A parliamentary committee in Nepal has given the go-ahead for China Three Gorges Corp.'s $1.6 billion hydroelectric-power project after the Chinese state-owned company threatened last month to pull

In a huge blow to U.K. government plans to develop new nuclear power, German utilities E.ON AG and RWE AG said Thursday they were scrapping their plans in the U.K.

Several cancers linked to obesity and a sedentary lifestyle rose every year from 1999 through 2008, even as improved screening and a sharp decline in the number of smokers have helped push down the

Texas moved closer Friday to allowing low-level radioactive waste from dozens of states to be trucked in and disposed at a site in West Texas, which would become one of only four in the nation that

Brazil's major mining associations, representing 90% of the largest mining companies in the country, will take legal action to try to block new taxes on production imposed by Para, Minas Gerais and

Some energy companies, state regulators, academics and environmentalists are reaching consensus that natural-gas drilling has led to several incidents of water pollution—but not because of fracking

Airbus and a group of European airlines issued another warning that the European Commission faces sparking a trade war after extending its emission trading scheme to the global industry.

Hong Kong has decided to come clean with data on a dangerous form of air pollution, a month and a half after Beijing, a city with smoggier skies and a murkier approach to statistics, did the same.

Long before the disaster at Fukushima Daiichi, nuclear engineers were working on solutions to problems similar to those that contributed to the accident.

Developing countries with an insatiable thirst for electricity are going full speed ahead with new reactors a year after the Fukushima Daiichi disaster disrupted the growth of nuclear power around