A high-level mission from the European Union pushed Japan on Monday to quickly ratify the Kyoto Protocol on climate change to put the treaty into effect, while calling for continued dialogue with the

A senior U.N. scientist yesterday urged the world's rich states to strike a deal over the Kyoto treaty on curbing global warming even if it meant softening targets to accommodate Washington.

Leading European climate change experts yesterday 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

Federal cabinet yesterday agreed on the negotiating position Australia will take at crucial international climate talks later this month, maintaining that the Kyoto protocol should not be ratified

Japan rebuffed pressure from the European Union to ratify the ailing Kyoto climate treaty, insisting US participation was essential if it were to have any meaning.

It was on June 12 last year before the monsoon struck the Capital that a letter from the Delhi Chief Minister's Office was despatched to five residents' welfare associations (RWAs) who had shown

Forests and farmlands cannot be relied on to soak up environmentally damaging greenhouse gases, and cuts in emissions are the only long-term way to reduce global warming, scientists said on today. A

The Belgian Environment Minister, Ms. Magda Aelvoet, said she did not rule out the possibility of revising the Kyoto pact on global warming to try to bring the United States back on board, a Japanese

Scientists from the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) are undertaking a collaborative project with Japanese experts to study effects of global warming patterns by utilising the unique solar data

Milder weather in Sweden in recent years, possibly linked to global warming, has led to a sharp rise in the number of cases of tick-borne encephalitis, or inflammation of the brain, scientists said