, motherof-pearl coloured clouds caused by extreme weather conditions above Antarctica are a possible indication of global warming, scientists said. Known as nacreous clouds, the spectacular
In a major move by Haryana government, seven sites for compressed natural gas (CNG) and piped natural gas (PNG) stations in Gurgaon have been approved. Eight sites have also been approved in
The Science and Technology Entrepreneur Park (STEP) at the Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur has developed 'laboratory scale technology' for extraction of polyphenol from green tea leaves,
Desperate times call for desperate measures. And a Nobel Prize-winning scientist has come up with such a measure to tackle global warming, by altering the chemical makeup of Earth's upper atmosphere.
California would become the first US state to impose a limit on all greenhouse gas emissions, including those from industrial plants, under a landmark deal reached by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
The World Bank put together the largest greenhouse gas deal ever, where European and Asian companies and others will pay two Chinese chemical companies $1.02 billion to reduce output of gases
US officials told a UN conference on climate change that their government was doing more than most to protect the earth's atmosphere. In response, leading environmental groups blasted Washington for
The impact of spiralling pollution on the planet poses a threat to civilisation just as catastrophic as much-vaunted weapons of mass destruction, Britain's top scientist warned. A man and a woman