Green Times

The world’s major cities are also among the planet’s worst polluters but they have the solutions to most of their problems at their fingertips, a leading environmental consultancy said on Monday.To make the case more compelling, consultancy McKinsey said that most of the available solutions would save more than they cost so made economic sense […]

A discussion of the effects of climate change on Africa, excerpted from “Africa’s Development: Promises and Prospects - Report of the Africa Progress Panel 2008.”Global warming is well underway, and its consequences are already visible in Africa. Severe drought lurks behind the Darfur conflict, for example, and it is very likely that the problem […]

The term “green house effect” has become a cliche in climate related terminology. Today, the world is in the grip of the greenhouse effect. The Earth’s temperature is rising, which will have a deleterious effect on the biosphere and living organisms on it.Composition
The greenhouse effect is induced by a number of gases popularly known as […]