EU leads diplomatic drive to convert US
The diplomatic offensive to be launched by the European Union aimed at convincing the Bush Administration to reconsider its rejection of the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, is intended to unite
The diplomatic offensive to be launched by the European Union aimed at convincing the Bush Administration to reconsider its rejection of the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, is intended to unite
The US will remain engaged at high level in international efforts to tackle climate change despite its rejection of the Kyoto Treaty on global warming, the White House signalled. Speaking as the
In a pointed criticism of US environmental policy, President Jacques Chirac of France urged all countries to implement the Kyoto treaty on global warming that President George W Bush has decided to
Seabuckthorn, a plant with numerous medicinal properties, grows wild in India. Rural communities are the losers
One third of Mount Kilimanjaro's ice fields have completely melted in the last two decades and the rest of the mountain's ice could disappear by 2015, says Lonnie Thompson, a professor at the us
Soot, emitted by burning diesel, is far more responsible for climate change than believed earlier
smoggy air damages plants, causes leaf injury, adversely affects plant growth and reduces fruit yield. Air pollutants such as sulphur, fluorides, ozone affect forest ecosystems adversely. This book
The European Commission has adopted a series of action plans to integrate the protection of biodiversity into EU agricultural, fishery, environment and development and co-operation policies. The aim
The Environmental Protection Agency and the Chicago Board of Trade announced yesterday the results of its annual acid rain auction conducted on Monday. The auction gives private citizens, brokers and
The Japanese government today vowed to keep up pressure on the US government following President, Mr George W Bush's decision to abandon the Kyoto Climate Change
U.S. environment chief Christine Todd Whitman defended Washington's commitment to fighting global warming yesterday, despite ending its support for the Kyoto treaty, which Canada insisted is not dead
The rejection by the United States of the 1997 Kyoto pact on greenhouse gas cuts was very disappointing, a top official from a global panel on climate change said yesterday. But Tomihiro Taniguchi,
The European Union officials are both alarmed and perplexed with the Bush administration's decision to reject and abandon the Kyoto treaty, designed to combat global warming. The U.S. accounts for
No, this is not a column on global warming, or about the needs of developing economies to have more quota for carbon emissions. Nor are we going to discuss the vulnerability of the Indian economy to
There was a sharp reaction here to the Bush administration's decision to pull out of the Kyoto treaty on climate change with observers seeing it as the British Government's first real taste of
US President George W.Bush walked into a hail of protest on Thursday after ditching the 1997 Kyoto treaty aimed at staving off global warning, with Pacific islands warning rising seas could wipe them
The tiny South Pacific nation of Kiribati warned yesterday it could "drown" if the world did not act to halt global warming. A collection of low-lying atolls in the immensity of the South Pacific,
As the new U.S. administration rejects the Kyoto global pollution pact, Europe must decide whether to rip up the treaty it fought so hard for or forge ahead without the world's biggest polluter. The
The US Department of Energy predicted on Wednesday that developing countries would be mainly responsible for a nearly 70 percent increase in carbon dioxide emissions between 1999 and 2020. The
Australia has vowed to try to persuade the United States to continue negotiations on global warming after Washington effectively abandoned the 1997 Kyoto treaty aimed at curbing greenhouse gas