No laughing matter

West blames rising nitrous oxide levels for future depletion of northern mid-latitude ozone

Murky manoeuvre

USEPA's smokescreen to avoid curbing vehicular emissions

Championing charcoal

Over wood as cooking fuel

Finally through

Kyoto Protocol comes into force, EU debates future action

Complementing Kyoto

Asia-Pacific Partnership holds its first meeting

The warmer half

Scientists struggle to explain the rapidly rising sea surface temperatures in the Northern Hemispere

Gas gobbling algae

Carbon dioxide emissions from power plants can be reduced by a process involving algae, sunlight, and a little common sense

Creative accounting

The US administration reneged on its earlier undertaking on the Kyoto Protocol, choosing instead to come up with its own climate change strategy: …

Shying away

E-solution

Internet can help decongest traffic

Fixing cheap carbon

Genetically improved plants in Vietnam to help Australia meet its Kyoto target as cheaply as possible

No laughing matter

A large reservoir of nitrous oxide, a potential greenhouse gas, has been discovered near India's west coast

The hole truth

NASA discovers the largest ever ozone hole over Antarctica. A wake up call for industrialised countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

Beat that heat

Municipalities and citizens in the US could significantly contribute to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

Conditions to aid and trade

World Resources Institute objects to criticism that Northern groups are arm-twisting developing countries into reducing greenhouse gas emissions

Is Kyoto Protocol a steal?

Dirty business

Pink Floyd goes green

Rockers strike an ecofriendly chord

Rising greenhouse gases

Tidy gains

Rice millers to tap CDM

Cutting carbon

Boiling point

Greenhouse gas emissions could raise global temperatures much more than previously forecast leading to drought and flooding as weather patterns …

"We have to produce more rice using less water"

Robert Zeigler, director general of the Manila, Phillipines-based, International Rice Research Institution (IRRI) talks to Sourav Mishra about …

Sinking planks

Phytoplankton production could damage oceanic ecosystems

EU falls short