Can there be a green Bush?
Will the Bush administration bring about radical changes in environmental and climate policies of the US?
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Truly global woes
While UK faces increased incidence of floods, the US water resources are threatened by global warming
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Bush and warming
An international scientific panel sent up another warning flare about global warming last week, predicting droughts and floods, violent storms and rising seas as a result of an atmosphere made hotter
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Court stays spraying of cashew pesticide
The Masargod Munsiff Court has directed the Plantation Corporation of Kerala to refrain from spraying 'endosulfan' pesticide on its cashew plantations with immediate
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Climate changes could wreak havoc
expert : Temperatures in South Asia rising between 3 and 4 degrees over the next 50 years. Instances of malaria, especially in the less developed countries, trebling during the same period. That's
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Coral shows extreme temperature cycle
Reading chemical clues etched in coral up to 130,000 years old, geologists say it appears that El Nino and La Nina, the pulses of warm and cool Pacific waters that can lead to Indonesian droughts and
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Govts yet to take positive steps to check global warming
Governments all over the world are yet to take any positive step, including legislation, to put a check on the global climatic changes occurring due to increased emission of greenhouse gases and
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Opposition pledge to abolish climate tax
A Conservative government would abolish the highly controversial climate change levy on business energy use, the opposition party announced last night. The levy, which is intended to reduce
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EU frets over US line on global warming
The EU's top environment official warned she was concerned that the new US administration might drag its feet over an international agreement to combat global warming. Talks to limit the emissions of
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High ocean temperatures have led to cooling of US
The cooling of much of the continental US, the opposite effect of that experienced by much of the rest of the globe, has been due to higher ocean temperatures, say scientists.A team of researchers,
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Evidence that global warming is caused by humans gains strength
Global warming is occurring faster than previously thought, and the evidence that it is being cause by man is increasing, leading climate change experts have announced.The UN Intergovernmental Panel
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Energy from sea floor
Fuel cells powered by energy from the sea floor could indefinitely supply electricity to instruments used to monitor ocean curents and water temperatures, according to a report in the Environmental
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EU says worried by possible Bush stance on climate
The head of environment policy in the European Union said on Wednesday she was worried at the possible approach new US President George W. Bush would bring to an international agreement to combat
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Sweden sets tougher goal for CO2 emissions
Sweden said on Tuesday it had set a tougher goal for reduced carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and was considering tax hikes to set an example for global efforts to curb harmful climate
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Seashell search for global warming
Two British scientists have delved the depths of the oceans to produce evidence from the far-away past that points to out planet's near-term future as atmospheric carbon-dioxide levels climbs to
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Bush seeks delay in Climate Summit
President George W. Bush's new administration has asked for two-month postponement of the next UN climate conference, due to be held in May, a Dutch Environment Ministry spokeswoman
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U.N. reports that global warming may heap disasters on Africa
Africa may face more natural disasters if the world's main economic powers do not ratify a key protocol on climate change as soon as possible, the top United Nations environmentalist said Tuesday.
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Global Warming rate more rapid
Global warming could happen twice as quickly as previously forecast over the next 100 years, the most authoritative report yet produced on the science of climate change said on Monday. Global
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Auto firms' CO2 pact with EU lacks teeth
The voluntary agreement between the European Commission and vehicle manufacturers to reduce cars' carbond dioxide emissions is weak, unambitious and unenforceable, said a scathing study released by
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Global warming has been faster
UN: The earth's atmosphere is warming faster than expected and evidence is mounting that human activity is responsible, the United Nations Environment Programme said on Monday.The UN's