The United Kingdom will fall behind the rest of the world in developing one of the key technologies in the fight against climate change because of "incoherence and timidity" by the government, according to a leading expert.

A timber industry analyst says he is not sure Gunns' $2 billion pulp mill will ever be built because of delays in securing finance.

The left-wing ecologist Carlos Minc, Brazil's new Environment Minister, brings to the job a style very different from that of his dogged but discreet predecessor, Marina Silva.

The Bush administration has released a climate change assessment - four years late and pushed forward by a court order - that says human-induced global warming will likely lead to problems like droughts in the US West and stronger hurricanes.

A unique collection of 1,700 leading scientists today called on the US government to take the lead in fighting global warming. Citing the "unprecedented and unanticipated" effects of global warming, the scientists, including six Nobel prize winners, ...

Rise in CO2 in the atmosphere from human activities is influencing climate patterns and vegetation across the United States and will significantly disrupt water supplies, agriculture, forestry and ecosystems for decades, a new federal report says.

Ocean waters along North America's west coast are becoming more acidic than expected in response to atmospheric carbon emissions, which will likely cause significant changes to economically vital marine ecosystems, a new study says.

Diplomats from the five countries bordering the Arctic Ocean adopted a declaration on Wednesday aimed at defusing tensions over the likelihood that global warming will open northern waters to shipping, energy extraction and other activities.

A group of 1,700 leading scientists, including six Nobel prizewinners, have called on the US government yesterday to take the lead in fighting the "unprecedented and unanticipated" effects of global warming by immediately reducing carbon emissions.

For seven long years, President George W. Bush has refused to confront the challenge of climate change and provide the leadership that America and the world needs to reduce greenhouse gases and avoid the destructive consequences of global warming.