Manure and buses are among promising areas for investment under a U.N. project in the Third World aimed at combating global warming, a senior U.N. official said. The scheme, part of the U.N.'s Kyoto

Cutting the world's emissions of greenhouse gases would involve a shift away from the fossil fuels that powered the industrial revolution and provided cheap energy for more than a century. As this

Rising seas have forced 100 people on a Pacific island to move to higher ground in what may be the first example of a village formally displaced because of modern global warming, a UN report said.

Rising rates of deadly heat strokes, salmonella infection and hay fever across Europe are linked to global warming and should push governments to act faster on preventing climate change, the World

In December 1997, representatives of most of the world's nations met in Kyoto, Japan, to negotiate a binding agreement to cut emissions of "greenhouse" gases. They succeeded. The Kyoto Protocol was

Industrial nations should cut their carbon dioxide emissions as per the Kyoto Protocol as part of the efforts to keep global warming below dangerous levels so as to preserve the diversity and

Karnataka government has decided to operate eco-friendly buses, powered by electricity, in Mysore on an experimental basis from this December, state transport minister N Cheluvaraya Swamy said on

A delay in publishing the European Union's emission-trading plans for the five years starting 2008 is curbing trading, said a group that represents energy buyers and sellers. Nine of the EU's 25

Global warming appears to have triggered genetic changes in a species of fruit fly on three continents, a portent of how certain impacts of climate change may be rapid yet remain undetected. In a

Los Angeles, London, New York, Seoul and 18 other cities joined forces in a global warming project aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Launched by former President Bill Clinton's foundation,