The airline industry wants emissions reduction targets rather than taxes and should work to switch to clean fuels by 2020, Virgin Group founder Richard Branson said in an interview.

Scientists who study the melting of Greenland's glaciers are discovering that water flowing beneath the ice plays a much more complex role than they previously imagined.

When Dan and Diane O'Neil first went off the grid at their home outside Billings, Mont., they didn't have much choice. With no nearby neighbors, the cost of extending electrical service to their rural home was way out of reach...

Honduras has been hit harder by extreme weather events than almost any other country over the last 18 years, says a study of weather-related losses, released here as the climate summit continues this week.

Archaeologists working in Akron, Ohio, claim to have found the world's oldest three-dimensional representation of Santa Claus.

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Japan's Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama Tuesday asked his visiting Australian counterpart Kevin Rudd to rein in activists disrupting Japan's annual whale hunt, describing their actions as "sabotage."

In ancient times, people with exceptional vision discovered that one of the brightest stars in the Big Dipper was, in fact, two stars so close together that most people cannot distinguish them. The two stars, Alcor and Mizar, were the first binary stars

Baby black holes are puny compared with their humongous cousins at the centres of galaxies, but their birth may spew out the universe's mightiest particles.

In a sense, the work being done this week in Copenhagen is really about saving on the Earth's electric -- and water -- bill.