The Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission (KERC) has granted exemption from supply licence to the 4 KW micro hydel demonstration project PICO Jalavidyut Yojana, which is being taken up at a

US President George Bush stunned the world when he rejected the Kyoto Protocol (KP), that addresses the issue of reducing the greenhouse gases (GHG) that cause global warming. More surprising is one

Australia and the European Union remained divided over how to progress with negotiations on the Kyoto climate-change protocol following high-level talks in Sydney on Friday. Australian Environment

One of the effects of global warming could be the spread of the disease-carrying Asian tiger mosquito, a new study warns. Two researchers at Illinois State University found that the Asian tiger

A European Union delegation on Friday lobbied a lukewarm Australian government to stick to its commitments under the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on cutting greenhouse gas emissions, and not back Washington'

A high-level European Union delegation had no luck yesterday in its attempt to persuade the Australian Government to ratify the Kyoto agreement on climate change. Cabinet is set to decide Australia's

The chairman of a United Nations conference negotiating a climate treaty has said that he is willing to delay the target date when countries would have to start cutting emissions of heat-trapping

Not without America, Junichiro Koizumi told his friends in Washington at the weekend. Together with Europe, he said in Britain on Monday. On July 4th, with Japan's prime minister now in Paris, his

Experiments show that genes used in cloning often fail to work properly, causing serious abnormalities in mice, a finding that confirms the belief of many researchers that the method used to clone

The Environment Agency in UK is warning of the dangers of climate change following the need to top up levels on the River Ouse, in East Sussex, from a local reservoir after levels dropped to the