River water sharing project brings Israel and Lebanon on the brink of war

European farmland birds are dying out due to highly mechanised agricultural practices

Global warming could be behind the mysterious deaths of giant squid off the north coast of Spain, a marine biologist said. Experts at a marine life protection centre in the northern region of

The European Union took a significant step towards setting up a system of emissions trading for the gases blamed for global warming, a key factor in its strategy to meet the exacting goals of the

Some 11,170 plant and animal species face extinction, Swiss-based World Conservation Union (IUCN) said today. The IUCN's "Red List of Threatened Species" says Indonesia, India, Brazil and China are

Global warming could increase rice, soybean and wheat production in some areas, but the greater plant growth could also hurt the nutritional value of the crops, Ohio researchers said. The nutritional

The global temperature will increase by about 1.4 to 5.8 degrees Celsius by the year 2010, making the mean sea level rise by around 9.88 centimetres and causing flooding of low lying areas. and the

The United States, which has withdrawn from the Kyoto Protocol on Green House Gas (GHG) emissions, is actually helping developing countries achieve the ecological objectives of the protocol in a