As concern over climate change heats up, electrical utilities and other polluters are investing in tropical forests. By protecting existing forests or growing new ones, companies hope to use the

Almost 400 acres of trees have been planted in Tennessee by a Houston-based energy company that is replenishing forests in the Lower Mississippi Valley in anticipation of federal rules that may allow

If the current warming trend continues, don't depend on low-level clouds to come to the Earth's rescue, according to NASA researchers. A cloud's thickness and brightness influences how the planet

Europe's biggest glacier is about to disintergate. The mighty Breidamerkurjokull in southern Iceland is breaking apart and will slide into the north Atlantic in the next few

Canada's environment ministers wrapped up a two-day meeting with a new plan to cut greenhouse gases. But Ontario rejected the plan, infuriating environmentalists and other delegates. The strategy is

The floods that have ravaged Britain in recent weeks are the result of global warming, according to a senior government minister. In the first official admission that climate change was to blame,

The Clinton Administration is proposing "loopholes" in the global warming treaty that are so big the United States could get away with doing almost nothing to comply, environmentalists say. A key

Americans favored Republican presidential nominee George W. Bush and running mate Dick Cheney's position on the global warming treaty, which placed tougher standards on U.S. industries and not on

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the chemicals company, Cheminova, have signed an agreement to end all use of the organophosphate pesticide ethyl parathion.The new agreement immediately

Iron fertilisation in the Southern Ocean has been found to increase the growth of algae on the water's surface, and consequently to increase the up-take of the greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide. The