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Australia inks pact with the US outside the Kyoto Protocol

Around 55 million years ago, Earth's climate underwent a short but intense bout of global warming, accompanied by dramatic shifts in plant and animal life. Of particular interest to paleontologists

Observations of two stars, one unusually small and the other unusually cold, have led astronomers to think they are seeing evidence of a new form of matter and a new kind of star, one possible made

The creators of Dolly, the world's first cloned sheep, will soon seek permission to carry out experiments on human embryos, one of the scientists said. The Roslin Institute, near Edinburg, Scotland,

Early implementation of emission trading schemes will help cut the costs associated with the reduction in greenhouse gases required under the Kyoto Protocol by as much as EUR80 billion by 2017,

The United States will come under more pressure over its decision to abandon the Kyoto climate change accord when environment ministers from the world's leading countries meet this weekend in Canada.

The recent Supreme Court ruling, ordering transporters to keep their diesel buses off New Delhi's roads, or pay a hefty fine of Rs 1,000 per day, has sparked off a race to bag the maximum orders

The United States and Japan have agreed to cooperate to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases that cause global warming. In a joint statement, the countries said they would investigate market

A federal appeals court last week upheld a Bush administration decision setting car and truck emission standards for St. Louis, denying a challenge by the Sierra Club. The green group in 1998 filed a

Japan faces the first real test of its readiness to battle global warming since the launch of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on green-gas emissions. On March 19, the Japanese Government announced new

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