European leaders from the European Union and Japan threw their weight behind the increasingly fragile looking-Kyoto climate change accord but warned that it would be ineffective without the support

India will be the biggest loser from global warming, losing tens of millions of tonnes of its potential cereal harvest each year because of climate change, a study released in Amsterdam Tuesday said.

Japan is committed to persuading the United States to come back to the Kyoto pact on global warming but is in a quandary over how to achieve the goal, Environment Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi said

The United States said yesterday it would send a delegation to a major climate change conference on the so-called Kyoto accord in Germany this month, but made clear President George W. Bush's

Japan's total greenhouse gas emissions came to 1.3 billion tons in fiscal 1999, up 2.1 percent if calculated simply as carbon dioxide from the previous year and the first increase in three years,

Leading European climate change experts on Monday urged the world to forge ahead with the Kyoto agreement even without the participation of the United States, the world's biggest polluter. The head

Australia said yesterday no deal should be reached at the Bonn climate change talks next week in order to "leave the door open" for the United States to join any global agreement on cutting

Gas-guzzling sport utility vehicles are driving up Canada's greenhouse gas emissions, new figures indicate, and Environment Minister David Anderson says he's alarmed at the trend. Anderson said he is

Japanese officials pledged to help the European Union to try to persuade the Bush Administration to embrace the Kyoto Protocol to combat global warming, but stopped short of saying Japan would ratify

While policy makers aground the world grapple with the economic and political issues raised by climate change, there is now growing observational evidence that the earth is becoming warmer than at