Environment ministers struggled to salvage the Kyoto Protocol on global warming after American rejection of the United Nations treaty. The minister's hopes of putting the treaty into effect next year

The Philippine government plans an ambitious $1.41 billion mass-transit project aimed to easing monstrous traffic problems for metropolitan Manila's 10 million residents. Metropolitan Manila, which

Deep divisions emerged at negotiations on how to rescue a global warming treaty as government ministers entered the talks, with European countries opposing a drive led by Japan to loosen carbon

For the second time in six weeks, President George W. Bush having rejected the Kyoto Protocol on global warming, is visiting Europe without a strategy on global warming, an issue of deep concern to

The United States appeared isolated at UN climate talks in Germany as Japan backed European efforts to save the Kyoto pact on global warming despite President George W. Bush's rejection of the

European leaders plan to appeal to President George W. Bush for greater cooperation in dealing with global warming by emphasizing the depth of dismay across their continent with U.S. policy and the

At a time when Europeans increasingly embrace American notions of open markets and shareholder capitalism, attitudes on environmental issues and energy appear starkly different from those in the

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said that the Japanese government would not decide until late October whether to ratify the Kyoto climate treaty without the participation of the United

Japan will make a proposal at the climate talks in Bonn that may be a desperate attempt both to keep the Kyoto Protocol alive and to avoid proceeding without U.S. participation, Kyodo news agency

Comets orbiting a distant star have been found to contain water, the first time the ingredient considered key to life has been discovered in objects circling a star other than our sun.