Afforestation, planting trees in an area where there have previously been no trees, can reduce the effect of climate change by cooling temperate regions, finds a study in BioMed Central's open acce

Germany and six other EU nations hold the key to the decision on a rescue plan for the world's biggest carbon market after prices slumped due to record oversupply, three EU officials with knowledge

European Union fisheries ministers hammered out a 2013 quota deal on Thursday which they said struck a compromise between protecting over-exploited stocks such as haddock and plaice and safeguardin

For a millennium, the majestic, lily-white polar bear has lorded over the frozen wastes of the Arctic.

DOHA: Host Qatar plans to start a ministerial-level closed door meeting at the ongoing UN climate negotiations but outside the formal schedule, which could potentially short circuit and make redund

The number of English counties suffering outbreaks of ash dieback disease in the wild has more than doubled, the government said on Wednesday.

The government's emergency committee Cobra is meeting to discuss the fungal threat to the nation's ash trees.

EU environment ministers clashed over a huge surplus of UN pollution permits, a technical spat with the potential to derail international efforts to tackle climate change.