Droughts caused by global warming could set off a biochemical process in northern soils that would release large amounts of carbon dioxide into the air and possibly speed changes in the climate,

Panel : A U.N. panel on climate change predicts industrialized countries economic growth will be cut 0.2 to 2 percentage points if they reduce their emissions of greenhouse gases to the levels agreed

Fresh doubt has been cast on evidence for global warming following the discovery that a key method of measuring temperature change has exaggerated the warming rate by almost 40 percent. An

A new report by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) says climate changes in this century may have serious implications for U.S. coastal and marine resources, adding to stresses

The impact of global warming is more severe than first thought and the aftershocks of climate change will have a profound impact for centuries, said a major UN

The earth's atmosphere is warming faster than expected, evidence is mounting that humans are to blame and tens of millions of people may be forced from low-lying areas as seas rise, the UN said on

Janardhan Negi, a theoretical geophysicist and emeritus scientist at the National geophysical research institute (NGRI) in Hyderabad has made a controversial forecast that global warming phase while

Hoping to help break a political deadlock on global warming, a U.N.-sponsored gathering of scientists is working on the mostcomprehensive report yet on climate change blamed on air pollution. The

Researchers in US say they have slowed light to a dead stop, stored it and then released it as if it were an ordinary material particle. The achievement is a landmark feat that, by reining in

Scientists from 150 governments have begun a four-day meeting in Shanghai to try to agree on what evidence of global warming should be used to set global environmental