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Teacher and campaigner once dubbed the 'environmental Taliban' turns his attention to the effects of tourism a and a future in politics For years, the co-founder of environmental group Green Sense went on the offensive against the construction of what he dubbed "walls of buildings" across the city that trapped air pollution while feeding the greed ... (more)

US Secretary of State John Kerry has called on American ambassadors around the world to make the fight against climate change a top priority ahead of new UN talks next year.

Proponents of synthetic biology tout its potential for bringing about great advances in medicine, energy and cheaper foods.

A WIND FARM which could earn the Scottish Tories' environment spokesman more than 8 million will make his constituents' lives a misery, kill tourism jobs and turn a community into a "ghost village", objectors have claimed.

President Barack Obama will expand the California Coastal National Monument to include the Point Arena-Stornetta Public Lands, a White House official said Saturday.

HMS Vanguard is to have its reactor refuelled after a test reactor was found to have a small internal leak of radiation Alex Salmond has demanded an apology from David Cameron for failing to tell Scottish ministers about a radiation problem at a nuclear submarine test reactor.

Gov. Pat McCrory was in Charlotte Friday for an economic announcement. Channel 9 asked him to answer to criticism that he has weakened the enforcement of environmental regulations in the state.

Smoke rises from a chimney among houses as new high-rise residential buildings are seen under construction on a hazy day in the city centre of Tangshan, Hebei province, China The vast majority of Chinese cities monitored for pollution fail to meet Beijing-set standards, China's vice-minister of environmental protection says.

China is paying a heavy environmental price for growth in gross domestic product and leaders will only solve the pollution problem if they change the country's development model, a vice minister said.

Scott tried to take his spending recommendation for one particular environmental project - springs restoration - and portray that as an overall record, and that's not the case..

A front group for Washington, D.C.-based public relations firm Berman & Company is back with new targets: green buildings, green groups and the Environmental Protection Agency.

Residential wood smoke emissions will remain exempt from state regulations after environmental regulators on Wednesday denied a petition from three environmental and health advocacy groups.

Pennsylvania has awarded a $30,041 grant to the Berks County Solid Waste Authority for its household hazardous waste collection program.

China has been increasingly focusing on its environmental problems and reducing production in the coal-intensive steel industry has been a key goal.

The U.S. State Department appears to be cooking the books in its studies of the Keystone XL Pipeline.

Enter Google, which, by leasing the space through its subsidiary, will put Hangar One to new use with a commitment to protect that building, rehabilitate Hangars 2 and 3, and create a public use/educational facility.

Gov, Phil Bryant and others are extolling Mississippi as a national leader in using carbon dioxide to extract more oil from old oil fields.

The fire at Victoria, Australia's Hazelwood coal mine has burned for nearly a month now and blanketed the nearby town of South Morwell in hazardous smog, but the end seems to be near.

South High Community School freshman Paris A. Jensen ,14 ,of Worcester stands in-front of her science project on how much students know about climate change, and how much they care.

The jump in military spending, announced Wednesday on the first day of the National People's Congress in Beijing, comes amid a war of words between Japan and China over disputed islands in the East China Sea.