TOKYO: The world already knows that global warming is a serious problem and the time has come for politicians and experts to come together to map out a practical solution, former British Prime Ministe ...More

WASHINGTON: A new study has suggested that droughts and downpours aggravated by climate change allowed two diseases to converge and wipe out large numbers of African lions in 1994 and 2001. Lions ...More

TOKYO: Japan has yet to persuade the United States to agree to a global goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 50 per cent by 2050 at next month's G8 leaders' summit, a Japanese government source ...More

WASHINGTON: US intelligence believes fallout from global climate change over the next 20 years will boost global instability and may place new burdens on US military forces, according to a report deli ...More

BERLIN: Corruption has made the cost of water more expensive in some developing countries than in cities like New York, London or Rome, threatening billions of lives, watchdog Transparency Internation ...More

CHICAGO: Climate change may turn many of California's native plants into "plant refugees" in the next century as they seek more suitable habitats, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday. They said chang ...More

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica: Costa Rican coffee farmers are facing threats from climate change but the rising temperatures are also expanding high-altitude regions where the country's most prized beans are g ...More

LOS ANGELES: Republican nominee-elect John McCain on Tuesday vowed to combat global warming without sacrificing economic growth, contradicting President George W. Bush on the need for binding emissi ...More

SYDNEY: Climatic extremes like frequent droughts and floods, associated with global warming, can trigger epidemics that could potentially wipe out livestock or wildlife. A new study suggests tha ...More

PORT LOUIS: Mauritius is planning a first batch of carbon credit projects aimed at boosting the use of renewable energy on the Indian Ocean island. The world's rapidly-developing carbon markets al ...More

WASHINGTON: A new report by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has said that climate change disasters are a major cause for the rise in global displacement, along with factors like conflict ...More

So what has the price you pay for rice got to do with big jamboree-like UN climate change meetings? Adding to inflation woes, climate change could throw asunder household budgets. Indeed, the jargon ...More

CANBERRA: A new research has determined that climate change due to global warming might wipe out the entire species of whales off the face of the Earth. According to researchers from the Federal E ...More

Chief Minister Maj Gen BC Khanduri stressed on striking a balance between development and conservation while discussing the issue of climate change and natural resource management on the first day o ...More

PARIS: The world's oceans have warmed 50 per cent faster over the last 40 years than previously thought due to climate change, Australian and US climate researchers have reported. Higher ocean tem ...More

BRUSSELS: Western European nations cut their greenhouse gas emissions only slightly in 2006, with many far below a global target to curb climate change, according to EU statistics released on Wednesda ...More

TOKYO: Japan will consider imposing an environment tax as part of discussions this autumn on an overhaul of the tax system, the government's top advisory panel said on Tuesday, a move that could pro ...More

LONDON: With oil prices near $140 a barrel, motorists are starting to look seriously at both alternative fuels and electric vehicles as a way to be able to keep driving their cars. But experts say ...More

LONDON: The world's major economies emit most of the world's climate-warming greenhouse gases and must take the lead in reducing them, a senior American climate negotiator said on Tuesday. Paula D ...More

TOKYO: The Group of Eight summit next month is not the proper forum for settling the contentious issue of midterm targets on carbon emissions because it is being tackled by the United Nations, Japanes ...More