South Korea satellite launch,delayed due to malfunctioning

A planned satellite launch of South Korea’s space program was postponed. The satellite suffered a setback due to malfunctioning firefighting equipment. The fire retardant suddenly sprayed from three nozzles which is set up near the launch pad to extinguish any blaze according to a spokesman at the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, Pyun Kyung-bum. [...]

Climate change brings a change to Australian reef

Warmer seas due to climate changes were blamed on Wednesday by an Australian scientist who said that the world’s southernmost coral reefs were bleached in large parts for the first time due to it. The Australian scientist Peter Harrison, who has been monitoring the world heritage-listed Lord Howe Island since 1993, said a two degrees Celsius (four Fahrenheit) rise [...]

Dinosaurs by Mass Volcanism

According to a study, the immense volcanic activity could be the source of dinosaur’s aid to rise in some 200 million years ago. For some 160 years, the dinosaurs were the dominant vertebrates. It is widely accepted that the huge asteroid or comet had been the cause for their extinction. According to some investigations, volcanic [...]

Global Warming: As a Dangerous Problem Today

Global Warming is the increase of the average temperature of the earth’s atmosphere or an overall increase in the world temperature which may be caused by additional heat being trapped by greenhouse gases. Is also defined as the progressive gradual rise of the earth’s surface temperature thought to be caused by the greenhouse effect and [...]

More than 80 nations sign ‘Copenhagen Accord’

Over 80 nations have signed the “Copenhagen Accord”, in order to fight the climate change, documents showed on Wednesday. China, India and Russia are among the nations yet to make clear if they will endorse the deal. On January 18, the U.N. Climate Change Secretariat wrote to all countries, asking them to state by January 31 [...]

Ageing Asian problem is as serious a problem as climate change

In Asia, the longer life spans, falling fertility rates, and the growing rank of elderly people can become a problem as serious as the impact of the climate change, a leading expert said on Monday. While speaking at the pensions industry conference in Singapore, the secretary general of the International Actuarial Association, Yves Guerard, said [...]

Errors found on UN’s climate report on glaciers

Five errors were discovered in one paragraph of the world’s most authoritative report on global warming and glaciers. This forced the Nobel Prize-winning panel of climate scientists who wrote it to apologize and promise to be more careful. The errors were found in a 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a U.N. [...]

UN says that a binding climate deal will be ‘reachable this year’

The chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said on Tuesday that the countries may reach a binding agreement on climate change in Mexico City this year, after failing to do so in Copenhagen. “I think we have a very short period of time in which the world has to get its act together. [...]

World leaders call again on global warming

The world leaders made a call for clean energy commitments and raised a renewed alarm on global warming on Monday. They urged international action to increase the use of clean energy at a four-day forum that opened in the oil-rich emirate of Abu Dhabi. “If we don’t act now, our coral reefs and rainforests will [...]

‘Meaningful deal’ reached at climate summit

COPENHAGEN: The US, China, India and South Africa have reached a “meaningful agreement” in a “historic first step forward” on climate change action at the Copenhagen summit, says a senior US official. “No country is entirely satisfied with each element but this is a meaningful and historic step forward and a foundation from which to [...]

Last-ditch effort to salvage climate talks

COPENHAGEN: World leaders are in last-ditch efforts to strike a deal on carbon emission cuts as the climate summit in Copenhagen ends on Friday. The world leaders were trying to save the talks from complete collapse, with no agreement even on a watered-down “Copenhagen Accord”, which fell far short of the decisive action they had [...]

Copenhagen talks go slow

Talks remain deadlocked at the Copenhagen Climate Summit, with just two days left to seal a global emissions pact. Developed and developing nations remained in disagreement over who should cut emissions, how deep the cuts should be, and how much aid should go to poor countries. But there has been some progress – wealthy nations [...]

Climate talks step up after Monday’s suspension

Negotiators at the Copenhagen summit are trying to make up for the lost time as they stepped up efforts to reach an agreement. Protests by leaders from the developing countries had led to suspension of talks for half-day on Monday. They had blamed the developed nations for trying to collapse the Kyoto Protocol, which they [...]

Developing nations’ protests stall climate talks

The developing countries’ concern that the rich nations are trying to collapse the Kyoto Protocol stalls the climate talks being held in Copenhagen. Their protests forced a suspension of talks for some time on Monday. The G77 bloc representing the developing nations says scrapping Kyoto Protocol will mean ‘killing of Africa’. It also claims that [...]