A biofuels company set up in Brazil by oil giant Shell has signed a landmark agreement giving up plans to buy sugar cane grown on indigenous lands.

GM crops that make their own insecticide also deliver benefits for their conventional plant neighbours, a study in China has concluded.

Exhaust fumes from diesel engines do cause cancer, a panel of experts working for the World Health Organization says.

Rural communities across Africa may soon benefit from improved water supplies thanks to mobile phone technology.

Combine Harvester MPs backed the aims of the Commission, but argued against its methods

Cabinet Member for Environment, Jack Scott, said Sheffield City Council was considering asking the government to reduce the speed limit to 50mph.

A new earthquake has struck the Emilia region in northern Italy, killing at least 10 people and burying several others under rubble, local media say.

Anti-GM protesters who had planned to "decontaminate" a field of modified wheat in Hertfordshire have been stopped from entering by a police line.

Tackling polio has entered "emergency mode" according to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative after "explosive" outbreaks in countries previously free of the disease.

A minister in Ivory Coast has been sacked over his alleged role in the disappearance of millions of dollars meant for victims of pollution.