(June 03, 2009 | Climate Change)
Climate change could cost the African continent more farmland than the United States uses to plant its eight major field crops combined, according to a study.
(June 02, 2009 | Safety & Health)
The number of hungry people in South Asia has jumped by 100 million in the past two years, aggravated by high food and fuel prices and the global economic slowdown, a UNICEF report said on Tuesday.
(June 02, 2009 | Safety & Health)
The economic downturn has made the world more violent and unstable in the last year, according to a study on Tuesday that ranked New Zealand as the most peaceful country and Iraq the least.
(June 01, 2009 | Climate Change)
Rich nations as a group are unlikely to reach the deep 2020 cuts in greenhouse gas emissions urged by developing nations as part of a new U.N. climate treaty, the top U.S. climate envoy has said.
(June 01, 2009 | Climate Change)
Consumers around the world are unwittingly fueling destruction of the Amazon forest by buying Brazilian beef products linked to illegal deforestation, environment group Greenpeace said on Sunday.
(May 29, 2009 | Climate Change)
Climate change kills about 315,000 people a year through hunger, sickness and weather disasters, and the annual death toll is expected to rise to half a million by 2030, a report said.
(May 29, 2009 | Safety & Health)
Millions of people in India and Bangladesh remained marooned without food or water, four days after cyclone Aila hit them, and authorities said disease was becoming a serious problem.
(May 28, 2009 | Energy)
Europe's next big move to confront climate change should be to tackle rapidly growing emissions from transport, with more road tolls and greener cars, trains and trucks, a top EU environment official said.
(May 28, 2009 | Climate Change)
New York, Boston, and other cities on North America's northeast coast could face a rise in sea level this century that would exceed forecasts for the rest of the planet if Greenland's ice sheet keeps melting as fast as it is now, researchers said.
(May 27, 2009 | Energy)
The global market for carbon emissions trading doubled in value last year, despite the global economic slow down in the second half of 2008, but actual realized emissions cuts fell, the World Bank said on Wednesday.
