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Conflicting arguments over the costs of meeting Kyoto emissions targets emerged in two new studies published this week, with one predicting economic slowdown in Europe and millions of lost jobs,

The Senate's second-ranking Democrat endorsed a compromise plan for U.S. companies to voluntarily report their greenhouse gas emissions for five years, shifting to mandatory reporting if companies

An estimated 3.5 billion tons of carbon dioxide, a major greenhouse gas, could be removed from the atmosphere by using farmland and forests to absorb it, a U.S. Energy Department researcher said. The

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions as called for by the United Nations Kyoto Protocol would cut Britain's GDP growth rate, economists said. 'Under the protocol growth would be slowed from 2.4 percent

California lawmakers are looking at limiting greenhouse gas emissions, a move automakers call a veiled effort to tighten fuel economy standards and push gas-guzzling sport utility vehicles off the

Ministers left The Hague after a two week meeting that charts a course for global action on biological diversity through 2010. Representatives of 166 countries agreed detailed guidelines on access to

Lakes in the Himalayas are filling so rapidly because of rising temperatures that they could burst their banks within a decade, sending walls of water crashing down into valleys, the United Nations

More than 40 lakes high in the Himalayas, formed from rapidly melting glaciers, are expected to burst their banks in the next five years, sending millions of gallons of water and rock cascading on to

The Kyoto protocol will fall far short of its goals to cut greenhouse gases because of the pullout by the United States and possible foot dragging by Canada, but it is still a pact worth fighting

For months now the world's major powers have twiddled their thumbs politely as they waited for Canada to stop its endless agonizing over whether to ratify the Kyoto protocol on global warming.

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