China will move 345,000 people, mostly poor villagers, within about two years to make way for a vast scheme to draw on rivers in the south to supply the increasingly dry north, an official newspaper said on...
The new coalition government must introduce a string of climate policies over the next twelve months or risk Britain missing its legally binding targets to cut carbon emissions, ministers were warned yesterday.
David...
Indigenous groups in Peru responded with fury after the country's president, Alan Garcia, blocked a law which would have helped them stop oil, gas and mining projects on tribal land.
Amazon tribes and other groups said...
When Mexican officials cut the ribbon on a new wastewater treatment plant in Tijuana in April, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency representatives and San Diego area environmental watchdogs were among those on hand...
Europe's carmakers moved a step closer creating an infrastructure for electric cars after agreeing on plug and socket standards for slow or overnight charging of the battery-driven vehicles due to hit roads from next...
Sperm whales feeding even in the most remote reaches of Earth's oceans have built up stunningly high levels of toxic and heavy metals, according to American scientists who say the findings spell danger not only for...
Zhang Hemin, head of the Wolong panda reserve in China's southwestern province of Sichuan, said one or two pregnant pandas would be released into a semiwild area by the end of the year.
The release area would be fenced...
Tropical Storm Celia formed on Saturday in the Pacific off southern Mexico and could soon become a hurricane as it moves away from the coast, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.Celia, the third named storm of the...
Acid mine runoff is one of the challenges faced by restoration professionals. Coal contains sulfur which leaches into the water and forms sulfuric acid. The low pH allows heavy metals to dissolve, creating a toxic...
The area of the Gulf of Mexico closed to fishing has been expanded again by NOAA to capture portions of the oil slick moving beyond the area’s current northern boundary, off the Florida panhandle’s federal-state...
