On the same afternoon this fall that the Senate was debating whether to force U.S. companies to cut their carbon-dioxide emissions, Gray Kaster was tromping around dirt fields here in the Mississippi

U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has urged Russia to salvage the Kyoto protocol, calling the plan a first step in a decades-long push to combat global warming. "I encourage all remaining (developed)

A 180-nation U.N. conference resolved a dispute over how to plant forests to soak up gases blamed for global warming this week, the last main hurdle to the Kyoto protocol whose fate now depends on

Humans have altered the world's climate by generating heat-trapping greenhouse gases since almost the beginning of civilization and even prevented the start of an ice age several thousand years ago,

Italy accused the European Commission of wrongly using strongarm tactics to try to get Russia to ratify a key U.N. pact on global warming that will collapse if Moscow says "No." Environment Minister

Standford University researchers have used fossils from Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park to show how global warming can cause species extinction. The team examined the DNA of live voles and pocket

Growing scientific evidence of global warming is becoming an increasingly urgent priority for business leaders, a report from The Conference Board has shown this week. The report states that

On a cloudy day in the Chukchi Sea near Alaska's northwestern coast, two marine biologists from the Russian Academy of Sciences' Zoological Institute pulled up a small crab that could be proof the

The Bush administration unveiled its first steps toward developing an international system for observing Earth's environment. The system is designed to give governments and industries better

Taking a firmer stance in the debate over global warming, the Conference Board, a non profit organization, whose members include major corporations, issued a report citing increasing scientific