If farmers think they have a tough time producing enough rice, wheat and other grain crops, global warming is going to present a whole new world of challenges in the race to produce more food, scientists say.

The Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources launched the Climate Change Secretariat to promote carbon trading. Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickramanayake said that much had to be done to protect the environment and leave a legacy for future generations.

Terming Climate Change as a ‘threat to rule of law’, an all-India conference of lawyers and environmentalists on Saturday appealed to all countries to end the great North-South Divide in this regard that threatened the sustainability of both.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Arctic and Antarctica are poles apart when it comes to the effects of human-fueled climate change, scientists said on Friday: in the north, it is melting sea ice, but in the south, it powers winds that chill things down.

In recent months, China has taken center stage in the international debate over global warming. It has surpassed the United States as the world’s largest source of greenhouse gases, and it became developing nations’ diplomatic champion at the recent United Nations climate negotiations in Bali. Now China may become the target of a full-fledged trade war that could destroy—or perhaps rescue—the …