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Policymakers could help ease the economic costs of combating climate change by taking steps to assist affected workers and communities, conclude two new reports from the Pew Center on Global Climate

To ease congestion at its CNG filling stations across the Capital, Indraprastha Gas Limited plans to rationalise filling of private and school buses by dedicating five dispensers exclusively for

India has convened a special meeting of about 40 select countries on September 29 to ensure that the conference of parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate to be held in New Delhi from

Human activities are releasing tiny particles (aerosols) into the atmosphere. These human-made aerosols enhance scattering and absorption of solar radiation. They also produce brighter clouds that are less efficient at releasing precipitation. These in turn lead to large reductions in the amount of solar irradiance reaching Earth's surface, a corresponding increase in solar heating of the atmosphere, changes in the atmospheric temperature structure, suppression of rainfall, and less efficient removal of pollutants.

The West Bengal Government has drawn up an ambitious Eco-tourism project to promote the bio-diversity of the Sunderbans, the Chief Minister, Mr. Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, has said. The project will be

The Dutch environment ministry said yesterday it had signed an agreement with Panama to buy credits from clean energy projects there toward meeting its carbon dioxide (CO2) reductions targets.

The Japan government is intent on achieving nearly two-thirds of the greenhouse gas cuts it has pledged under a U.N. climate accord by using the carbon dioxide-absorbing properties of the nation's

George W. Bush tends to look at environment science as a liberal conspiracy against the divine order. He was infamously rude about the Kyoto treaty. Imagine his reaction to theories blaming US war on

A long standing debate about the causes of global warming may finally be solved. Cosmic rays from space really could help warm the planet by changing the way clouds form in the lower atmosphere. The

Emissions trading programs reduce air pollution by setting a permanent cap on emissions, then allowing trading within that cap. Companies that fail to meet their EPA mandated emissions reductions

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