The US is ready to accept “binding international obligations” on reducing greenhouse gas emissions if other nations do the same, according to officials.
The US hopes the world’s major economies will conclude a “leaders’ declaration” before the July G8 summit. But the Bush administration is clearly looking for some kind of agreement from major developing countries […]

Major commercial fish stocks around the world could collapse within decades as global warming compounds damage from pollution and overfishing, according to the UN.
“You overlay all of this and you are potentially putting a death nail in the coffin of the world fisheries,” the head of the U.N. Environment Program, Achim Steiner, has said.

On February 23, dozens of solidarity actions were held across the US and UK to support the Iraqi people in their resistance of an oil law that would give unprecedented control to foreign oil companies. In Washington, Oil Change International —in coalition with other US labor and peace organizations— hosted a press conference and […]

Western oil giants are poised to enter Basra to tap the country’s vast reserves, despite the ongoing threat of violence, according to the UK Prime Minister’s business emissary to the country.
Michael Wareing, who heads the new Basra Development Commission, acknowledged that there would be concerns among Iraqis about multinationals exploiting natural resources.

UK scientists working in Antarctica have found some of the clearest evidence yet of instabilities in the ice of part of West Antarctica. If the trend continues, they say, it could lead to a significant rise in global sea level.
The new evidence comes from a group of glaciers covering an area the size of […]