Alive to the problem of bio-piracy, the Centre has taken the first step to curb the menace by legislating the biodiversity bill, which has been cleared by Parliament and is likely to come into force

Global warming will melt most of the Arctic icecap in summertime by the end of the century, a report showed. The three-year international study indicated that ice around the North Pole had shrunk by

Scientists are blaming global warming for falling fish harvests in Africa's Lake Tanganyika, threatening the diets of several developing nations. Warming air and water and decreasing wind have cut

A new Water Poverty Index developed to highlight the differences between water-rich and water-poor nations will be the cornerstone of the Third Water Forum in the Japanese city of Kyoto next March.

The European Union will ensure sulphur-free petrol and diesel are fully available by 2009 in a move to promote lower traffic emissions and improve vehicles' fuel efficiency, the European Commission

Global norms on protecting and commercially exploiting biodiversity are contradictory and likely to remain so for a while. The need, therefore, for developing countries to come up with homegrown

Climate change could be causing more than higher temperatures - it may also be helping to fuel a rise in malaria in East Africa, scientists said. Cases of the mosquito-borne disease that kills about

A vote by Canada's Parliament to back ratification of the Kyoto protocol on global warming should encourage Americans to put pressure on Washington over its decision to abandon the treaty last year,

Despite criticism from industry and a variety of other sources both the Canadian and New Zealand governments ratified the Kyoto Protocol on 10 December. New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark signed

The European commission unveiled tough proposals to cut emissions of particularly potent greenhouse gases by a quarter before 2010, in the fight against global warming. To meet commitments under the