(September 18, 2009 | Energy)
Iraq's prime minister has approved a project by a United Arab Emirates-based company to make biofuel from dates that would otherwise be wasted because they have started to perish, Iraqi officials said.
(September 18, 2009 | Climate Change)
Contraception advice is crucial to poor countries' battle with climate change, and policy makers are failing their people if they continue to shy away from the issue, a leading family planning expert said.
(September 17, 2009 | Safety & Health)
U.S. drugs group Merck & Co has teamed up with Britain's Wellcome Trust medical charity in a not-for-profit joint venture to develop affordable vaccines for poor countries
(September 17, 2009 | Safety & Health)
One needs to look no further then the river that runs through Shangba to understand the extent of the heavy metals pollution that experts say has turned the hamlets in this region of southern China into cancer villages.
(September 17, 2009 | Climate Change)
More than half the people in Asia believe sealing a new climate deal later this year depends on the leadership of U.S. President Barack Obama, according to a survey released by conservation group WWF.
(September 16, 2009 | Climate Change)
Europe's farmers must help cut its greenhouse gas emissions by at least 20 percent by 2020, through producing biomass and storing carbon in the soil, but they will need help or risk ruin, the EU farm chief said.
(September 16, 2009 | Energy)
California's governor Schwazenegger ordered that a third of the state's electricity come from renewable resources by 2020, the same amount as a legislature plan but with promises to let power companies get more electricity from outside the state.
(September 16, 2009 | Climate Change)
Using Africa's vast agricultural resources to help tackle climate change could earn the continent 1.5 billion dollars a year, a World Bank head said on Tuesday.
(September 15, 2009 | Safety & Health)
Underground water supplies that 1.5 million Palestinians rely on for drinking and farming could collapse due to years of over-use and contamination worsened by conflict, the United Nations said.
(September 15, 2009 | Safety & Health)
U.S. researchers said on Monday they had made more links between the use of pesticides and Parkinson's disease but said they only found a higher risk for people who use the chemicals as part of their job.
