Thousands of people in southern Japan remain cut off by floods and mudslides triggered by torrential rains that have killed at least 26 people, local authorities say.

Four UK carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects and one marine energy scheme are under consideration for up to €1.5bn of EU funding.

America declared a natural disaster in more than 1,000 drought-stricken counties in 26 states on Thursday.

The destruction of great swaths of the Brazilian Amazon has turned scores of rare species into the walking dead, doomed to disappear even if deforestation were halted in the region overnight, accor

Study calculated each country's efforts to reduce energy use in industry, transport, and buildings as well as overall policies

In 2003, his swollen, hazy, sodium-coloured sun brooded over the vast volume of the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern.

Senegal's capitol city Dakar sticks out into the Atlantic Ocean on a peninsula.

The high court will rule on Thursday on whether farmers and landowners can legally cull thousands of badgers to tackle tuberculosis in cattle.

Judgment day approaches for the UK wind power industry, with the government's decision on how much to reduce subsidies by "imminent", I'm told.

Protecting householders from devastating floods of the kind seen over the last few weeks across the UK will cost at least £860m by 2015, the government's climate change advisers have warned.