(October 26, 2009 | Climate Change)
Japan, the world's fifth-biggest air polluter, offered a 400 million dollar yen-denominated loan on Sunday to Indonesia, the world's third-largest air polluter, to help tackle global warming.
(October 26, 2009 | Safety & Health)
The U.S. healthcare system wastes between 505 billion and 850 billion dollars every year, according to a Thomson Reuters report released on Monday.
(October 23, 2009 | Climate Change)
Poverty and climate hazards make the southeast United States the country's most vulnerable area to climate change impact, Oxfam America said.
(October 23, 2009 | Demographics)
Europe must step up joint surveillance efforts at sea to combat drug trafficking and people smuggling, European maritime commissioner Joe Borg said as he announced two pilot projects.
(October 22, 2009 | Climate Change)
From the Himalayas to the Andes, faster-melting glaciers spell short-term opportunities -- and long-term risks -- for hydroelectric power and the engineering and construction industries it drives.
(October 22, 2009 | Climate Change)
Space agencies and Google Inc are helping an international project to monitor forests by satellite to fight global warming, the head of an international earth observation group said.
(October 21, 2009 | Energy)
Offshore supply vessels resembling large, floating flat-backed trucks fill Victoria Dock, unable to find charters in a sign of the downturn in Britain's oil industry.
(October 21, 2009 | Safety & Health)
The world needs genetically modified crops both to increase food yields and minimise the environmental impact of farming, Britain's top science academy said.
(October 20, 2009 | Safety & Health)
Food commodities prices are likely to stay high and volatile in the medium term, while a repeat of the 2007-2008 price spikes is seen as a realistic possibility, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation said.
(October 20, 2009 | Climate Change)
Australians living beside some of the country's finest beaches will allowed to fortify their beachfront homes against rising seas and storms, as climate change increasingly threatens the heavily-populated east coast.
