The poor environmental practices of the former Soviet Union and other eastern European states over many decades is well documented.

A report based on new satellite imagery says forests on the slopes of Alberta's Rocky Mountains are disappearing more quickly than anywhere else in the province — including the oilsands area.

The European Union needs an ambitious emissions-reduction goal, targets for energy-efficiency and renewables as well as tools to foster investment under its planned 2030 policies, an advisory panel

According to new data released this week, May 2014 is officially the warmest May in recorded history.

Japan, the world’s fourth-largest buyer of timber products, needs to introduce laws and stricter oversight to stamp out imports of illegally logged wood, said the Environmental Investigation Agency

Russia’s ban on smoking in bars and restaurants took effect yesterday as the government pressed on with a crackdown on tobacco consumption in the face of protests from cigarette makers.

Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity Jumped 27.5% for Adults, 47.1% for Kids From 1980 to 2013

A sweeping antismoking bill enacted in Russia last year has resulted in a 12% drop in cigarette consumption in what had been the world's second largest market, a legislator in charge of national he