Calling global warming "a real phenomenon" the Environmental Protection Agency chief, Christe Whitman has said the Bush Administration is considering limits on carbon dioxide emissions as part of a

Japan was widely criticized for failing to provide strong leadership in the run-up to a United Nations summit on climate change that it hosted in Kyoto in 1997. Three years on, the lack of leadership

Pesticides are killing frogs and other amphibian species in the US

At Brazil's main airports leaflets will be distributed warning passengers of the danger of contracting potentially fatal blood clots on long-haul flights. The threat of suffering deep-vein thrombosis

Scientists meeting in San Francisco a week ago heard a startling prediction: The seemingly indestructible snows of Kilimanjaro may well disappear in the next 15 years. To most mainstream scientists,

Less than a week after a United Nations report warned of the devastating effects of global warming, the Australian Government has called on the community to take shorter showers and wash clothes in