A row has erupted over rubbish after skip operators complained they were being subjected to a 2,500% increase in the tax for dumping waste.

US state proposes new law that would ignore grim projections of a one-metre sea-level rise by the end of the century

A coalition of Brazil's leading conservation groups have condemned the country's president Dilma Rousseff for pardoning illegal deforesters, weakening protection of the Amazon and rowing back on ef

European courts may be asked to decide whether Britain acted illegally by proposing not to clean up air pollution in British cities for over a decade after an appeal was dismissed.

The study found that subsidising geothermal technology initially would help to bring down costs rapidly as UK sites were developed

'No GM spuds," proclaimed a banner wielded by protesters in opposition to a trial of genetically modified crops last weekend.

Analysis of 28 companies finds cases of support for thinktanks that misrepresent climate science, including Heartland Institute

The blazing blue skies that Germany baked under last weekend added a fresh gleam to the nation's renewable energy revolution: a new world record for solar power generation, equivalent to 20 nuclear

Bluefin tuna contaminated with radiation believed to be from Fukushima Daiichi turned up off the coast of California just five months after the Japanese nuclear plant suffered meltdown last March,

Greenhouse gas emissions for the European Union increased in 2010, despite the economic recession and policies intended to tackle climate change.