The European Commission presented "the most ambitious policy ever" to fight climate change on Wednesday, challenging the world to follow Europe's lead in cutting greenhouse gas emissions. The

China could face worse forest fires and be more severely affected by wood-destroying pests this year because of global warming, a senior forestry official said. The government would buy dedicated

Hungary plans to set a cap of 30.73 million tonnes carbon dioxide emissions per year on its industry in phase two of the European Union's emissions trading scheme, up from 30.24 million in the

Russia's parliament called on the US Congress on Wednesday to approve the Kyoto Protocol on cutting carbon emissions and urged Washington to remove a trade restriction dating back to the Cold War.

The year 2006 was the warmest in the contiguous United States since record keeping began 112 years ago, due in large part to an unusually warm December, US government weather forecasters said. The

Global warming has pushed up average global surface temperatures and the rise has been particularly swift since 1976. The past 10 years, with the exception of 1996, have been the warmest on record.

Tonu Blair on Tuesday waded into the growing controversy over how individuals can help to tackle global warming by declaring that he has no intention of abandoning long-haul holiday flights to reduce

China's biggest lake could disappear completely in 200 years as overgrazing and global warming take their toll, despite government efforts to stop its retreat, Xinhua news agency reported. The lake

Carbon emissions cuts will come too late to avert 'runaway' climate change if current policy trends continue in Europe and across the world according to the EU's World Energy Technology Outlook,