Adopting a new version of the 1997 climate treaty that the Bush administration rejected as harmful to the US economy would save the nation more than $50 billion annually in energy-related costs by

Japan will make a proposal at the climate talks in Bonn that may be a desperate attempt both to keep the Kyoto Protocol alive and to avoid proceeding without U.S. participation, Kyodo news agency

President Bush today promoted a number of studies and other measures intended to address the impact of greenhouse gases, including a $120 million NASA research project to examine more thoroughly the

Canada has announced that its 1999 output of greenhouse gases was 15% higher than in 1990 but says it can still meet its emission target set under the Kyoto Protocol, which environmentalists say is

US President George W. Bush declared the Kyoto climate change deal dead earlier this year. Despite that, some 180 countries will meet in Bonn next week to try to salvage the pact.

Japan's prime minister, who has left a trail of confusion over his shifting stance on the issue of global warming, may soon be forced to say whether he will kill the first international treaty on

Governments start climate talks in Bonn, western Germany, on July 16 in an effort to salvage the Kyoto climate change protocol thrown into doubt after the United States rejected the greenhouse gas

The resort island nation of the Maldives, threatened by the fallout from global warming, appealed to the United States on Wednesday to follow the European Union in backing the Kyoto pact on climate

Belgium, holder of the European Union's rotating presidency, said yesterday it would seek assurances from US President George W. Bush that he will not try to block next week's international talks in

Future changes in the earth's climate may happen suddenly, triggered by man-made factors such as smokestacks and exhaust pipes, scientists said yesterday. "We are heading into uncharted waters and it