Climate change may be to blame for some 150000 deaths each year, with tropical places and poor countries being the most vulnerable, the UN health agency said. The increase in deaths estimated by the

The U.N. General Assembly decided this week to put off negotiations for a year on a treaty banning human cloning that the Bush administration wants to extend to research on stem cells. All 191 U.N.

The people of the Brahmaputra basin should be involved in the efforts at managing the mighty river, said the speakers at a lecture session on the river and the conflicts in sharing its water. The

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