Saving Earth

DURING crunch talks in Copenhagen next week, Mexico will propose to slash its greenhouse gas emissions by 50 per cent by 2050 so long as it receives international aid, officials have said.
The second-largest economy in Latin America after Brazil also aims to reduce emissions from the heat-trapping gases by six to seven per cent [...]

The Pacific ocean is the largest ocean, it is more than twice as big as the Atlantic ocean.
Almost 1/3 of the earth land surface is covered with desert. The Sahara desert is just slightly smaller than the entire land area of the United States.
The lowest point on the earth surface is the Mariana trench, it [...]

It took all of one year for the member countries of the Framework Convention on Climate Change to decide that the Convention had to be augmented by an agreement with stricter demands for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions. The Convention took effect in 1994, and by 1995 governments had begun negotiations on a protocol — an international [...]