Australia will suffer economic pain as it attempts to meet greenhouse targets, the nation's environment ambassador told a parliamentary committee reviewing the Kyoto Protocol. Dr Ralph Hillman said

Australian scientists, looking for ways to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, have dumped 10 tonnes of iron in the ocean off Antartica. The iron caused giant blooms of marine

The Canadian cabinet has approved a $500-million plan to combat global warming that goes one-third of the way to meeting the emissions-reduction targets it agreed to in Kyoto, Japan, three years

Several Republican senators expressed strong concerns that talks to flesh out details of a global-warming treaty signed by the administration in 118 would never produce a document that the senate

As cities grow, they become hotter, more humid and - in summer - less tolerable as places to live and to work. Although meteorologists have recognised the "urban heat island" phenomenon for decades,

Several U.S. companies are taking concerns about global climate change seriously and launching voluntary programs to measure and reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, according to a report released

A global warming pact reached by a U.N. conference will have significant but varied economic impacts on developing countries, even though they have no emission targets, Australia's Bureau of

A global warming pact reached by a UN conference will have significant but varied economic impacts on developing countries, even though they have no emission targets, Australia's Bureau of

PCB-contaminated waste from U.S. military bases in Japan will be moved from Japan to Wake Island in the central Pacific by May 18 until a final decision on how to dispose of the waste is made, the

The World Bank and the Canadian Government are to set up a Can$20 million (US $14 million) trust fund to help developing countries reduce the release of persistent organic pollutants