Britain is to study whether global warming can be curbed by

Clinical Trials on Hispanics

In the valley, the thermometer is nudging 30 degrees centigrade. Atop the mighty Gemstock summit, almost 3000 metres above sea level it is cooler but already nearing 10 degrees in the strong early

British Prime Minister Tony Blair met Russian President Vladimir Putin, emerged afterwards saying he saw a "real prospect" of achieving his G8 summit goals of dramatically cutting African debt and

A senior official at the White House Council on Environmental Quality has resigned, days after a newspaper reported he changed some government reports to downplay links between greenhouse gas

Carbon dioxide is not a harmful gas and has helped produce the "green" world agricultural revolution, according to an Australian climate expert. Rob Carter, from James Cook University in Townsville,

The Bush administration said that changes made in government reports on global warming by a former oil industry advocate were part of a normal interagency review and did not violate a pledge to base

Malaysia, the world's largest producer of palm oil, is putting the final touches to a plan to spur national use of a green fuel made by blending palm oil with the diesel sold at pumps. The plan for