The contamination comes after four United States bombs fell on the Almería village in 1966 after a mid-air accident

Satellite imagery released in January showed that as much as 2,700 square miles (4,345 kilometers) of the massive Brazilian Amazon was cleared between August and December of 2007-about 60 percent more land than during the same five months in 2006

The peak of the Stubai Mountains in the Austrian Alps has vanished. It was around a couple of months back, but since then no one can say exactly when it disappeared.

Former Vice President Al Gore will launch a three-year, $300 million campaign Wednesday aimed at mobilizing Americans to push for aggressive reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions.

Energy companies and other business interests have launched a NATIONWIDE CAMPAIGN TO UNDERMINE CLIMATE CHANGE LEGISLATION pending in Congress, saying it could cost millions of jobs, drive gasoline prices sharply higher.

WASHINGTON, DC, March 18, 2008 (ENS) - The biggest single year increase in greenhouse gas emissions from U.S. power plants in nine years occurred in 2007, finds a new analysis by the nonprofit, nonpartisan Environmental Integrity Project.

A cool Arctic winter has brought sea ice back to broad expanses that melted during last summer's unusual warmth. However, the amount of thick "perennial ice" has declined sharply across the Arctic, and climate experts say that global warming is the cause.

Last month, a team of American, British and Canadian researchers concluded that not a single square foot of ocean had been left untouched by modern society, and that humans had fouled 41 percent of the seas with polluted runoff, overfishing and other abus

SUNDAY, 17 february 2008 1. Chernobyl, Ukraine 2. Sumqayit, Azerbaijan 3. Vapi, India 4. Tianying, China 5. Sukinda, India

Global demand for meat has multiplied in recent years, encouraged by growing affluence and nourished by the proliferation of huge, confined animal feeding operations.