(March 19, 2010 | Climate Change)
Proposed international trade bans on polar bears and Atlantic bluefin tuna failed to pass at a 175-nation meeting aimed at protecting endangered species.
(March 19, 2010 | Energy)
Britain has agreed leases for 10 sites in Scotland's Pentland Firth and Orkney waters where developers plan to install marine energy projects to supply up to 750,000 homes with electricity by 2020.
(March 18, 2010 | Energy)
Owners of large commercial buildings in Australia will have to disclose energy efficiency information when putting buildings up for sale or lease, under laws introduced in parliament.
(March 18, 2010 | Safety & Health)
China's Health Ministry is probing a report in a domestic newspaper that faulty vaccines in northern Shanxi province were responsible for killing four children and making dozens of others sick.
(March 17, 2010 | Climate Change)
Taiwan said it would use countries in Africa to get its first carbon credits for international trade, a move seen as part of the island's long-term bid to participate in the United Nations.
(March 17, 2010 | Demographics)
A flooded Gold Coast and floating islands: The Australian population growth outlook for 2050 presents unusual urban scenarios.
(March 16, 2010 | Demographics)
Spending on care for the elderly must more than double over the next 15 years just to keep the same level of service for a rapidly ageing population, a thinktank said.
(March 16, 2010 | Climate Change)
Compromise climate control legislation being developed in the U.S. Senate will use a cap-and-trade approach to reduce carbon emissions from utilities such as power plants, a key senator said.
(March 16, 2010 | Climate Change)
Levels of the main greenhouse gas in the atmosphere have risen to new highs in 2010 despite an economic slowdown in many nations that braked industrial output.
(March 15, 2010 | Climate Change)
Australia's top scientists have released a "State of the Climate" report about the world's driest inhabited continent. They say its findings "clearly demonstrate that climate change is real".
