The Bush administration said yesterday it would spend nearly $25 million to help fund eight projects to study methods for capturing and safely storing carbon gases blamed for global warming. The

The Body Shop said yesterday it will become the first company to publicly back a UK boycott of Esso service stations in protest at its parent company's support for the U.S. withdrawal from the Kyoto

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 last several

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