| Floating tsunami trash to be a headache | | The tsunami that ravaged northeast Japan in March 2011 created the biggest single dumping of rubbish, sweeping some five million tonnes of shattered buildings, cars, household goods and other rubble into the sea. | | Scientists report big jump in heat-trapping CO2 | | The amount of heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the air jumped dramatically in 2012, making it very unlikely that global warming can be limited to another 2 degrees (1.2 C) as many global leaders have hoped, new federal figures show. | | Indians facing worst drought in decades | | Millions of people in western India are suffering their worst drought in more than four decades, with critics blaming official ineptitude and corruption for exacerbating the natural water shortage. | | Warmer climate to open new Arctic shipping routes | | The quickest way to get goods from Asia to the US East Coast in 2050 might well be straight across the Arctic, where a warming climate is expected to open new sea routes through what is now impenetrable ice, a study reported on Monday. | | AFP pictures show then and now of tsunami | | The piles of rubble left behind by the receding tsunami have largely gone, but two years after nature visited its fury, some stretches of Japan’s battered northeast remain little more than ravaged wastelands. | | Waste warrants green future | | In a bid to position Abu Dhabi as a leading city in waste management, all new commercial licencees in the trading, industrial, occupational, handicrafts and construction sectors in the country’s Capital will be exempted from tariff fees on waste production during their first year of operation. | |
