The Greenland icesheet is more sensitive to global warming than thought, for just a relatively small -- but very
Scientists on Thursday launched a mission to the seabed off Japan where a massive quake triggered last year's devastating
Affluent Singapore had the largest carbon footprint per head in the Asia-Pacific in 2010, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
..The head of environmental pressure group Greenpeace warned Friday the world faced a "perfect storm" of crises and was
Two decades after the United Nations established the Framework Convention on Climate Change in order to "prevent dangerous anthropogenic
..A reactor at the San Onofre nuclear power plant near San Diego has been shut down after a radiation
India has the worst air quality in the world, poorer even than its neighbour China, according to an annual
Around 1630 BC, a super-volcano blew apart the Aegean island of Santorini, an event so violent that some theorists
Japanese scientists are studying how radiation has affected plants and animals living near the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, according
Swarming locusts may be drawn to overgrazed fields because the insects prefer to feed on low-nitrogen plants in areas