Hailing a step forward in attempts to save the planet, the EU reaffirmed its commitment to the Kyoto treaty on global warming - and told the US that it should make the same commitment. EU environment

The 15 European Union member states agreed to be formally bound by the Kyoto treaty on cutting the pollution blamed for global warming, a pact that the U.S. has rejected. The Kyoto Protocol to the

Kochi has been selected as one of the centres for a major study, undertaken by the US-based Oakridge National Laboratory, to measure the phenomenon of global warming. Kochi is the only centre in the

A "Jal Sammelan" scheduled in Delhi's Nizamuddin for two days from March 5 will present an alternative to the draft National Water Policy, to be tabled in Parliament likely on March 16. The members

The Council of European Union environment ministers adopted the European Commission's proposal to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, an international agreement to curb the emission of greenhouse gases

The Netherlands set the pace in the European Union for ratification of a contentious global pact to cut emissions of harmful greenhouse gases after its legislators backed the 1997 Kyoto treaty. The

Australia said a bilateral agreement with the United States on climate change would not undermine the international Kyoto treaty to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Environmental groups have accused

When the federal environment minister, David Anderson, in charge of implementing the Kyoto agreement on global warming, recently asked his cabinet colleagues to drive smaller, more fuel efficient

Studies of how to use human embryo cells to develop new treatments for a vast range of diseases, from Parkinson's to diabetes, began in earnest in Britain on

Long-term cooperation between the space research agencies of India and Brazil was further strengthened with the signing of an MoU between the Indian Space Research Organisation and the Brazilian