Fiscal implications of global decarbonization
Internationally coordinated climate mitigation policies can effectively put the world on a path toward achieving the agreed Paris temperature goals. Such coordination could be initiated by large players,
United States Of America (US)
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Trawler travails
A campaign against trawlers operating on a factory like scale in the north Pacific has been launched by Greenpeace in the US
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Big tobacco coughs up
A tobacco company will have to pay US $81 million to the family of a man who died of lung cancer
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Arctic plunder
The Bush administration has passed a bill that permits oil and gas exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
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Pact ratified
Experts question efficacy of plant genetic resources treaty
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Vanishing act
At least 114 types of animals have become extinct in the us due to the federal government's failure to implement the Endangered Species Act (esa). This aspect has been brought to light in a report
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Driving home a point without any solutions
THE BRANDT Commission in 1980 had called for a world "based less on power and status, more on justice and contract; less discretionary, more governed by fair and open rules". Shridath
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The green race begins
Given the rich California's zero emission target of 1998, manufacturers have started producing eco friendly cars
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Using DNA to put them in place
A VULTURE is really a stork and albatrosses belong to the same super-family as the flightless penguins. This is what US ornithologists, Charles Sibley, Jon Ahlquist and Burt Monroe have concluded
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Moss genes may enable crops to survive drought
STAR MOSS, a primitive organism without roots or a vascular system that is common in the forests of North America, contains genes that could be used to engineer drought resistance in crops. Molecular
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Neem may be effective against AIDS
Scientists believe neem stimulates the body's immune system and are working on the possibility of using it in treating AIDS.