Air bubbles in the solesof jogging shoes may become a relic if an ambitious regulation unveiled yesterday by the European Commission to reduce greenhouse gases is pushed through.Plans by indsutry to

the world is waiting for Russia to make up its mind about the Kyoto protocol. Ratification by Moscow is all that is needed now to bring the agreement to combat global warming into effect. Vladimir

A testy scientific dispute has broken out over a new study indicating significant signs of global warming in the Earth's lower atmosphere. The degree of warming in the troposphere

Paving the way for implementation of the United Nations Convention on Bio-diversity (CBD), Parliament on Wednesday approved the Biological Diversity Bill, signalling a shift from the earlier practice

Union Petroleum and Natural Gas minister Ram Naik attributes the substantial improvement in air quality in the Capital to the quality of liquid auto fuels petrol and diesel. "As per a study conducted

A team of researchers from the University of Georgia (UGA) has begun an experiment to test the possibilities of using genetically modified trees to clean up a site contaminated with toxic mercury.

The European Parliament has adopted an initiative from the European Commission to create a European Water Fund of

The US, France, and Japan, some of the most industrialised nations in the world, have the most misinformed citizens on the issue of global warming, finds a new study by American academics. The study

Temperature data for the first 11 months of the year show that the average global temperature is on the rise. The new data indicates that 2002 will go down in the recordbooks as the second warmest

Climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions will exacerbate world poverty and could make millions of people more open to extremism, the chief of the United Nations' climate advisory body said.