British police on Saturday arrested 50 environmental campaigners as they tried to break into a power plant in protest at plans to build a new generation of coal-fired electricity plants

US and British researchers have confirmed the link between warmer climate and an increase in ...

JOHANNESBURG, August 3, 2008 (AFP) - South Africa's government has set out an ambitious proposal to deal with climate change in the coming years, including slapping a possible carbon tax on carbon dioxide-spewing industries.

Saying the world faced 'a global climate emergency,' the environment ministry unveiled the strategy geared toward reducing greenhouse gases last week.

TOKYO, July 29, 2008 (AFP) - Japan's cabinet on Tuesday adopted a plan to slash carbon emissions up to 80 percent by 2050 by starting carbon trading and stepping up research on carbon-capture technologies.

KUZUMAKI, July 29, 2008 (AFP) - Here in the mountains of northern Japan, wind, sun and even cow dung are being turned into electricity as part of efforts to turn a whole town into an experiment in renewable energy use.

KYOTO, July 29, 2008 (AFP) - Kyoto, the city whose name is synonymous with the fight against global warming, is feeling the effects of climate change first-hand as the moss dries out in its celebrated gardens.

SOLOVETSKY ISLANDS, July 24, 2008 (AFP) - A young whale pokes its melon-shaped head into the cool morning air near this remote island, a sign its herd is thriving despite mounting threats in Russia's melting Arctic.

LONDON, July 23, 2008 (AFP) - British negotiators are trying to water down European Union plans to give priority access to green energy sources on national energy grids, The Guardian newspaper reported Thursday.

MADRID, July 23, 2008 (AFP) - A Heat Wave led Spain's national weather office on Wednesday to put seven provinces in the centre and south of the country on orange alert, the second-highest level of its four-alert scale.

OSLO, July 22, 2008 (AFP) - In Norway, many motorists are up in arms over why they have to pay the highest petrol (gasoline) prices in Europe when the country is the world's fifth-largest oil exporter and a recent tax hike has done little to cool tempers.