SALES of household electrical gadgets will boom across the developing world in the next decade, wreaking environmental havoc if there are no new strategies to deal with the discarded TVs, cell phones and computers, a UN report said yesterday.

The world faces being swamped with a tidal wave of electronic waste as sales of household gadgets boom over the next decade, according to a report out today.

A massive mile-thick brown pollution haze has settled over vast areas of the planet, changing weather patterns and threatening health and crops, according to the UN.

Glaciers in the Himalayas are at risk of disappearing by the year 2035, according to Ajit Tyagi, Director General of the Indian Meteorological Department.

IT is apparent that Dr Colmán Etchingham (Letters, March 25) has not bothered to familiarise himself with either the history of the formation of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) or with the detail of its work and method of operation.

THE UN yesterday announced it would become “climate neutral”, starting by offsetting the greenhouse gas emissions caused by travel to the Bali conference on climate change.

United Nations and international maritime agencies promised to give Lebanon immediate technical advice today to help clean up an oil slick, and warned the operation could cost more than €50m.

According to the UN, all the apes gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos and orang-utans face a very high risk of extinction within 50 years at most.

A THREE-KILOMETRE deep blanket of sooty pollution stretching across southern Asia threatens to inflict untold economic damage to the region and put hundreds of thousands of people at risk, scientists said yesterday.