The world is getting further off track in limiting global warming with setbacks in Japan and Australia outweighing positive signals from the United States and China, a study showed on Wednesday.

Zambia's staple food crop, maize, looks set to be significantly dented next year by a lack of rain that is delaying planting.

People around the world are feeling the "wrath of a warming planet", U.N.

China, the EU and environmentalists criticized Japan at U.N.

Haiti, the Philippines and Pakistan were hardest hit by weather disasters in 2012, a report issued at U.N.

Warsaw, Stockholm : Climate envoys from rich countries, emerging economies and low-lying nations at risk of being swamped by rising seas will meet in Poland for the next two weeks to lay the groundwork for a new global warming pact.

Though no major decisions are expected at the conference starting on Monday in Warsaw’s National Stadium, the level of progress could be an indicator of the world’s chances of reaching a deal in 2015. That’s the new watershed year in the UN-led process after a 2009 summit in Copenhagen ended in discord.

World governments are likely to recoil from plans for an ambitious 2015 climate change deal at talks next week, concern over economic growth at least partially eclipsing scientists' warnings of ris

* Pakistan at 135th position in carbon dioxide emissions, but ranked 3rd on the list of most vulnerable countries

* Annual cost of restoring environment is now up to $5.2

World governments are likely to recoil from plans for an ambitious 2015 climate change deal at talks next week, concern over economic growth at least partially eclipsing scientists' warnings of ris

China’s corn harvest is poised to decline for the first time in four years after flooding in its biggest-producing province and drought in its fifth largest cut yields, easing a global glut as the