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Australia would suffer some economic pain in trying to meet greenhouse targets under the Kyoto protocol, the national environment ambassador told a parliamentary inquiry yesterday.Ralph Hillman told

Land clearing and road construction could soon be subject to stricter Australian government's environment controls focusing on their potential to produce greenhouse gases. Greenhouse-impact tests

Jupiter's moon Europa has a salt-water ocean beneath its icy surface which may harbour life, according to an analysis of the data sent back to earth by the Galileo spacecraft and reported in the

India's Ministry of Environment and Forests and the United Kingdom's Department of the Environment, Transport and Regions (DETR) have joined forces on a three-year study into the potential effects

Japan's Environmental Agency said on Friday it plans to introduce by 2005 new rules aimed at sharply cutting pollutant emissions from diesel vehicles. "The issue of pollutants emitted from diesel

A new $150 million fund aimed at conserving the world's top biodiversity hotspots, containing 60% of terrestrial species, has been announced by the World Bank.The new Critical Ecosystem Partnership

Texas three natural resource commissioners, all appointees of Governor George Bush, say that global warming is a serious problem and that the state will explore ways to cut its emissions of

Studies by a prominent campaigner for carbon dioxide cuts says that non-CO2 gases are the main cause of current global warming trends.Research by Dr. James E. Hansen, a principal author of one of the

Cars may be the main source of haze-inducing ammonia, rather than livestock, as previously thought, according to research presented at the 220th national meeting of the American Chemical

A research programme examining the impacts of climate change in India has been launched by the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR) and the Indian Ministry of the

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