US President George W Bush has announced a number of new research initiatives designed to increase understanding of climate change and tackle the phenomenon without the need to damage the US economy,

US senators on Wednesday considered legislation to start the United States on a course to curb its greenhouse gas emissions, blamed for global warming, but the plan does not propose mandated carbon

The United States, the world's biggest greenhouse gas polluter, looked isolated at a third day of UN talks on global warming on Wednesday in the former West German capital, Bonn. But President George

Canada reaffirmed on Wednesday its commitment to meet its targets for greenhouse gas emission cuts under the 1997 Kyoto climate change protocol. "I think it is clear for all of us - and Canada is

The increase in the global temperatures over the next century is likely to fall into a range between 4 and 7 degrees Fahrenheit, a new statistical analysis shows. This is a smaller range than the one

Developing countries and the European Union opposed on Tuesday a joint proposal by Japan, Canada, Australia and Russia on getting credit for carbon dioxide emissions absorbed by forests under the

Japan urged the US on Tuesday to rethink its opposition to a treaty limiting emissions of "greenhouse gases", but also said the rest of the world could not wait too long. "For all countries,

If the Sun got hotter, would we care? Probably not, according to Hsien-Wang Ou of the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York, Water, he suggested in the Journal of Climate,

As anarchists in Genoa prepared to storm the G8 summit this weekend, a new breed of protester was on the streets of Bonn on Wednesday - clean-cut conservatives opposing the climate treaty being

Efforts to reach an agreement on the Kyoto global warming pact go into high gear on Thursday when environment ministers meet to see if they can put it into force, even without the planet's biggest