India Friday placed itself firmly on the side of the developing world as the Copenhagen climate summit reached its final hours, with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh saying any global regime to tackle climate change must take sustainable development into

Ikuko Hara-Nishimura, chief researcher at Tokyo University, has discovered a means to increase plants' ability to absorb carbon dioxide, which could "ease global warming and boost food production." By soaking seeds in a protein solution called Stomagen,

The gases which formed the Earth's atmosphere -- and probably its oceans -- did not come from inside the Earth but from outer space, according to a study by University of Manchester and University of Houston scientists.

The Copenhagen Climate Conference opened with a robust and angry defence of the science of global warming by two of the world's leading climate science figures. Dr Rajendra Pachauri, the Nobel-Prize winning head of the UN's Intergovernmental

Research has revealed details of the catastrophic Zanclean flood that refilled the Mediterranean Sea more than five million years ago.

Looking ahead to the future, there is no reason why such a freeze shouldn't happen again -- and in ironic fashion it could be precipitated if ongoing changes in climate force the Greenland ice sheet to suddenly melt, scientists say.

In a new research, scientists have revealed how mercury pollution is affecting Arctic animals like the polar bear. The research, led by biogeochemists Travis Horton of the University of Canterbury and Joel Blum of the University of Michigan, lays the

Strange beasts--including a giant rat, a lungless worm, and a vegetarian spider--dominated National Geographic News's most popular new-species coverage of 2009.

An extensive study made with ESO's Very Large Telescope deepens a long-standing mystery in the study of stars similar to the Sun.

The collision between the Siberian Plate and North China Plate was a significant geological event in earth history, which led to the final closure of the Paleoasian Ocean and the formation of the Eurasian continent.