Japan has a pivotal role to play as efforts persist around the world to keep alive the Kyoto global warming treaty, a position based as much on sentiment as cold facts. For Japan was the site of the

Germany may be the European heavyweight champion of climate protection, boxing clever with big emission reduction goals, but its energy industry is throwing limp punches at the latest environmental

Japan's support for the US rejection of the Kyoto global warming treaty apparently ensures the pact will not take effect, energy secretary Spencer Abraham said on Sunday. Mr Abraham welcomed the

They've outlived the dinosaurs and a whole lot more, but global warming may yet kill off the coelacanth. Scientists fear the coelacanth - a "living fossil" fish that has been swimming the seas for an

Japan has not abandoned hope that the United States can be lured back to the Kyoto climate treaty and might propose changes to make the pact more palatable to Washington, Tokyo's top government

With its oceans, shifting clouds, volcanoes and human emissions of heat-trapping gases and sun-blocking haze, earth remains a puzzle, said Dr. Michael E. Schlesinger, who directs climate research at

Japan is in the driver's seat to determine whether a global climate treaty will ever take effect. And supporters of the treaty say that they were discouraged by the remarks made by Prime Minister

A coalition of Canadian environmental groups on Friday urged the government to set up a special C$2 billion fund ($1.3 billion) to start clearing up around 10,000 toxic waste sites scattered across

Japan is in the driver's seat to determine whether a global climate treaty will ever take effect. And supporters of the treaty said yesterday that they were discouraged by the remarks made on

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said Saturday that Japan will continue urging the United States to reverse its decision to withdraw from the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on curbing global warming. "I have