(June 23, 2009 | Safety & Health)
China has halted a program of letting marginal farmland return to woodland, because of fears the country's arable land area could fall below a "red line" needed to feed its people.
(June 23, 2009 | Climate Change)
Brazil will pay small farmers to plant trees in deforested Amazon areas to slow rain forest degradation, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said as he unveiled a broad plan to protect the region.
(June 22, 2009 | Safety & Health)
Americans are struggling to pay for healthcare in the ongoing economic recession, with a quarter saying they have had trouble in the past 12 months, according to a survey.
(June 22, 2009 | Safety & Health)
The United Nations called for more aid funds to help countries prepare for―instead of respond to―natural disasters, saying simple steps could halve the number of deaths they cause.
(June 19, 2009 | Climate Change)
Deutsche Bank lit a seven-storey-high sign in the middle of Manhattan that counts the total amount of greenhouse gases trapped in the Earth's atmosphere.
(June 19, 2009 | Climate Change)
Europe will next week start moves to help China and India develop technology to trap and bury carbon dioxide underground in the fight against global warming, according to a draft European Commission document.
(June 18, 2009 | Climate Change)
Climate change is making some of the poorest people in China even more destitute and undermining the development that has been a cornerstone of Communist rule, academics and campaigners said.
(June 17, 2009 | Climate Change)
A global trend towards increasing weather-related disasters was confirmed in 2008, the second deadliest year in the past decade for natural catastrophes, an annual Red Cross report said.
(June 17, 2009 | Energy)
Thirty-one European airports including Paris Charles de Gaulle launched a joint program on Tuesday to cut their carbon dioxide emissions to zero, airports body ACI Europe said.
(June 16, 2009 | Climate Change)
Ancient Australian forests are key to fighting climate change and contain the world's most dense carbon store, eclipsing tropical rainforests as efficient greenhouse gas absorbers, scientists said.
