The UK government is planning to hit businesses with a GBP2bn/a energy tax to help the country meet its target of a 20% cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2010. But large industrial companies have

India will send an official delegation to the international meet on climatic changes to be held in Buenos Aires from Novemebr 2 to 13. The agenda of the meeting is crucial for India and other

Environmental planning for the 2002 Olympic games, strategies to reduce ozone levels, focussed on tree-planting programs and identification of cool roofs are early spinoffs from a NASA urban study

Meeting in Nairobi under the auspices of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), African ministers of environment agreed on a common position with regard to the Clean Development Mechanism

Negi : India need not fear the global warming phenomenon gas emissions is negligible compared to developed countries, according to eminent geophysicist Dr J G Negi.The panic being created over global

The $19.5 million project, called Sheba, for Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic Ocean, is a detailed measurement of heat flowing among the water, ice and air of the Arctic, and the results are

The formation of a private, global organization to market so-called greenhouse gas emissions trading certificates on the Internet has triggered a protest by some U.S. traders, who say it may violate

One of the principal factors in global warming, carbon dioxide, has been known for long to be produced in conjunction with various human activities. But a recent Japanese study has found that the

Thirty ministers from across the continent are expected to gather in Nairobi next week to discuss a number of enviroinmental issues, including desertification and ozone layer depletion. A meeting of

A team of US government and university researchers speculated in a report in the journal Science that North America seems to be removing a substantial portion of the excess carbon in the atmosphere -