Is this a case of pouring cola over troubled waters? See how Parliament's alacrity in constituting a joint committee to inquire into pesticide contamination of carbonated soft drinks has altered the

As the country's ambitious strategy on conserving bio-diversity begins to acquire a concrete form, there are indications that the Union environment ministry may seek to dilute some of the more

U.S. greenhouse gas emissions linked to global warming fell by 1.2 percent last year, the largest decrease in a decade, due in part to slow economic growth and a milder winter, the government said.

The EU's emissions trading scheme, agreed by the bloc's environment ministers last week and due to go live in 2005, has led to the first speculative trades, German energy industry and government

In another chilling pointer to global warming, data released this month indicates that the ice covering the Arctic Ocean and Greenland shrank by record amounts this summer. If the current trends

In antiregulatory group sued the Bush administration in an effort to force the government to stop distributing a report on climate change that the group contends is inaccurate and biased. It was

The Kyoto agreement to cut carbon emissions will have little effect on global warming, according to Danish environmental skeptic Bj

Masses of plankton, dying as global warming heats up the waters off the Seychelles, are threatening marine life in the Indian Ocean tourist haven, a government official said. The dead plankton, as it

This year has been the second warmest since 1890, extending a quarter-century pattern of accelerated global warming linked to greenhouse gas emissions, United Nations scientists have said. The World

Agriculturally, many scientists believe that global warming is good for human race, because it helps increase food production. The major determining factor in agricultural production is the climate.