Time is running out for many developing countries like India to protect their growing cities against future environmental risks and resource scarcity, a report by engineering and design consultancy At ...More

Climate change scientists warn the rate of melting of permafrost in the Arctic could cause significant impact to the environment. Pictures courtesy of an Australian documentary team from Unboxed Media ...More

The millennium development goals (MDGs), adopted by United Nations (UN) member countries in the year 2000 to address the most pressing development challenges facing humanity, are supposed to be met by ...More

WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama signed a bill on Tuesday shielding US airlines from paying for each ton of carbon their planes flying into and out of Europe emit, despite a recent move by Europe to ...More

By Erika Bolstad — McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON — Scientists who study the Arctic say they’re worried that nations meeting this week to set targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions aren’t ad ...More

Frozen ground in Siberia. Permafrost covers nearly a quarter of the northern hemisphere. Photograph: Francis Latreille/Corbis The United Nations sounded a stark warning on the threat to the climate f ...More

WASHINGTON: A tropical lizard species native to Puerto Rico has adapted to the cooler winters of Miami, suggesting its ability to survive climate change. "We are not saying that climate change i ...More

WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama signed a bill on Tuesday shielding US airlines from paying for each ton of carbon their planes flying into and out of Europe emit, despite a recent move by Europe to ...More

DOHA: Sea levels are rising 60% faster than UN projections, threatening low-lying areas from Miami to the Maldives, a study said on Wednesday. The report, issued during UN talks in Qatar on combat ...More

Christine Todd Whitman, the former governor of New Jersey and former head of the Environmental Protection Agency, the EPA, talks to DW about the US' and Germany's environmental records. DW: Germany ...More

DOHA: Sea levels are rising 60% faster than UN projections, threatening low-lying areas from Miami to the Maldives, a study said on Wednesday. The report, issued during UN talks in Qatar on combat ...More

Now that Congress and the Obama administration are returning to Washington, we know they'll be looking over a fiscal cliff. But the skies above that landscape look different since we met Superstorm Sa ...More

WASHINGTON — The last three United Nations climate change summit meetings have been disorderly affairs, marked by brinkmanship, breakdowns and a weary sense that there has to be a better way to addres ...More

China's position on its rising greenhouse gas emissions may seem contradictory. While the country flaunts ambitious green-tech investments and energy consumption targets, its officials continue to pri ...More

DOHA: On the first day of climate change talks here, India joined hands with China and other developing countries, including the small island states and the least developed countries (LDCs), to put ri ...More

Whaling activities are driving large numbers of the Australian blue whales into Antarctica, currently on the endangered list SYDNEY: Whaling activities are driving large numbers of the Australian blu ...More

Almost 200 countries are gathered in the gas-rich Middle Eastern state to work towards a new international treaty to stop global warming. The re-election of President Obama has led to high hopes the ...More

Almost 200 countries are gathered in the gas-rich Middle Eastern state to work towards a new international treaty to stop global warming. The re-election of President Obama has led to high hopes the ...More

Nov. 27 (BusinessDesk) - The controversial oil and gas discovery technique known as fracking is safe when conducted to best practice standards, says the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, ...More

ENVIRONMENTAL activists will meet in Kew tomorrow to question the Baillieu Government’s record on native forest logging, climate change and urban sprawl. Victoria's four leading environment groups ar ...More