Ministers from industrialised countries meeting in Paris yesterday struggled to avoid a public dispute over global warming ahead of a crucial US announcement on its energy and environmental policy.

A researcher says he found big discrepancies in a fruit-fly gene map assembled by a private company, and he accused the commercial venture of rushing too fast to publish.The paper by Stanford

ASEAN environment ministers meeting in Phnom Penh expressed "deep concern" over the U.S. rejection of the Kyoto Protocol on global warming, saying the 1997 accord should not be renegotiated to fit

Despite the Bush Administration's decision to back away from regulating emissions of global warming gases, many multinational companies plan to continue reducing such emissions because they face

In the debate on climate change, the oil companies are in the front line, often literally. In the past week ExxonMobil, the world's largest listed oil company, has become the target of a boycott by

When environment ministers in the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development meet in Paris, global warming will feature high on the agenda. The meeting is the first of several attempts in

Rising sea levels may not be connected to global warming and a U.N. report making the link is simplistic, a world authority on sea changes said yesterday. Rising sea levels may instead be caused by

Ocean whitecaps, the study says, may have a surprisingly big effect on climate, even on global warming, simply because they are light in color and reflect the sun's radiant energy back into space.

Global warming could weaken the ice-soil mixture called permafrost in areas surrounding the Arctic Circle, causing damage to buildings, pipelines and electricity generating stations, according to a

Engineers in Singapore and China have developed audio beams that will help reduce noise pollution due to high decibel sound. The audio beam can focus a narrow beam of sound, just like a beam of