Whether to tweak, bolster or bury the Kyoto Protocol has become a red-hot issue as UN negotiators try to lay the groundwork for a successor treaty.
UN climate talks in Bangkok are the most constructive since the 2007 launch of negotiations, the climate chief said on Wednesday.
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/ 16 September 2009
Key meetings unfolding in the coming week may determine whether a two-year effort to combat climate change will triumph or be written off as a flop.
The UN’s top climate scientist has given his personal endorsement to hugely ambitious goals for slashing emissions.
Tanning beds now rank alongside cigarettes and asbestos as a top-level cancer threat, the World Health Organisation’s cancer research agency said.
More than a half-a-dozen newspapers in the United States and Europe have gone "web only" in the past year in a bid to stave off bankruptcy.
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/ 14 December 2008
After a year in which it nearly lost its compass, the campaign against climate change heads into 2009 needing top-level political commitment.
The age-old fantasy of making yourself invisible has taken a step toward reality.
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/ 12 February 2008
By mid-century, getting it on with an electronic femme fatale or a superstud sexbot will become an accepted part of the human landscape, predicts David Levy, a PhD in gender studies and artificial intelligence and author of <i>Sex with Robots: The Evolution of Human-Robot Relations</i>.
Sitting still under a skull cap fitted with a couple of dozen electrodes, American scientist Peter Brunner stares at a laptop. Without so much as moving a nostril hair, he suddenly begins to compose a message — letter by letter — on a giant screen overhead.