The Chief of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has stated that the organization requires learning from latest criticisms and modernizing its workings. He said that regardless of making ...More

AZUSA - Automotive engineer and hot rod aficionado Gale Banks pointed to various engines and cars in his shop here last week and criticized state regulations for "bogging down" his ability to advance ...More

About 20 per cent of the world's lizards could be extinct by 2080 if current climate warming trends continue, according to new research. A global survey of lizard populations including Australia's al ...More

Climate change and marine protection officials have agreed at the 33rd Antarctic Treaty meeting to make climate change a major item on the agenda. A committee report from Norway has endorsed thirt ...More

Charles Darwin’s revolutionary work, Origin of Species, holds out a very clear message for managing our daily life, collectively and individually. Darwin writes with scientific coldness: “The slightes ...More

The increased knowledge on the environment was due to the investment and importance given to environmental education in recent years, Resources Minister George Pullicino said. In a message on the o ...More

Brace yourself for some depressing climate change news. Even if we cut carbon emissions dramatically, we won't really see the impact by the year 2050, says Bjørn Lomborg, Director of the Copenhagen Co ...More

The most obvious Achilles heel of this weird new Government is the issue on which the two parties making it up are most firmly united. On Friday morning, a beaming David Cameron stood alongside his ne ...More

The Governments of the United States and China held the 6th Joint Working Group Meeting of the U.S.-China Ten Year Framework (TYF) for Cooperation on Energy and Environment on May 11-12 in Washington, ...More

The third meeting of the BASIC (Brazil , South Africa, India and China) ministers on climate change was held in Cape Town last month. The joint statement, released at the end of the meet, emphasised o ...More

CONSERVATION Corridors are important because species rely on the migration of a few animals from one region to another, to intermix gene pools and to repopulate areas devastated by natural disasters o ...More

With frequent droughts, failure of rains and fast depletion of groundwater table severely affecting more than half of Himachal Pradesh, Dr Y S Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Solan, ha ...More

Fears that the UK's fight against climate change will be lost in the confusion of the Liberal-Conservative coalition were underlined yesterday when divisions between the two parties were exposed over ...More

SAN FRANCISCO -- Venture capital interests and political operatives gearing up for a fight this fall over California's climate change law are pressing donors to counter what they fear will be a camp ...More

The world’s largest public environmental fund, the Global Environment Facility (GEF), received a record boost from donor countries this week with more than 30 nations pledging US$4.25 billion. GEF ...More

By TOM WRIGHT NEW DELHI—India's environment minister, Jairam Ramesh, will be keeping his position after apologizing for his comments that India's government was "paranoid" about Chinese investment, ...More

Profiles of Chris Huhne, Caroline Spelman and Philip Hammond, the ministerial team that will drive UK climate and environment policy Chris Huhne: energy and climate change secretary (Liberal Democrat ...More

(ChattahBox)—Finally, a year after the EPA made a finding that greenhouse gases threatened our health, by polluting the air we breathe, the agency set new rules for big polluters. Starting in July of ...More

It may seem a misnomer as big businesses by their nature are money-making machines first and foremost, but there are ways they can reduce their impact on the environment, either through technology and ...More

Raccoon Island, a protected bird breeding sanctuary south of Louisiana, is one of several islands being surveyed for oil debris. The Gulf of Mexico oil disaster comes during spring spawning season, ...More