Even Stuart Eizenstat, the man who negotiated the Kyoto Protocol, a UN treaty on climate change, on behalf of the Clinton Administration, thinks "with great remorse" that the Kyoto treaty is dead.

What is at stake in Bonn? That is the question hanging over the current gathering in Germany's former capital of the world's environment ministers to decide on the future of global climate change

Scientists planning the next phase of the human genome project are being forced to confront a treacherous issue: the genetic differences between human races. With the decoding of the human genome

Over four thousand city bus operators felt relieved after Nugas Technologies claimed to have obtained the certificate for conversion of diesel buses to CNG mode from Vehicle Research and Development

Tiny Tuvalu, which could be submerged by a rising Pacific Ocean within 50 years, has reached out for help to save its people but so far has had little luck with regional heavyweight Australia.

Australia, Japan and Canada are driving a hard bargain on key issues in the climate change negotiations, with the Europeans indicating they are prepared to make concessions for a deal on the Kyoto

Deep divisions emerged at negotiations on how to rescue a global warming treaty as government ministers entered the talks, with European countries opposing a drive led by Japan to loosen carbon

The United States' chief negotiator at UN climate talks in Bonn told delegates yesterday that Washington would not ratify the Kyoto accord on global warming, whatever the result of the meeting.

President George W. Bush was accused by senators in both parties and scientists on Wednesday of mishandling US policy on global warming. "The way President Bush handled this whole Kyoto thing - from

The Australian Government was being "morally irresponsible" by not offering the people of Tuvalu - a tiny South Pacific island nation threatened by rising seas - special immigration treatment, a