The destruction of the world’s forests, mainly to make way for agricultural land, has decreased over the past decade, but continues at an ‘alarmingly’ high rate in many countries, the UN reported Thursday.
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Earth Hour-global climate awareness initiative in India
India Inc Friday lent its support to Earth Hour — a global climate awareness initiative, which urges people and institutions to switch off their lights for an hour at 8.30 p.m. Saturday.
20-20-20 strategy by European Union for green energy by 2020
The European Union is set to achieve its self-imposed target of deriving at least 20 per cent of its energy consumption from renewable sources by 2020, the bloc’s executive said Thursday.
Wrong predictions on the impact of global warming by IPCC under review
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon has announced an independent review of its Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that faced flak due to some wrong predictions in a report on the impact of global warming.
Global warming to change rainfall pattern
Analysing global model warming projections in models used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a team headed by meteorologist Shang-Ping Xie at the University of Hawaii finds that ocean temperature patterns in the tropics and sub-tropics will change in ways that will significantly alter rainfall patterns.
