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Checking Emissions

For the first time, the US senate has taken a step towards regulating carbon dioxide emissions
- 14/09/2002
- Down To Earth
Global warming causes extinction of species

Scientists warn a rise in temperature will reduce the habitable area in North America's mountains and cause a reduction in the number of mammal species.
- 30/12/1992
- Down To Earth
Methane on the decline

SCIENTISTS say the increase in the atmospheric concentration of methane -- a major greenhouse gas -- is fast levelling off (New Scientist, Vol 140, No 1991). Evidence of a halt in methane rise
- 14/12/1993
- Down To Earth
UNITED NATIONS

Over the next 50 years, harvests of staple crops like rice, maize and wheat may be reduced by one- third due to global warming. This has been revealed by a United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
- 14/12/2001
- UNEP
- - Agriculture
  - Rice
  - Wheat
  - Maize
  - Global Warming
  - UNEP
  - Uganda
  - Philippines
Sinking planks

Phytoplankton production could damage oceanic ecosystems
- 29/11/2002
- Down To Earth
In Court

infamous five: Eight US states and the city of New York are taking five of US' biggest power companies to court. Reason: they are some of the biggest contributors to global warming in the country.
- 30/08/2004
Tick with a bite

Global warming has led to rise in tick borne encephalitis cases
- 14/08/2001
- Down To Earth
- - Global Warming
  - Health
  - Encephalitis
  - Insects
  - Research
  - Diseases
  - Climate
Worst polluters

australians are the worst greenhouse gas (ghg) polluters in the industrialised world, a new analysis shows. Every Australian is responsible for 27.6 tonnes of ghg emitted, while every
- 14/10/2001
- Down To Earth
Ravenous climate

Global warming impacts rice yields
- 14/08/2004
Farming is cool

Agriculture lessens the effect of global warming, claims study
- 29/04/2006
- Down To Earth
Lightning seeds

Australia banks on forest power to light up towns
- 14/02/1998
- Down To Earth
Hot, but not bothered

A NEW finding by the scientists of the New Delhi-based Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) brings good tidings for Indian farmers. High levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the
- 28/02/1996
- Down To Earth
What caused Europe's heatwave?

The intense heatwave that baked much of Europe for weeks has convinced many people about the changing climate
- 29/09/2003
- Down To Earth
IN FOCUS

Even as symptoms of global warming are emerging around the world, a treaty to check emissions of greenhouse gases is facing stiff opposition from industries and employment agencies in the US,
- 29/06/1997
- Down To Earth
Ice does not lie

Says the eminent Alaskan scientist Maynard Miller. manu n kulkarni visits this land of the midnight sun to know what causes its glaciers to recede and what endangers its rare wildlife
- 14/09/2004
- Down To Earth
The rising

In a loss of face for the Bush administration, nine us states have decided to introduce mandatory greenhouse gas emission controls in the country's first-of-its-kind regional agreement.
- 29/09/2005
New whine

Global warming portends disaster for much of the multibillion-dollar us wine industry; areas suitable for growing premium wine grapes could be reduced by 50 per cent
- 14/08/2006
Warmonger

Global warming also reduces genetic diversity of wildlife
- 14/10/2004
Green fascism

But can the nations likely to be most affected by global warming the Maldives and Bangladesh impose trade sanctions on the us?
- 14/10/1997
- - Environment
 - Global Warming
Noise and a sane voice

We hope that this voice of academics, professionals and scientists will become a shout and then a scream very soon
- 14/11/2000