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China pledged on Sunday that it will make sure that 60 percent of its cities meet national pollution standards by 2020, with pressure growing to make cities liveable as hundreds of millions of migrants are expected to relocate from the countryside.

Chiefs in the Western Region have expressed frustration with the activities of oil companies, saying their source of livelihood, fishing, is being destroyed.

Crop yields in temperate and tropical regions stand to slow down in the face of global warming, even at just a rise of 2C, a study showed.

Every day thousands of animals across the world are killed for food. Rats, frogs and countless other small animals are also dissected in the name of education and large amounts of meat waste enters the multi-billion pound pet food industry.

One Washington, D.C. based art exhibit is adding perspective and a breath of fresh air to a topic that's often saturated with scientific jargon and data -- climate change.

A recent study has found that autism is linked to pollution in the environment and may be triggered by harmful toxins.

But the all-out efforts to combat China's disastrous pollution levels might get in the way of plans to tax carbon dioxide emissions in a bid to stunt the rapid growth of greenhouse gas emissions, Zhu Guangyao, the vice environment minister, said...... A carbon tax is increasingly controversial among lawmakers, said Zhu, adding that an environment ... (more)

THE nuclear bomb and submarine basess at Faslane and Coulport near Helensburgh are seeking permission to increase the amount of radioactive waste they can discharge into the Clyde and the air, the Sunday Herald can reveal.

California has announced it will begin requiring manufacturers to reduce toxins in children's sleeping merchandise and some household items.

Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono left Saturday for Sumatra, to take the lead in an operation to combat massive forest fires, which has so far proved fruitless.

The Union of Concerned Scientists reports that, thanks to global warming, insects previously stopped by cold winters are already moving to higher latitudes, a phenomenon that could expose an extra 2 billion people, mostly in developing countries, to the dengue virus over the next half century.

Apparently without even a hint of shame, Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi declared recently that she cares "deeply about protecting our waterways and environment."

Contrary to Mr. Brown's assertion, dipper and clam shell dredging, which he also refers to as mechanical dredging, will not be used in the Cherry Grove canals dredging project.

The environmental community and the business/development community do not always see eye to eye.

As more environmentally conscious Americans do their bit to help clear the air by paying up for an eco-friendly Prius or a sporty Tesla, a damaging form of polluted rain is falling in China.

The U.S. will struggle to endorse a climate treaty that hurts trade while Brazil and India want richer countries to take the lead in limiting environmental change as global warming talks in Bonn enter their final day.

Environmental advocates have a compelling story to tell, but it has been hard to get people to listen.

Despite a plethora of new environmental regulations in China over the last decade or so, for a long time it felt as if "the more things changed the more they stayed the same".

Using a new, cutting-edge isotopic tool, researchers have reconstructed the temperature history of a climatically important region in the Pacific Ocean.

Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif.