U.S. move improves chance for global warming treaty
In a shift that is likely to brighten prospects for a global warming treaty, American negotiators at talks have said the United States would be willing to limit its use of forest projects to reach
In a shift that is likely to brighten prospects for a global warming treaty, American negotiators at talks have said the United States would be willing to limit its use of forest projects to reach
As the world's politicians grapple in The Hague with the daunting task of curbing climate change they can draw encouragement from an unlikely source. Business no longer presents a monolithic front
The World Commission on Dams has spent two years gathering data on 1,000 of them, soliciting the viewsof governments and non-governmental groups. This week South Africa's Nelson Mandela unveiled the
After the worst UK floods since 1947, a new survey reveals that the vast majority of the public believes that global warming is to blame. A nationwide survey commissioned by the WWF and UK NGO, the
U.S. Energy Department researchers issued a report yesterday detailing how the country could cut greenhouse gas emissions without wrecking the economy and at the same time wean itself from fossil
Four in five leading UK companies are doing almost nothing to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, according to a survey published yesterday. The survey by Business in the Environment (BiE) showed
How should reasonable people react to the hype and controversy over global warming? Judging by recent headlines, you might think we are already doomed. Newspapers have been quick to link extreme
While Governments and scientists still debate climate change, Inuit tribal members on Banks island in the far northern Canadian Arctic are already convinced the world is getting warmer.The evidence
To Inuit living in a tiny community on the edge of the Arctic Ocean, climate change is not an abstract concept but a tangible phenomenon that is altering their lifestyle and culture. In Sachs
The European Union publicly rejected a controversial U.S. plan on global warming gases yesterday, dismissing the proposal as a "free gift" to the world's largest polluter. The EU move surprised U.S.
This paper addresses the impacts of climate change on forest fires and describes how this, in turn, will impact on the forests of the United States.
Special editions of the 6th Conference of Parties (CoP-6) to the United Nations Framework Conference on Climate Change (UNFCCC), The Hague, The Netherlands, 13 - 24 November, 2000.
The human tragedy that will unfold as a result of the Sardar Sarovar dam has to be mitigated
Speculation is rife about the misuse of such technologies
The world s most feared virus, Ebola, makes a comeback in Uganda
Britons are becoming more aware of the risks and consequences of global warming following the country's most severe flooding for 50 years, the World Wide Fund for Nature said yesterday. A survey by
Cracks emerged between the United States and Europe yesterday over how to check global warming, threatening U.N.-sponsored talks aimed at implementing a 1997 deal to cut emissions of greenhouse
The world's small islands, predicting a grim future of rising seas, hurricanes and typhoons, called on industrialised nations yesterday to accept their moral duty to cut emissions of greenhouse
lessons taught by snails and crabs : If you think that global warming is some far-off problem for future generations to worry about, consider what George Somero has to say. As action director of
The scientific consensus about the effects of global warming is getting increasingly glommy. A draft report by the United Nations sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), an