Last Updated: Wednesday, October 30, 2013, 19:04
Religious sites are responsible for almost a quarter of the greenhouse gases blamed for global warming on the Indian subcontinent and the melting of the Himalayan glaciers, a new study has claimed.
Last Updated: Friday, October 25, 2013, 14:08
Experts at the University of Colorado Boulder have found that the standard summer temperatures in the Eastern Canadian Arctic have risen drastically in the last 100 years as compared to any century in the last 44,000 years and perhaps as long ago as 120,000 years.
Last Updated: Thursday, October 17, 2013, 14:12
Enhanced growth of Earth`s leafy greens during the 20th century has significantly slowed the planet`s transition to being red-hot, according to a new study.
Last Updated: Sunday, October 6, 2013, 13:59
Water vapour in Earth`s stratosphere contributes to warmer temperatures and likely plays an important role in the evolution of climate on our planet, a new study has found.
Last Updated: Thursday, October 3, 2013, 22:18
Diesel exhaust fumes alter the flowery smells that guide bees when they forage, potentially sending them off course and putting the food-growing industry at risk, a study said today.
Last Updated: Thursday, October 3, 2013, 11:58
Astronomers have discovered a galaxy that is being powered by cold streams of primordial hydrogen, vestigial matter left over from the Big Bang, fuelling a distant star-forming galaxy in the early universe.
Last Updated: Wednesday, September 25, 2013, 13:00
During the Archean eon, about 3.8 billion years - 2.5 billion years ago, the Sun was about 20 to 25 percent fainter, and with less sunlight, the oceans may have frozen on Earth.
Last Updated: Wednesday, September 18, 2013, 13:58
International leaders are failing in their fight against global warming, one of the United Nations` top climate officials said.
Last Updated: Tuesday, September 17, 2013, 22:22
Brazil, China, India and South Africa have chided developed nations for not doing enough to curb greenhouse gases and fund efforts to confront climate change.
Last Updated: Wednesday, September 4, 2013, 20:00
Ten years of satellite observations of greenhouse gases have revealed the rise of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
Last Updated: Monday, September 2, 2013, 20:11
The effect of greenhouse gases and aerosols on spatial patterns of rainfall change is similar, regardless of their distinct properties, a new study has revealed.
Last Updated: Wednesday, August 28, 2013, 17:39
Evidence suggests that some kind of chemical "substance" was used that may have killed more than 1,000 people, but any military strike in response must first gain UNSC approval, the UN`s special envoy Lakhdar Brahimi said.
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