Jeremiah Sarudza stands outside his mud and thatch hut and watches his wife and children prepare a tobacco field surrounded by tree stumps.

About 60 million Nigerians live in poverty, with more than half of them in the north of Africa’s most populous nation, the U.K.’s Department for International Development said.

Solar power might become the world’s largest source of electricity by 2050 as falling costs boost installations, according to the International Energy Agency.

Climate change can make heat waves more likely and more severe, according to a study in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society that found fewer clear links to extreme weather such as d

European cars probably discharged 38 percent more polluting carbon dioxide on real-world roads last year than their ratings promised, a widening gap with both consumer and environmental implication

Japan has added 11,090 megawatts of clean energy capacity since July 2012, when it began an incentive program to encourage investment in renewables, according to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and

Hong Kong’s air pollution may today reach “serious” level, the worst rating, as light winds fail to disperse smog, the government said.

A $74 million Indian spacecraft entered orbit around Mars today after an almost yearlong voyage, and for 11 percent the cost of the U.S.’s Maven probe.

Cities have the potential to reduce annual greenhouse-gas emissions by 8 gigatons by 2050, the equivalent of cutting global coal use by more than half, through better energy-management at the local

Growing use of natural gas fails to benefit the environment because it slows the spread of renewable energy sources, according to a study released today.