Members of the European Parliament have voted 540 to four, with 10 abstentions to approve the adoption and implementation of the Kyoto Protocol by the EU. In a debate on 5 February, the MEPs insisted

In a challenge to the rest of the world's increasing fears about the effect of climate change, the United States has decided not to set any targets for reducing its own massive emissions and to adopt

Two new reports by U.S. and international conservation groups detail the extensive threats to wildlife and biodiversity hotspots posed by global warming. Saying the studies provide further evidence

The Bush administration is readying a proposal on global warming to issue before the president leaves for Asia next week, hoping to ease concerns by allies and environmentalists following the

Global warming could wipe out some of Australia's best loved animals and plants in parts of the country before the end of the century, environmentalists warned on Monday.

Japan's emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) due to energy consumption in the fiscal year ended March 2001 rose by 1.1 percent from a year earlier to about 1.16 billion tonnes, the Trade Ministry said.

German and British carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions rose in 2001 for the second year running, and in both countries by more than in 2000, according to independent forecasters. Emissions of carbon

A recent study in the journal Science reports that ice in West Antarctica is thickening, not melting. That follows a separate study in Nature that says Antarctica's desert valleys -a bellwether for

Business and governments are still looking for cost-effective ways to cut their emissions of greenhouse gases though some of the heat has gone out the the issue of global climate change.

Tuvalu, a tiny Pacific paradise, is sinking into the sea, a victim of global warming. Climate change is one of the driving forces making people migrate. Even though they want to stay in this free and