Corporate takeover of the US
The Bush administration's agenda aims to savage the United Nations, destroy the foundations of an emerging global community and ignore …
Report: Face financial risk - Ignore climate change
A 2003 report, Carbon Finance and the Global Equity Markets, identifies changing climate due to rising global average temperature as one of the …
Ocean warming leading to loss of fish stocks, crop yields: IUCN
The report, compiled by 80 scientists across 12 countries, highlights evidence of impacts on marine life, from microorganisms to mammals
Climate change first ‘went viral’ exactly 70 years ago
Throughout the 50s and 60s US, Swedish, German and Soviet scientists were examining the issue
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: …
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
Fixing cheap carbon
Genetically improved plants in Vietnam to help Australia meet its Kyoto target as cheaply as possible
Conditions to aid and trade
World Resources Institute objects to criticism that Northern groups are arm-twisting developing countries into reducing greenhouse gas emissions
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 …
Escape clause inserted
Although claiming otherwise, Bush's new plan leaves enough room for the US to raise its emission of greenhouse gases
Why abattoirs in Nigeria pose a threat to health and environment
It’s not uncommon for abattoirs to dispose waste directly into streams and rivers. There’s no disposal management or treatment system,…
Descent of man
The troubling aspect is that religious fundamentalism encourages the rejection of modern scientific thinking
Melting into oblivion
With rising atmospheric temperatures, glaciers worldwide are rapidly melting. This is a disaster in the making that is yet to be acknowledged
Fruitful venture
Now, the natural process by which plants absorb carbon dioxide is translating into profits for the farmers of Karnataka
Climatic loophole
Sinks can now be potentially identified as the most dangerous loophole for the environmental integrity of the Kyoto Protocol
Nasa’s satellite maps global carbon dioxide levels
The satellite was launched in July this year to help scientists understand the impact of human activities on climate; the map contains data of …
Battling climate change
Technologies exist to arrest global warming. But the political will to implement them is missing
Reduced greenhouse gas emissions to impact profits
a new report will help people take informed decisions about investing in the automobile sector. It includes details of how efforts to restrict …
Russia reneging on Kyoto?
The earth is hotter than it has been in the past 2000 years and the largest ice shelf in the Artic has broken into two after having existed for …
Critical conversation on climate change
BOOK>> Carbon Trading A Critical Conversation on Climate Change, Privatisation and Power The Corner House The uk 2006