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Rice fields are adding gases to the atmosphere that are contributing to global warming and the destruction of the ozone layer, American scientists say. A team of researchers found that the

As England endured its worst floods for 40 years this week, environmental campaigners were quick to point to a worrying global trend. Recent storms in Taiwan, Brazil and Canada, floods in the Alps,

Italy's first transport plan supplies no targets and favours road transport, the country's two leading environmental groups say.The recently-unveiled 10-year governmental transport plan pledges some

Rice paddy fields emit a significant amount stratospheric ozone depleting methyl halide gases, say researchers at the University of California, Irvine (UCI).According to the study carried out through

The first climate impact assessment report for the European Union has painted a gloomy picture for poorer European regions in the east and south, but cites some positive benefits for the Northwest.

The Irish Government has published its Climate Control Strategy, which it describes as ambitious and far-reaching, and includes features such as a substantial cut in the number of livestock by 2010

The U.S. Department of Energy has announced that CO2 emissions increased 1.3%, and all greenhouse houses gases by 0.8% in 1999.The Department of Energy has announced that CO2 emissions increased

Ten Asian countries are strengthening their efforts to save their forests and buildings from the growing rate of acid rain, with the permanent formation of the Acid Deposition Monitoring Network in

Japan's ability to meet its Kyoto obligations has been cast into doubt because of a disagreement over terminology.Instead of basing its plan on reducing greenhouse gases on guidelines issued by the

Indonesia could lose 2,000 of its 17,000 islands if global warming continues, an environmental expert told a climate change conference in

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