(September 09, 2009 | Climate Change)
First Solar Inc plans to build the world's largest solar plant in China. The 2 GW plant would be the first major foray by a U.S. company into the Asian nation's alternative energy sector.
(September 08, 2009 | Climate Change)
Confusing and conflicting regulations are scaring away investors from Indonesia's fledgling forest carbon credit scheme aimed at curbing deforestation, lawyers said.
(September 08, 2009 | Climate Change)
The Maldives archipelago, threatened by rising sea levels blamed on climate change, said it would introduce a new environment tax on all tourists who use its resorts and provide its economic lifeline.
(September 08, 2009 | Demographics)
The global economic downturn has drastically slowed migration flows, as once-booming countries provide would-be immigrants with fewer opportunities for a better life, a survey released on Tuesday showed.
(September 07, 2009 | Energy)
Brazil has no interest in joining the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) because it does not aspire to become a crude oil exporter, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said.
(September 07, 2009 | Climate Change)
Japanese Prime Minister-elect Yukio Hatoyama said that Japan, the world's fifth-largest greenhouse gas emitter, will aim for a 25 percent cut in emissions by 2020 compared with 1990 levels.
(September 07, 2009 | Safety & Health)
Farmers in developing countries are losing traditional varieties because of growing corporate control of the seeds they plant, hampering their ability to cope with climate change, a London-based think tank said on Monday.
(September 04, 2009 | Demographics)
The EU Commission wants to fight illegal immigration into the European Union by harmonizing rules on immigration and allowing more refugees to enter the bloc legally, according to proposals.
(September 04, 2009 | Safety & Health)
The discovery of immune system particles that attack the AIDS virus may finally open a way to make a vaccine that could protect people against the deadly and incurable infection, U.S. researchers said.
(September 03, 2009 | Energy)
New York's Empire State Building is doing it, Chicago's Willis Tower is about to start and more landlords and companies are expected to undertake building retrofits to reduce energy costs.
