Whirlpool of India (WoI) has announced the commissioning of its state-of-the-art facility for the production of environment-friendly non-chloro fluorocarbon frost free refrigerators at Rabjangaon in

Coral reefs around the world are under threat from global emissions of greenhouse gases, a group of scientific experts warned on Wednesday. Rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are

The costs of implementing the global warming treaty are likely to be small, the Clinton Administration's top economic adviser predicted, drawing bipartisan skepticism from a House subcommittee. Janet

A substantial Antarctic 'ice shelf' could disappear before the end of the century, according to a report in a recent issue of Nature. Crucially, its collapse could happen almost without warning and

An international treaty to fight global warming and reduce heat trapping fossil fuel emissions would have little effect on United States employment and a fairly modest effect on energy prices,

Sumitomo, the Japanese trading house is to help a Russian power generating group reduce its emissions to greenhouse gases. The deal could provide Japan with credit towards it own greenhouse gas

In a major shift in the debate over global warming a growing number of major oil company executives are acknowledging that fossil fuels may be changing the world's climate and have begun focussing on

A joint research team from Osaka University, the University of Shizuoka and Takenaka Corp. has developed a technology using a fungus that secretes a potent degradative enzyme. These can then be used

The government is gearing up a national drive to cut greenhouse gas emissions in line with the agreement reached at the international climate change conference in Kyoto in Decemeber. The Environment

Scientists at Oxford University, UK, have found a way to increase the starch content of potato, maize and rice. Starch is the single largest