Banners..Banners and more Banners. Just look around and that is what you see. We Sri Lankans are famous for banners. Not only in the heart of Colombo City but in the outskirts as well. True it's irritating at times but banners have become part and parcel of our daily life.

A proposed U.N. study of climate extremes will be a practical guide for tackling natural disasters and fill a gap in past reports focused on the gradual effects of global warming, experts said.

With the world in economic recession, there is a temptation to downgrade or sideline climate change. That would be a great mistake.
The gathering of 2,000 scientists in Copenhagen in March found the climate change situation much worse than previously reported. They called on politicians to act quickly and decisively.

Despite years of study and analysis, the world is unprepared for climate change and needs to rethink basic assumptions that govern things as varied as choosing cars and building bridges, the National Research Council reported Thursday.

Current building, land use and planning practices assume a continuation of climate as it has been known in the past.

More than 600 self-professed climate skeptics are meeting in New York this week to challenge what has become a broad scientific and political consensus: that without big changes in energy choices, humans will dangerously heat up the planet.

The Delhi Sustainable Development Summit brought the crisis of climate change sharply into focus

The threat held out by climate change is eliciting enough concern worldwide to have drawn some 700 stakeholders from India and overseas to a three-day conference in New Delhi last fortnight.