99% of plans to destroy US wetlands are successful
Increasing incidence of serious flooding in the US is the result of wetlands development, according to the Sierra Club. "Wetlands act as natural sponges and where you don't have wetlands you have
Increasing incidence of serious flooding in the US is the result of wetlands development, according to the Sierra Club. "Wetlands act as natural sponges and where you don't have wetlands you have
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and a network of Polish NGOs, have urged the government of Poland to suspend a large-scale damming project on the Vistula - one of the last big free-flowing rivers, and
In 30 years the world's coral reefs will be devastated by warming tropical oceans which will "bleach" them white and eventually kill most of them, unless projected levels of climate change are
Reducing future emissions of sulphur dioxide in an attempt to mitigate the acid-rain problem may aggravate the global-warming problem, a University of Illinois professor says. "In the atmosphere,
Study: A study on global warming trends projects that global meaan temperatures and sea levels will be rising over the next century at faster rates than previously predicted. The study from the Pew
A study of changes in wind patterns linked to global warming over the past 50 years suggests they are slowing the planet's daily spin by around half a millisecond every century. These effects upon
The world's coral reefs are at risk of being devastated by the effects of global warming, but there was still time to save them, a leading biologist and coral expert said. "I don't
Study of the influence the Arctic has on global climate changes will occupy Chinese scientists on China's first government-organized scientific investigation of the North Pole. The scientists will
Global warming will devastate the world's coral reefs early in the new millennium and could erase them from most of the planet by 2100, a Greenpeace-sponsored research paper has warned. Rising ocean
Scientists looking for signs of global warming should spend more time scrutinizing the earth's weather patterns, a new study suggests. Researchers who studied northern winters since mid-century found
Hindustan Motors(HM) has informed that both the petrol and diesel versions of its Ambassador conform to Euro I emission norms. According to a related press release, this was achieved by upgrading
As evidence that the Earth's atmosphere is warming continues to accumulate, scientists are making slow progress toward an answer to the big question raised by the evidence : How much of the warming
The Japan government wants to bankroll projects that will aid in curbing greenhouse gas emissions overseas in order to meet an international requirement to reduce Japan's carbon dioxide emission
One of the largest seizures in Texas of the illegal chloroflourocarbon (CFC) Freon took place on 24 June. The seizure, and arrest of Richard Schmolke on charges of smuggling, is part of a national
An investigation of 20 of the US's largest river basins has shown that streams in important agricultural or urban areas almost always contain complex mixtures of nutrients and pesticides. Reporting
Costa Rica this week renewed its bid to secure a financial stake in the battle against global warming, following the flopped launch last year on the international market of its first batch of
Japan's emissions of greenhouse gases decreased marginally in fiscal 1997, according to an Environment Agency report presented Friday to the Cabinet. The report shows Japan released nearly 1.38
Plans for a carbon emissions trading system have been announced by the CBI. Government, industry and environmental groups welcomed the move, but it is not being seen as a replacement for the
The rate of global warming and sea level rise may be slighly higher than predicted during the next century based on new information gathered by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, says a
A coalition of nearly 60 scientists on Monday told Congress to get serious about the global warming threat, saying even as industries admit the earth is warming many lawmakers deny the evidence.