Denmark's self-styled 'sceptical environmentalist', Bjorn Lomborg, is no stranger to controversy, but his recent elevation to one of the country's senior environment jobs has shocked green

Two influential Canadian business groups urged Ottawa not to ratify the Kyoto protocol on global warming, saying that to do so would cost thousands of jobs and billions of dollars.

The tiny South Pacific state of Tuvalu appealed to regional power Australia to take a tougher stance against global warming that threatens to sink the low-lying island nation. Prime Minister Koloa

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