The European Union will not change its position toward the Kyoto Protocol despite the U.S. rejection of the pact, French President Jacques Chirac told Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on

Voluntary actions by industry, governments and organisations are leading to small but significant reductions in emissions of global warming gases worldwide, the United Nations Environment Programme

In terms of biodiversity, the Northern Territory was no Daintree Rainforest 1.5 billion years ago, but it will today be declared the home of the planet's oldest known "modern" ecosystem. In the

Germany's Environment Minister Juergen Trittin voiced cautious optimism in an interview published yesterday about the prospects of global climate talks to be held Bonn later this month. "We still

The VCI German chemical industry association yesterday called on the United States to back the Kyoto protocol to reduce greenhouse gases, saying it made economic sense to find more efficient ways of

Preliminary estimates by DOE's Energy Information Administration (EIA) find that U.S. carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels rose 2.7 percent in 2000, the highest growth rate since 1996.

The ice that covers most of Greenland and the air swirling above the ice probably hold the answers to important questions about Earth's past, present and future climates.Greenland's brief summer

Although France wants the United States to return to the Kyoto Protocol on global warming, its priority is to put the pact into force, French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin told Prime Minister

Anyone interested in clearly understanding Japan's position on the Kyoto Protocol on global warming would search in vain through Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's statements over the past several

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 on Saturday by Prime