City pollution, previously linked to poor respiratory health, has now been linked to raised blood pressure.
German researchers looked at 5,000 people and found long-term exposure increased blood pressure, even when...
WHEN the word water appears in print these days, crisis is rarely far behind. Water, it is said, is the new oil: a resource long squandered, now growing expensive and soon to be overwhelmed by insatiable demand....
The Obama administration directed more fire against BP last night, ordering it to provide daily updates on its efforts to contain the spill and to stop the use of a toxic chemical dispersant to break up the slick.
The...
The river basin organisation people are gathered in Botswana again: the theme this year is "benefit-sharing", an approach to allocating water that, it is promised, will accomplish nothing less than to make...
Nestle said it would identify and exclude from its supply chain companies ''owning or managing high risk plantations or farms linked to deforestation'', a move which was welcomed by environmental campaigners.
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A novel drill that is inspired by a jet engine and uses super-heated water to carve through rock could help harness to make clean energy from underground rocks more economically viable, according to its backers at...
A leading Chinese environmentalist has been released after serving a three-year prison sentence on what he says were trumped up charges of blackmailing polluting businesses.
Wu Lihong was named by China's legislature...
Environmentalists are describing a landfill site in Melbourne's outer north-west as the most hazardous waste landfill in Australia.
A study conducted by the Western Region Environment Centre has found that people...
The ozone hole 25 years on: a budget cut nearly thwarted the discovery of the gaping ozone hole over the Antarctic, and it was revealed almost by accident, writes DICK AHLSTROM
YOU WOULD think that something the...
What really went on at the UN climate conference in Copenhagen? Secret recordings obtained by SPIEGEL reveal how China and India prevented an agreement on tackling climate change at the crucial meeting. The powerless...
