The US senate rejected the country s first climate change bill in the last week of October. On the bright side, the proposed law sank by a 55 43 vote the margin of defeat being much narrower than the upper house s 95 0 thumbs down to the Kyoto Protocol

By 2080, the world s lakes will experience a temperature change of up to 6.7 c caused by greenhouse gas emissions, according to a study by the uk based Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research

Top rice grower China could see output of the staple crop plummet because of global warming, a study carried out by British and Chinese scientists said. The research has shown that yields of three

India and Nepal will hold a series of meeting this and the next month to finalise the Detailed Project Report of the Pancheshwar dam on the Mahakali-Sharda river on the border of the two countries.