State vehicle emission testing programs have had little impact on getting the worst polluting vehicles off the road, according to a report by the US National Research Council of the National

The Assam Government is planning to impose a ban on plying of old commercial vehicles within the greater Guwahati area to reduce the pollution caused by vehicular emission, said Minister of State for

A tiny South Pacific group of islands is appealing for help on the Internet to stop its 500 people vanishing into the ocean because of rising sea levels they blame on climate change. As the world

The United Nations' traveling climate circus has pitched its tent in Bonn - but this time as talks on the Kyoto global warming pact get under way, the jugglers and the clowns have stayed at home.

The United States, the world's biggest greenhouse gas polluter, looked isolated as UN talks on global warming went into a third day on Wednesday in the former West German capital, Bonn. Japan, the

Japan was set to submit a new proposal Tuesday to ongoing U.N. climate talks here that would allow a greater portion of the greenhouse gas reduction targets specified in the 1997 Kyoto Protocol to be

A tiny South Pacific group of atolls is appealing for help on the Internet to stop its 500 people vanishing into the ocean because of rising sea levels they blame on climate change. As the world

A warmer than average winter and spring is forecast for most of Australia, according to the latest three-month climate outlook released by the Bureau of Meteorology on Tuesday. A 60 percent chance of

A new strategy to combat global warming is in the offing on Monday amid the perception that the two-week United Nations climate conference in Germany may not be able to bridge the divide between the

Japan and Canada are pressing demands for more leeway in meeting anti-pollution targets under a climate change pact, putting them at odds with European countries in the latest round of talks,