(August 06, 2009 | Climate Change)
A government plan for greenhouse gas reduction by 2020 would push down Japan's economic growth by 0.6 percentage points and raise unemployment by 0.2 percentage points in 2020, a government panel report showed.
(August 05, 2009 | Safety & Health)
The World Health Organisation sticks to its statement that about two billion people could catch H1N1 influenza by the time the flu pandemic ends.
(August 04, 2009 | Safety & Health)
Floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains have killed at least one dozen people and forced about 400,000 to flee their homes and farms in the southern Philippines, an army spokesman said.
(August 04, 2009 | Energy)
A decline in China's energy intensity, or the amount of energy it uses to produce each unit of national income, picked up pace in the first half of 2009, the country's top economic planner said.
(August 04, 2009 | Safety & Health)
Marine scientists from California are venturing this week to the middle of the North Pacific for a study of plastic debris accumulating across open sea dubbed the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch."
(August 03, 2009 | Energy)
India will make energy efficiency ratings a must for electric appliances, including air conditioners and refrigerators, from January, stepping up domestic efforts to fight climate change, officials said.
(August 03, 2009 | Energy)
Deteriorating rail services, high petrol prices, climate change worries, and a desire for exercise have combined to make commuting by bicycle in Berlin more popular than ever, with an estimated 13 percent of all trips done by bike.
(July 31, 2009 | Climate Change)
India will spend some 200 million dollars to protect its forests and will announce how much carbon emission is being captured by its green cover, the environment minister said.
(July 30, 2009 | Demographics)
When a major swimwear factory in Bangkok found its sales plummeting in the downturn, it laid off some 1,900 workers, almost all of them women.
(July 30, 2009 | Energy)
The United States could save about 600 billion dollars in energy costs by 2020 if it hiked annual efficiency spending about five-fold, business consultants McKinsey and Co said in a report on Wednesday.
