Fresh from visits to Canada's Yukon Territory and Alaska's northernmost city, four US senators said that signs of rising temperatures on Earth are obvious and they called on Congress to act.

As the first sings of winter push into the Northeast, researchers have some good news for fair weather fans

The European Union, the heavyweight in the fight against global warming, will push for mandatory cuts in emissions after the Kyoto protocol expires in 2012 despite fervent opposition from the United

The Kyoto protocol to cut greenhouse gases goes into effect two months from Thursday and industrialized countries like Canada and Japan find themselves with emissions embarrassingly beyond their

Major coastal cities like Mumbai are certainly feeling the effects of global warming, with the phenomenon now seen as a cause of floods and droughts across the world. This is the consensus

The Eskimos, or Inuit, about 155000 seal-hunting peoples scattered around the Arctic, plan to seek a ruling from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights that the United States, by contributing

China, widely regarded as the world's biggest potential environmental disaster, is talking up a new

The 12-day United Nations conference on climate change that began in Buenos Aires (Argentina) on December 6 assumes significance for several reasons. For one thing, it is the last such global meet

After seven years in critical condition, the Kyoto global warming treaty has a new lease on life, thanks to its recent ratification by Russia. Supporters and skeptics alike agree that the treaty will

• Environmental and development groups in London boycotted a World Bank financial consultation meet on November 1, 2004. The groups have taken umbrage at the way the Bank is carrying out