Of five European Union countries reviewed in a newly-released report, only the UK is currently on track to achieve its Kyoto Protocol emissions reduction target. Germany, the Netherlands, Austria and

The future of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on climate change is being jeopardised by the failure of much of Europe, as well as the US, to curb greenhouse gas emissions, according to new research by an

A high ranking U.S. negotiator on climate change has slammed critics of the Clinton administration who complain that the United States is not doing enough to curb greenhouse gas emissions. At a

If the tiny island nation of Tuvalu were to sink beneath the waves, then New Zealand and other South Pacific countries would come to its rescue, New Zealand Foreign Minister Phil Goff said on

Republican and Democratic leaders in the Legislature announced today that they had reached agreement on legislation that would allow county governments to mandate that people be notified when

If global warming and its effects continue at present rates for the rest of the century, the tristate region around New York City will face much more frequent and more severe floods, more sickness

The Institute of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) has criticised the UK Government's draft climate change policy saying that it lacks long term thinking and planning.Although the IChemE has historically

U.S. environmental activist groups yesterday criticised the negotiating stance taken by the Clinton administration at talks in Bonn, Germany, for settling an international treaty to reduce greenhouse

Sea levels have been rising around the globe for the past 40 years but the Mediterranean is shrinking, New Scientist magazine said. Global warming has increased ocean levels by more than one

The Clinton administration's global warming report, released in draft this week, is a puzzling document. It touts assumptions far more pessimistic than those in mainstream climatology. And while