Britain's demand for imported goods is responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions abroad than any other European country, according to a new study published today.
The report shows that 253m tonnes of carbon dioxide...
Popularly, China is a villain in climate change. Many people who attended last year's chaotic U.N. climate-change talks in Copenhagen — especially those who belonged to the U.S. delegation — singled out China as the...
Like many low-altitude glaciers, it's steadily melting, shrinking two miles over the past 200 years as it tries to strike a new balance with rising temperatures.
At the Kenai Fjords National Park south of Anchorage,...
Indonesia's new decree, allowing mining, power plant, transport and renewable energy projects in protected forests, was welcomed by several companies in those sectors.
PT Pertamina Geothermal Energy (PGE), a unit of...
The EU has approved the cultivation of a genetically modified potato and the use of three types of altered maize, saying they don't pose a health risk.
The go-ahead for the Amflora potato – developed by BASF SE, based...
The energy and climate change secretary, Ed Miliband, today announced details of a "green loans" scheme to help people pay for improvements to their homes to make them more energy efficient.
The scheme,...
Poor in natural resources, the country has long dreamed of reducing its fossil fuel dependency through domestic nuclear power. Now it's casting nuclear energy as a key to the fight against global warming, an argument...
The Nobel Prize-winning international scientific panel studying global warming is seeking independent outside review for how it makes major reports.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says it's seeking...
Opposition is mounting over a plan to farm 8,100 cows in "battery conditions" at Britain's largest dairy – a complex of indoor hangars that protesters say will match the carbon emissions of 3,000...
After just over two decades, 250 miles (402km) and $9m (£5.9m) later, the last post on one of the longest fences ever built in Africa has been hammered in.
The electrified barrier, which rings the Aberdare mountain...
