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

Popular vacation spots like the alpine meadows of the Rocky Mountains and barrier islands off Florida may shrink or even disappear in the coming century beacause of global warming, U.S. government

It is a theory as simple as it is seductive. In a centuries-old explorers' dream come true, global warming within a few decades will have melted enough of the ice clogging the Northwest Passage for