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

Jan Pronk, chairperson of climate change talks held in New York, offers a compromise plan that gives away too much on sinks

The three ruling coalition parties plan to make companies responsible for the recovery and disposal of chlorofluorocarbon gases, sources at the parties said. The Liberal Democratic Party, New

The decision by President George W. Bush to withdraw the U.S. from the 1997 Kyoto Protocol to cut carbon dioxide emissions has clouded international efforts to combat climate change. In order to

March 2001 may well go down in the history of the climate change negotiations as the worst phase in the efforts at limited anthropogenic emissions known to cause global warming. On March 13,

Desert dust and slightly diminish estimates on how warm the world will become, based on findings of how mach sunlight is absorbed by dust. Scientists studying dust blowing off the Sahara Desert

The head of the U.N. forum on climate change said yesterday he would consult with several countries to help draft an outline pact on cutting global warming gases in the run-up to a July U.N.