The Kyoto Protocol will have virtually no impact on slowing global warming unless it expands to take in the United States, China and more developing countries, Russia's chief climate negotiator said on Wednesday.

Russia is the world's fourth largest emitter of carbon dioxide and a key player in United Nations talks about whether to extend Kyoto when its first phase lapses in 2013, or replace it

New York City just had its hottest June-to-August stretch on record. Moscow, suffering from a once-in-a-millennium heat wave, tallied thousands of deaths, a toll that included hundreds of inebriated, overheated citizens who stumbled into rivers and lakes and didn

Justin Gillis

Most researchers trained in climate analysis offer evidence to show that weather extremes are getting worse.

It will be a while before scientists publish definitive analyses of the Russian heatwave and the Pakistani floods, which might shed light on the role of climate change.

Sreeram Chaulia

But Experts Say An Year Of Extreme Weather No Proof Of Climate Change

Paris: As Russia battles wildfires triggered by an unprecedented heatwave, flood waters surge across a drenched Pakistan leaving millions of people homeless, and questions are asked about global warming.

Deaths in Moscow have doubled and are now averaging 700 people a day amid a sweltering heat wave and poisonous smog from wildfires, a top Russian health official said Monday.

Devastating floods in Pakistan and Russia