Thailand's capital, Bangkok, was braced for more flooding on Sunday as water levels rose in some of it's northern suburbs and troops raced to fortify defense walls to protect two key industrial zon

A federal court rejected a bid by conservationists for an immediate halt to wolf hunts in Idaho and Montana on Tuesday, but the judges said they would reconsider the request next month.

Environmental hazards sicken or kill millions of people — soot or smog in the air, for example, or pollutants in drinking water.

The South African government will enact an emissions cap and new energy industry regulations in an effort to spur development of alternative, clean and renewable energy and mitigate climate change.

Thailand's budget deficit would be far higher than planned because of the worst flooding in 50 years, the government said on Tuesday, and people in Bangkok were told not to drop their guard even if

A new study has looked at accurately measuring each nation's contribution of carbon dioxide into the Earth's atmosphere.

Shenyang is a large city in Northeastern China, not far from the border with North Korea.

Salvage teams pumped oil on Monday from a stricken container ship off the New Zealand coast, ahead of bad weather which could split the vessel into two and spew more oil onto beaches.

North American forests appear to have a greater capacity to soak up heat-trapping carbon dioxide gas than researchers had previously anticipated.

The tiny phytoplankton Emiliania huxleyi, invisible to the naked eye, plays an outsized role in drawing carbon from the atmosphere and sequestering it deep in the seas.