A wide range of major European Union industries will be forced to take part in buying and selling the right to emit carbon dioxide (CO2), under a draft EU law seen by Reuters on Friday. Oil refiners,

The Indian Summer of 2001 has broken all previous records--this time not in Celsius, but millimetres. It has been hot, but also wet, wet, wet--Gujarat's water tables are replenished, drought-prone

Scientists have detected a substantial drop during the past 50 years in the flow of cold deep sea water leaving the Arctic and pouring into the Atlantic Ocean between Iceland and Scotland. The study

Despite claims by the US government that China will soon become the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases, a new report has found that China has reduced its carbon dioxide emissions by 17%

Activist group Sierra Club of Canada gave the country's Liberal government poor grades on environmental issues on Tuesday, attacking particularly its greenhouse-gas-producing plans to export more

The man who will represent the European Union at climate change talks next month has challenged the other nations involved to say exactly where they stand on the Kyoto global warming pact. Belgian

Los Angeles could become as hot as central Mexico, wrapped in smothering smog in summer and wracked by violent winter storms, if the most dire projection for climate change plays out over the next 80

Britain's Labour government said yesterday it would push ahead with efforts to cut greenhouse gases by meeting its commitments under the Kyoto treaty, even though the pact has been abandoned by the

Scientists have detected a substantial drop in the last 50 years in the flow of cold deep sea water leaving the Arctic and pouring into the Atlantic between Iceland and Scotland. Climate experts say

Japan can cut its greenhouse gas output by 2 percent with the introduction of a carbon dioxide emissions tax, an environment committee said in an interim report released Wednesday. The committee