It was called Treasure Island in honour of Robert Louis Stevenson's pirate classic, but the artificial island off San Francisco bay has nothing but trouble buried in its soil: radioactive contamina

Aerial spraying of insecticide is set to begin over Dallas on Thursday night as the city battles the worst outbreak of the West Nile virus in the US this year.

Germany's plan to wean itself off nuclear power has suffered a submarine setback.

Plan to expand coal mines and power plants in China's arid provinces threatens to drain water supply, report shows

Opponents of the world's biggest new hydroelectric project - the Belo Monte dam in Brazil - notched up a rare victory this week, when a federal appeals court ordered construction to be suspended un

At least 60 people have been killed in a landslide at a remote Congolese gold mine.

Government approves world's first commercial deep-sea mining project despite vehement objections over threat to marine life

Plan to pull £25m from conservation schemes could affect corncrakes, rare orchids, peatbogs and flower meadows

Many species in some of the most remote vestiges of Britain's overseas territories face extinction unless a government plan to protect them sets out clearly defined preservation targets, according

The future of carbon capture and storage in Europe has been thrown into doubt after £800m was wiped off the value of a prize fund for developing the technology.