Like a fox with some feathers on its face, a distant star shows telltale signs of having eaten a planet, astronomers said this week. "We report the discovery of lithium in the atmosphere of a

The North pole isn't melting after all, says a researcher in Sweden. Recent reports that ice in the Arctic is rapidly disappearing have been taken as graphic proof of global warming.

The OECD international thinktank urged ministers from the industrial world meeting in Paris yesterday to do more to tackle global warming, warning current policies would lead to a surge in greenhouse

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