Under-fire Japan defends climate goal at UN talks

Last Updated: Saturday, November 16, 2013, 18:19

The UN, Europe and the world`s small island states reacted with disappointment and green groups voiced fury after Japan on Friday slashed its goal for greenhouse gas emissions.

Japan drastically scales back greenhouse gas emissions target

Last Updated: Friday, November 15, 2013, 18:13

Japan today said it was dramatically scaling back its greenhouse gas emissions target after the Fukushima nuclear accident forced the country to turn to fossil-fuel burning energy sources.

Talks seek modest UN climate deal for 2015, to raise aid

Last Updated: Monday, November 11, 2013, 12:24

World governments meeting in Poland from Monday are likely to make only modest progress in reaching a 2015 deal to fight climate change.

New grass developed to curb greenhouse gas emissions

Last Updated: Friday, November 8, 2013, 17:56

A new kind of grass has been developed with the joint efforts of scientists from Japan and Colombia to curb greenhouse gas emissions caused by chemical fertilisers.

Brazil`s greenhouse gas emissions drop

Last Updated: Friday, November 8, 2013, 15:46

Brazil`s greenhouse gas emissions dropped 36.7 percent in the past seven years, according to a study released Thursday by the country`s climate monitoring centre.

Greenhouse gas in atmosphere hits new record: UN

Last Updated: Wednesday, November 6, 2013, 18:37

The amount of greenhouse gases in Earth`s atmosphere hit a new record high in 2012, continuing an ever-faster rise that is driving climate change, the UN weather agency said Wednesday.

Ancient Antarctic ice may reveal Earth`s past climate conditions

Last Updated: Wednesday, November 6, 2013, 15:17

Scientists have identified regions in Antarctica that they claim stores data about Earth`s climate and greenhouse gases extending as far back as 1.5 million years.

Scientists back `nuclear power` to help slow down global warming

Last Updated: Monday, November 4, 2013, 14:35

Top climate scientists have claimed that the development of safer nuclear power can help in decelerating the effects of global warming by cutting down on fossil fuel pollution.

Geoengineering the climate could reduce vital rains

Last Updated: Friday, November 1, 2013, 19:12

Attempts to geoengineer the climate in order to lower greenhouse gases in the atmosphere could reduce vital rains in several parts of the world, including East Asia, a new study has found.

Smoke from Indian religious sites `melting Himalayan glaciers`

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.

Current temperature rise in Arctic highest since past 120,000 years

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.

Climate change to undermine world ocean systems by 2100

Last Updated: Thursday, October 17, 2013, 21:09

Scientists have found that no corner of the world ocean will be untouched by climate change by 2100, with the sea experiencing the simultaneous effects of warming, acidification and oxygen depletion.