Rising world temperatures could cause a significant increase in disease across Asia and Pacific Island nations, leading to conflict and leaving hundreds of millions of people displaced, a new report

Despite a worldwide trend towards global warming, 2004 was only the 10th-hottest year in Australia. Some years in the 1980s and even the 1970s were hotter. Long-range forecasts show we can expect a

Deep underground storage of carbon dioxide could prevent between 20 and 40% of the global emissions, largely responsible for global warming, between now and 2050, according to a report by UN

Multi Commodity Exchange of India (MCX) has signed a licensing agreement on Tuesday with Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) under which CCX will list mini-sized versions of its European Climate Exchange

When Lonnie Thompson started collecting ice samples from the world's glaciers in the 1970s, people were abuzz about a coming ice age. Since then, global warming has become more than an academic

Old ways of managing water in dry regions are winning new attention in the search for sustainable development in both urban and rural settings, experts in water technology say. The old techniques

Two weeks of negotiations at a United Nations conference on climate change ended over the weekend with a weak pledge to start limited, informal talks on ways to slow down global warming, after the

The role of developing nations in tackling global climate change will be highlighted when talks on the United Nations response to global warming resume in May. As diplomats tried to assess the

The indigenous people of Alaska could become the first global warming refugees as their frozen homeland goes through the quickest defrost since the end of the last Ice Age, some 12,000 years ago. The

In a United Nations conference's final hours, the United States and the European Union worked out a modest deal early on Saturday to inch ahead in the international efforts to put a cap on global