Government's latest data on greenhouse gas emissions, which show that carbon dioxide emissions are down 8% on 1990 levels. Emissions of the

When the Snowdon lily was first spotted around 1696 by the Welsh botanist Edward Lhwyd it was already rare. A remnant of the ice age, it had clung on to life on the northern slopes of the highest

The human-induced climate change will persist for many centuries, even if emissions of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere were totally curtailed as some of the greenhouse gases such as carbon

Mrs Vidya Stokes, Minister for Science, Technology and Environment, has called upon the policy makers to take notice of the ongoing climatic changes and their consequences so that corrective measures

Companies rely on advertising to convince people to buy things they don t need. They also use advertising to salve their easily hurt egos. Four days after CSE went public with its report on pesticide residues in bottled water, a huge ad appeared in the Fe

russia has refused to toe the us line on Kyoto Protocol

Fish oil could be the answer to stifling the release of the greenhouse gas methane from belching farm animals. Belgian scientists found that adding fish oil to animal fodder could cut the release of

German companies are experimenting with emissions certificate trading ahead of the launch of a Europe-wide scheme in 2005, organisers of a pilot project said. "A credit for one tonne of carbon

Based on globally averaged land temperatures, said the National Climate Date Center (part of the U.S. Department of Commerce), January 2003 was the second warmest January on record world-wide