Greece has been suspended from U.N. carbon trading in an unprecedented punishment for violating greenhouse gas reporting rules that underpin a fight against global warming, officials said on Tuesday.
A group of legal experts enforcing compliance with the U.N.’s Kyoto Protocol also said it was opening proceedings against Canada for alleged violations of rules on accounting […]

Pope Benedict XVI heightened his recent environmental campaign in his address at UN headquarters in New York City today—a push that includes everything from stern theological warnings to solar panels on St. Peter’s Basilica.
“International action to preserve the environment and to protect various forms of life on Earth must not only guarantee a rational use […]

The world risks “scientific apartheid” between rich and poor countries unless research and technology is better used to benefit the poor, says one of Africa’s leading science experts.
Ismail Serageldin, director of Bibliotheca Alexandrina and former chairman of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) made the comments in his keynote address to the BioVision […]

Warming trends in a third of the world’s large ocean regions are two to four times greater than previously reported averages, increasing the risk to marine life and fisheries, a U.N.-backed environmental study said.
Overfishing, coastal pollution and degradation of water quality were common in all 64 large marine ecosystems studied by scientists who contributed to […]

A coalition of states on Wednesday sued the Bush administration, saying it has failed to comply with a Supreme Court ruling that opened the door for regulating the greenhouse gases tied to global warming.
The Supreme Court said in April 2007 that carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels is a pollutant subject to the Clean Air […]

 
It is one of the biggest in Antarctica and, for the past century, the massive Wilkins ice shelf appeared to have escaped the ravages of global warming. But now, enormous cracks have appeared in this floating ice platform the size of Northern Ireland. Scientists say it is breaking apart at an unprecedented rate after warmer […]

 
Soot from biomass burning, diesel exhaust has 60 percent of the effect of carbon dioxide on warming but mitigation offers immediate benefits
Black carbon, a form of particulate air pollution most often produced from biomass burning, cooking with solid fuels and diesel exhaust, has a warming effect in the atmosphere three to four times greater than […]

 
After the coldest start to a year in more than a decade, spring will bring relief to the northern hemisphere from Thursday.
Bucking the trend of global warming, the start of 2008 saw icy weather around the world from China to Greece. But despite its chilly start, 2008 is expected to end up among the top […]

Glaciers for which there is long-term data are shrinking at record rates and many could disappear within decades, the U.N. Environment Program said Sunday.
Scientists measuring the health of almost 30 glaciers around the world found that ice loss reached record levels in 2006, the U.N. agency said.
UNEP warned that further ice loss could have dramatic […]

Tackling climate change, pollution and other environmental hazards is affordable and urgent action is needed to avoid irreversible damage, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said on Wednesday.
“Climate change is mankind’s most important long-term challenge,” OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurria told Reuters after issuing a 520-page Environmental Outlook in Oslo.
The 30-nation OECD said possible […]

Al Gore, who won the Nobel Peace Prize and an Oscar for his environmental advocacy, was the main target on Monday at a conference of dissident scientists skeptical of his views on global warming.
Several speakers at the conference on climate change whose theme was “Global warming is not a crisis,” took pot-shots at the ex-vice […]

Antarctica’s native marine life is under threat from invasions of king crabs and other predators, researchers said today.As Earth’s oceans heat up because of global warming, king crabs will likely expand into waters that were previously too chilly for them to survive.
“They’re poised to invade the shallower waters,” said Richard Aronson of the Dauphin Island […]