The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development called for urgent action to address climate change in a report on sustainable development published as background to a ministerial meeting

One of the UK's largest industrial groups, ICI, has met a tough self-imposed five-year challenge to reduce its energy use by 10 per cent for every tonne of product it makes. The group says that in

Scientists all over the world are now convinced that global warming is real and the planet is getting warmer day by day. There is no controversy in naming the culprit--carbon dioxide, a natural

Pressure mounted on the Australian government yesterday to resume international climate change talks after a report by a government agency foreshadowed a dramatic surge in temperatures in the next 70

A national campaign in UK to boycott Esso petrol stations was launched by an alliance of environmental groups, backed by celebrities such as Bianca Jagger and Annie Lennox. The Stop Esso Campaign is

Australia, where farmers already battle with some of the world's harshest weather conditions, is expected to become even hotter and drier, with average temperatures forecast to increase by up to 6

Australia's harsh weather will get even hotter and the parched continent even drier over the next 70 years unless the world curbs its greenhouse gas emissions, the nation's leading scientists

The next round of climate change negotiations scheduled to take place in Bonn in July this year is dead even before it begins. This is all because the US, the largest contributor to greenhouse gases

Japan's role in the international diplomatic debate over global warming has become more complicated since the U.S. said it would withdraw from the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. That hard-won agreement bound

Ford Motor Co is expected to release a report this week saying it believes global warming is a serious issue it must address, the Wall Street Journal reported in its on-line edition on Wednesday.