The European Union sought to underline its claim to "green" credentials at the summit Gothenburg by promising rapid ratification of the Kyoto Protocol to limit greenhouse gas emissions and mapping

President George W. Bush's overseas trip has done nothing to narrow the gap between his administration and Europe on global warming. For their part, the Europeans accept the over-whelming scientific

Proposals put forward by U.S. President W. Bush on combating global warming would set efforts to grapple with this environmental challenge back by 10 years. Some of the measures Bush announced before

A pro-Narmada dam non-political and non-government organisation to counter the campaign by the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) was launched in Gujarat under the banner 'Narmada Samarthan'. Talking to

The crisis triggered by the explosive disclosure made by a junior minister, divested of his portfolio, of Union Government's directive to Karnataka not to desilt tanks in the Cauvery river basin

European Union leaders on Saturday provisionally agreed to have a Kyoto ratification document ready before the end of 2001 so members could rapidly sign up to the landmark treaty on limiting

The realisation that environmental issues require global cooperation has done little to unite the world behind an agreed plan of action. Successive international conference have only emphasised the

This is probably the first of its kind in the world. Spread across an expansive 200-acre plot in the Yamuna basin, a bio-diversity forest" will soon become a reality. The thick green carpet,

Japan will not ratify the 1997 Kyoto Protocol to curb global warming if the United States stays out of it, Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka said

In recent days, President Bush has repeatedly said a major reason for his rejection of a proposed agreement to stem global warming is that it would require industrialized countries to cut