The international day for the preservation of the ozone layer is being observed on Tuesday with focus on combating the depletion of the earth

When T. Boone Pickens, the legendary oilman, began campaigning for wind energy in July, even Congress took notice.

Rainfall decreased over two-thirds of India, says study Conventional thinking has it that India with global warming will receive more rainfall. But that need not necessarily be so. Annual rainfall, especially during winter and monsoon, has decreased in over 68 per cent of the country, claims a recent study by Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (iitm), Pune. Scientists attribute the

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Painting a grim picture, a new study shows that even if greenhouse gas emissions are fixed at 2005 levels, irreversible warming will lead to biodiversity loss and substantial glacial melt.

The earth will warm about 2.4 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels even under extremely conservative greenhouse-gas emission scenarios and under the assumption that efforts to clean up particulate pollution continue to be successful, an new analysis by a pair of researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanog raphy show.

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Washington: Scientists in the United States have created the world

The observation by Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the UN Inter governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), that people should have one meat-free day a week to cut greenhouse gas emissions has elicited more criticism than support in Britain.

A US$100 billion US government investment over two years could create 2 million "green" jobs in such industrial sectors as steel and construction, environmental and labor groups said on Tuesday.

"From the point of view of the steelworkers union, the view is quite simple, that a energy efficient green economy creates jobs and it can create jobs in America," said Leo Gerard, international president of the United Steelworkers.
He said the US move toward wind power has already prompted the reopening of two struggling steel mills, now making steel plate for use in new windmills.

Prominent climate scientists criticised the Australian government's top climate adviser on Tuesday, saying his recommended targets for carbon emissions were too weak and would not help avoid catastrophic climate change.

Climate adviser Ross Garnaut has urged the government to cut Australian Greenhouse gas emissions by 10 percent on 2000 levels by 2020, and to set a carbon price of A$20 (US$16.25) a tonne in the first years of carbon trading in Australia from mid-2010.