The German Environment Minister has announced that the country will cut its oil dependence and be able to meet its Kyoto obligations on time."We shall make sure Germany maintains its top position on

A research group report has said that the European Union will fail to meet its obligations for reducing CO2 emissions under the Kyoto Protocol because of a failure to implement the necessary

A bacterium that last flourished before dinosaurs tore flesh or the Appalachian Mountains emerged has been revived from a drop of fluid trapped in a crystal of rock salt for 250 million years, say

Germany announced new measures yesterday to ensure it becomes one of the few industrial nations to fulfil promised cuts in the "greenhouse gases" blamed for global warming, and urged the rest of the

DuPont,Shell,Alcan Aluminium and four other large companies have joined a growing list of businesses committing themselves to substantial voluntary reductions in releases of heat-trapping greenhouse

Severe climate changes 34 million years ago wiped out 90 percent of all tiny sea creatures living along the Gulf Coast in the United States, scientists said on Wednesday. Until now, researchers had

Seven major international corporations yesterday formed a new partnership for cutting greenhouse gas emissions using market-based methods, even before a possible political settlement is negotiated at

- The Ontario government has refused to participate in a national plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming. At the conclusion yesterday of a meeting of environment and energy

The European Union will miss a legally binding target to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions because it lacks the necessary policies to combat the greenhouse effect, a study published yesterday

DuPont Shell, Alcan Aluminium and four other large companies yesterday joined a growing list of businesses committing themselves to substantial voluntary reductions in releases of heat-trapping