Global warming will favour temperate insects
contrary to popular belief that global warming will lead to population explosion in insects, a recent study claims otherwise. It says the phenomenon will lead to extinction of insects in the
contrary to popular belief that global warming will lead to population explosion in insects, a recent study claims otherwise. It says the phenomenon will lead to extinction of insects in the
A new analysis published in Nature (May 15, 2008) revealed that a large number of physical and biological systems across the planet are being affected by global warming. The impacts range from
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As SPANISH hauliers and French fishermen have shouted out for all the world to hear, higher fuel prices are not popular. This is uncomfortable for those
Japan will launch an experimental carbon trading scheme for industry this autumn, Yasuo Fukuda, prime minister, said yesterday as he announced a pledge to cut Japanese greenhouse gas emissions by 60-80 per cent by 2050. In a speech laying out Japan's position on climate change ahead of a summit of the Group of Eight leading economies next month, Mr Fukuda, the meeting's host, said the world needed to "sever its reliance on fossil fuels" and "make a decisive turn toward a low-carbon society".
On 5 June humankind celebrated World Environment Day. But underlining the merrymaking were issues of grave environmental concern. Which are going to challenge our future, specially food shortage, poverty and environment degradation.
Insects in the tropics have been found to be on the wrong side of global warming, says Kirtiman Awasthi
The good news in the International Energy Agency's report on the future of energy technologies is that there is enough oil left on the planet to allow a huge increase in consumption over the next few decades. The bad news is that the consequences for the climate of burning that much oil would be alarming. The IEA, the rich countries' energy watchdog, is urging the world to start weaning itself off oil, not because supplies are running out but to avoid "significant change in all aspects of life and irreversible change in the natural environment" as a result of global warming.
A controversial bill on climate change goes before the Senate But George Bush says no
China and India are increasingly keen to be seen to be tackling climate change; though it is dirtier, China is making a more convincing show of action
The cost of carbon dioxide emissions would need to be at least $200 per tonne - many times today's levels - to deliver the cuts scientists propose will be needed to avert the threat of global warming, the International Energy Agency said yesterday. The rich countries' energy watchdog warned that the cost of emissions, set by trading schemes or carbon taxes, would need to be that high to make investment in technologies such as hydrogen-fuelled vehicles commercially viable.
A deal to be done between rich and poor countries on global warming is going begging
This is last of a three-part series on carbon and climate change to show how global adversity can be changed into an opportunity Priyadarshi Shukla Ahmedabad: There is an evolving carbon market where carbon offsets are traded. The largest is the European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme (EUETS) established for offsetting emissions limitation committed under the Kyoto Protocol.
Before the anticlimactic demise on Friday of legislation to combat global warming, the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, Democrat of Nevada, called climate change "the most important issue facing the world today.' Senator George V. Voinovich, Republican of Ohio, a critic of the bill, nonetheless called it "the most significant piece of legislation to ever come out of the Environment and Public Works Committee.' Senator John W. Warner winked at Senator Joseph I. Lieberman as he was met by Senators John Kerry, left, and Barbara Boxer.
Next year will mark the 150th anniversary of the US's first oil well, in Titusville, Pennsylvania. Today, we are working to build a new economic future based on clean, renewable energy. The innovators of Titusville have modern-day counterparts in the entrepreneurs, scientists, investors and working people who are part of a growing movement to build a "green economy".
Global Warming as we all know is one of the serious environmental issues resulting from Green House Effect. Out of all Green House Gases (GHGs), carbon dioxide is the most significant one as its concentration in the atmosphere is increasing at an alarming rate. The most interesting aspect of the GHGs is that they allow the incoming solar radiations to come to earth, but do not allow the longer wavelength radiations of the earth to go up. These are reflected back to the earth surface. As a result the earth's surface temperature is getting warmer.
The Cane and Bamboo Technology Centre (CBTC) has urged the policy makers and development activists in Northeastern states to use bamboo for low carbon economy which would help contain the global warming. A CBTC release issued here today on the occasion of the World Environment Day said as part of the celebrations, about 60 field functionaries from the NE states would be imparted training on bamboo nursery and plantation under the National Bamboo Mission Scheme.
Hiranmay Karlekar It is more likely for water to be turned into wine than for soaring petrol and diesel prices, which threaten to hobble the world's economy, to plummet. The global food shortage may end, but not in a hurry. It may also continue, given the vagaries of climate change following failure to contain global warming. While welcoming the economic strength that India and China have acquired, US President George W Bush, who always has at least one foot close to his mouth, has ascribed the food crisis to the rise in purchasing power and demand in the two Asian giants.
Inspite of rising fuel prices and air fares, the increasing number of short haul passenger trips has contributed immensely to the increase in per capita carbon emission