It is always nice to lie back and look up into the sky and watch the drifting patterns of clouds. However, some clouds are odder or weirder than others. Some were made by nature and some were made accidentally by the...
ERT technology is similar to computer tomography scan. It takes images of soil resistivity which allows scientists to determine the soil's properties, such as temperature, saturation, and soil type. Tomography is...
St. Petersburg has the most polluted rivers of the Volga-Baltic waterways, according to the results of a research expedition carried out by the international environmental pressure group Greenpeace on the Beluga II ship...
Rich countries led by Russia, Australia and the EU have been accused of trying to cheat their way out of reducing their greenhouse gas emissions by creating "dishonest" forestry accounting loopholes.
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In its first major climate report to the United Nations in four years, the United States projected Tuesday that its climate-warming greenhouse gases will grow by 4 percent through 2020.
The first such report submitted...
New data from some of the world's leading climate researchers and institutions suggest that 2010 is shaping up to be one of the warmest years ever recorded.
Scientists at the US National Snow and Ice Centre Data Centre...
The Three Gorges dam was so vast and sweeping a vision that nothing could stand in its way. Not the old cities of the Yangtze valley, storehouses of human toil and treasure for more than a thousand years. Not the...
The government's chief scientific adviser has hit out at climate sceptics who attack global warming science on spurious grounds.
The statements from Professor John Beddington appeared to be a veiled attack on the...
High flood waters that devastated parts of Poland have now reached Germany. But improvements made to flood control dikes following disastrous floods in 1997 have paid off. So far only one dike has been damaged, but...
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday criticised Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's government for ignoring environmental problems and said he was ready to throw the weight of his presidency behind the issue.
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