Climate change is boosting business for reinsurers, as rising claims from floods and storms mean higher costs but also more scope to raise prices, the world's biggest reinsurer Swiss Re said. Claims

Digital broadcasting is increasing the threat of global warming by pumping massive amounts of extra carbon dioxide into the atmosphere official figures suggest. The millions of Britons who

An alarming picture of the consequences of global warming being painted here all week has upped pressure on 80 Ministers, expected at an international conference on climate change, to take urgent

The Multi Commodity Exchange of India Ltd (MCX) will start futures trading in weather derivatives, freight, carbon credit and sulphur credit once the Parliament passes the Forward Contracts

Latest indications that El Nino conditions are intensifying and may likely continue through April-June 2007 are likely to cast a spell over next year's (2007) Indian monsoon. Expectations were that

China will surpass the united states in 2009 nearly a decade ahead of previous predictions as the biggest emitter of the main gas linked to global warming the International Energy Agency

A clear line has been drawn between the EU and the US over the strategies for cutting down on CO2 emissions and slowing climate change. The Kyoto Protocol spearheaded by the EU was signed by 39

From atop the 13,600-ft high windswept crest of a steep, serrated ridge, the Samudra Tapu glacier is a giant blanket of ice and snow, covering the bowl-shaped valley between jagged Himalayan peaks

India witnesses hotter summers, shorter winters. Shape of things to come?