In many cities air pollution is reaching levels that threaten people's health according to an unprecedented compilation of air quality data released today by WHO (World Health Organization).

Many countries in Africa are starting to turn the corner economically.

Almost 500 South African miners are seeking health-related compensation from Anglo American through a High Court lawsuit launched in London on Wednesday.

Tropical Storm Ophelia was churning its way toward the Caribbean on Wednesday after intensifying overnight, but U.S. forecasters said it was not expected to strengthen into a hurricane.

Converting West African rainforests into cropland reduces rainforest in adjacent forest areas, reports research published in Geophysical Research Letters.

The annual number of children who die before they reach age five is shrinking, falling to 7.6 million global deaths in 2010 from more than 12 million in 1990, UNICEF and the World Health Organisati

The United Nations will begin debating Monday how to stem a proliferation of chronic diseases that a new report says could cost the global economy trillions of dollars over the next two decades if

The number of young children who die each day has plunged over the past two decades, new United Nations figures show, but the world is still lagging far behind in efforts to achieve its target for

At his weekly gentleman’s club in a village not far from the Kenyan capital, Francis Marimbe Mwathi gathers his friends to dine on “the meat of men”.