Environment ministers from the Group of Eight major nations will strongly promote the ratification of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which aims to prevent global warming, during a three-day meeting

A second giant iceberg has broken off from Antarctica and is bumping into a huge iceberg that broke off the Ross Ice Shelf last week, researchers said on Friday. Matthew Lazzara of the University of

The gradual warming of the Arctic due to global climate change is seriously endangering the lives of birds in the polar area, the World Wildlife Fund (W.W.F.) said in a statement released on Monday.

The Global Climate Coalition has reacted with defiance to the decision by US oil giant Texaco not to renew its membership of the anti-Kyoto Protocol group. In a statement, the Global Climate

AP: The Andhra Pradesh government yesterday submitted before a five-judge constitution bench that Karnataka was trying to usurp the surplus water in the Krishna river and claiming the best of the two

After linking El Nino with illnesses such as malaria, cholera and dengue fever, scientists now have connected the climatic phenomenon with an increase in childhood diarrhea. The

For the first time, a team of scientists has identified the possible methane release site and critical sequence of events that precipitated Earth's bout with global warming, and the extinction of

The Himachal Pradesh government and the National Thermal Power Corporation(NTPC) have entered into a memorandum of understanding to construct and develop the 800 mw Kol hydel project in the

A report alerting state and federal legislators to potentially "fatal" environmental problems in the management of the Murray-Darling river system has been suppressed for more than a year. The

A single genetically-modified fish