Australia's refusal to ratify the Kyoto protocol on greenhouse gas reductions was a humiliating decision for a country that should be a leader in developing non-polluting energy, environmentalist

Global warming could shift the ranges of many songbirds - leaving some U.S. states without their official state birds, warns a new study. Climate models project that the range of some state birds

The United States is in the front ranks of nations committed to combating global climate change, the U.S. ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Stephan M. Minikes.

Not even a square inch of fresh land will be submerged, as claimed by the Kerala Government, if water level in the Periyar Dam is restored to 142

The British government has pledged to ratify the Kyoto Treaty on cutting greenhouse gases within weeks, following a European Union agreement to enshrine the protocol in law.

The Framework Convention on Climate Change FCCC, signed by 152 nations at the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development, was the initial international response to global warming. The

Britain called for the United States to commit to the Kyoto treaty on cutting the pollution blamed for global warming. The U.S., the world's number one polluter, pulled out of the pact last year

On March 4th, in a unanimous vote, EU environment ministers formally agreed to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, which legally binds member states to their greenhouse gas reduction commitments, averaging an

At a time when several donor agencies are threatening to withdraw their projects from Nepal due to lack of security, the Global Environment Facility (GEF) of the United Nation's Development Programme

Global warming is becoming an increasing threat to forests in much of the world, paving the way for fires, droughts and pest infestations, officials told an environmental conference.