Efforts to put a value on greenhouse- gas emissions to contain global warming are being hurt as countries from Australia to Russia and Japan pull back from carbon-reduction commitments, according t

Almost a third of the world is now overweight, and no country has been able to curb obesity rates in the last three decades, according to a new global analysis.

In a startling revelation, a new study has found significant increase in rates of obesity and overweight in both adults (28 per cent increase) and children (up by 47 per cent) in the past 33 years,

Efforts to put a value on greenhouse-gas emissions to contain global warming are being hurt as countries from Australia to Russia and Japan pull back from carbon-reduction commitments, according to

Beijing and Moscow failed to clinch an agreement to pipe Russian gas to China on the first day of Russian President Vladimir Putin's Chinese state visit, signaling that price disagreements remain a

The death toll in Serbia from the worst flooding seen in 1,000 years has risen to 17 as the capital Belgrade braces itself for a “flood wave.”

Renewable energy sources could reduce EU dependence on imported fossil fuels, often supplied from conflict-ridden countries

Russia has lifted its opposition to marine reserves proposed for the Antarctic, with Moscow for the first time laying down its demands to agree to the giant areas being protected.

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Environmental activist Ramesh Agrawal, who helped villagers stop a massive coal mining project, is among six people around the world to be awarded the prestigious Goldman Environment Prize, the org