Another earthquake shook the Italian town of L

The United States will agree to a goal to limit global warming to no more than 2 degrees Celsius at next week's Group of Eight summit, a senior European official involved in preparing the meeting said on Wednesday.

Tokyo: Group of eight leaders will ask major emerging economies like India and China to adopt actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

Almost 29.1 percent of the drinking water supplied to people in the Wayamba province go waste due to negligence. If there is proper water management it would obviate the need to open new water supply schemes in the Province, said Rural Industries and Self Employment Promotion Minister S. B. Nawinna.

Rome:

Warm weather in 2007 helped the European Union towards its target of cutting global warming gases under the UN Kyoto Protocol for fighting climate change, but Spain, Italy and Ireland remained way off track.

Soaring transport emissions also offset many of the advances made by the 27-nation bloc, EU data showed on Friday, confirming a Reuters story last month.