It is now too late to halt global warming and time is fast running out to prevent other environmental catastrophes, the U.N.'s environment agency said in a major

Global warming has forced Australia's rarest marsupials to seek refuge on the country's highest mountains with no avenue for further retreat, researchers said on Monday. Australian governement

Politicians must work harder to agree on mechanisms to limit the emission of greenhouse gases if the Kyoto protocol on climate change is to be implemented, a senior United Nations official said

Sulphur emissions from cargo ships are causing ocean and coastal pollution and affecting scientific understanding of global climate change, researchers said.

The National Ice Center in Washington has warned that a huge iceberg is threatening shipping between South America and Antarctica. The iceberg named B-10A, measures 24 by 48 miles and is in the

Right now, the global warming debate bears an eerie resemblance to the smoking debate several decades ago. Back then, smokers might have been wheezing and coughing, but the tobacco companies were

Indian industry is willing to take part in the clean development mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto protocol of 1997, if a national mechanism is set up to ensure that the industry does not have to sell

The earth's average surface temperature in 1998 is the highest by far since people first began to measure it with thermometers in the mid-19th century, the world Meteorological Organization reported.

The European Union's new environment commissioner called for the EU to emulate a controversial US initiative by setting up a "bourse" enabling countries to buy or sell national quotas in the gases

About three-quarters of environmental experts in industrialized countries believe it will be impossible to achieve an international target to cut greenhouse gas emissions to levels recorded in the