Norway may host top-level climate talks before Christmas to try to salvage a pact to curb global warning after last month's failed negotiations at The Hague, the Environment Ministry said on

When ministers from 178 countries agreed to rescue the Kyoto Protocol on climate change last month, they gave new impetus to the development of a multi-billion dollar carbon trading industry. This

The Netherlands' carbon dioxide emissions rose by one percent in 2000, driven by higher energy use, and are likely to continue increasing, a Dutch government research body said.

The Atlanta-based energy company, Mirant, has announced that it will fund at least $50 million in initiatives to help find solutions to global climate change and has released its first annual

A European youth movement that bet EU Environment Commissioner Margot Wallstr

The recent UN summit on global warming at The Hague was convened to carry forward the spirit of the 1997 Kyoto Treaty on climate change. The meeting of 185 countries however ended on an acrimonious

At the Bonn conference on climate control in late July, the European Union and developing countries made a significant concession to Japan in accepting a not totally justifiable demand. Japan has had

The Clinton administration said on Friday it was disappointed at the outcome of this week's meeting on a pact to curb global warming and said progress could occur only if the European Union offered a

Butterfly populations are booming, trees are coming into leaf sooner and birds nesting earlier as winters in Britain become wetter and warmer, researchers told a conference on climate change. As the

More than one-quarter of the world's coral reefs have been lost to global warming, pollution, fishing activity and other sources of stress, and 70 per cent could be dead within 50 years, the U.S.