More than 120 Chinese scholars have filed a petition to the nation's top legislature, demanding, on the grounds of bio-safety, the revocation of the Agriculture Ministry's certificates on two transgenic rice breeds and more cautious licensing in the future.

Venezuela is undergoing its worst-ever power crisis, prompting President Hugo Chavez to declare the nation "in emergency" and impose drastic rationing. One positive spinoff is that Venezuelans are finally becoming environmentally conscious.

Corporate America needs to track its use of energy and resources as closely as it does its hiring and cash flow if it wants to keep pace with social concern about climate change and other sustainability issues, an activist U.S. investor group argues in a new report.

The governments of Xi'an and Xianyang, two major cities in northwest China's Shaanxi Province, have been fined a total of 500,000 yuan ($73,530) for polluting a tributary of the Yellow River, the local environment watchdog said Thursday.

A new technology that cuts nitrogen fertilizer waste in half while increasing rice yields is spreading quickly in Bangladesh and is being investigated by 15 other nations. Nitrogen fertilizer waste contributes to global warming, coastal "dead zones," and other problems.

“Empty” increasingly describes the southern Niger town of Tanout in Zinder Region: Water wells and pastures, fields and food banks - and slowly - entire villages, are emptying.

At a tumultuous time in U.N.-led climate negotiations, one of the world’s most credible scientific groups agreed Wednesday to plug the recent cracks in the authoritative reports of the United Nations’ Nobel Prize-winning global warming panel.

With Lithuania’s EU membership, the country has committed itself to meeting its waste management and environment protection requirements, but the policy-making may be the toughest when it comes to the ordinary people’s mindset.

Arsenic levels detected in the toenail clippings of kids living in the Victorian Goldfields are not alarming, but suggest that people should not be complacent, according to researchers.

Cheiljedang Corporation said yesterday it has developed a new nice of antibiotic-replacement for use in poultry feed, allowing it to receive a grip on the growing global market demand for safe antibiotic alternatives.

The Department of Mineral Resources would not approve the controversial application by state-owned mining company to prospect and possibly mine in the Western Cape winelands in South Africa.

Their Majesties the King and Queen are worried about the growing problem of water shortages affecting people in several parts of the country – and about the likelihood of food shortages, particularly of rice.

China would step up food-safety efforts by, in part, expanding supervision to reach more of the country's myriad tiny farms, a top agricultural official said yesterday.

In Haiti, acute medical emergencies have largely given way to the types of chronic illnesses and infectious diseases one often sees in developing countries.

The oil sands giant Syncrude Canada has entered the second week of a high-profile case brought by prosecutors over the deaths two years ago of 1,600 migrating ducks that were trapped in the toxic sludge floating on one of the company’s vast tailings ponds.

Earth is like a big life raft, and due to global consumerism and increased population, our water-related problems are going to increase, not decrease as time goes by.

A Nanaimo bylaw dealing with cosmetic pesticides that will go to council later this month doesn't have much bite unless senior levels of government ban their sale.

A group representing oilsands and other resource companies says it has convinced the Alberta government to change a plan that would force corporations to spend big money to restore wetlands ruined by mining projects.

The negative fallout from climate change is having a devastatingly lopsided impact on women compared to men, from higher death rates during natural disasters to heavier household and care burdens.

There is a new trend amongst Dutch multinationals: some executive remunerations are now based on meeting sustainability targets, such as reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Is this a green revolution? Or just a convenient way to keep handing out bonuses?

You expect to find toxic chemicals in cleaning products and pesticides. But you wouldn't think toxins could be in your bed--or worse yet, your baby's crib.

Biting bugs are buzzing northward and asthma has spread like a dust cloud, but there are deep divisions about how concerned health and life insurers should be about disease and death caused by climate change.

The first delivery of at least 850 canisters of high-level radioactive vitrified waste arrived Tuesday morning by boat from the U.K. in Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture, where it will sit in storage for decades before being buried deep underground.

The Uganda government has now declared the scene of the Bududa landslides a mass grave. So far 92 bodies have been dug out of the rubble by the army and rescue workers and over 300 people are still missing. Experts warn that the worst is yet to arrive.

A growing number of experts within the scientific and economic communities say that putting real economic value on components of nature will help protect the environment and promote biodiversity.

Since Christmas, parched areas of New South Wales, Australia's most populous state, have received their best rains in a decade, fuelling hopes the continent's worst drought in a century may finally be easing.

Two independent reports into one of Queensland's worst environmental disasters have criticised the clean-up effort, with one federal agency saying delays worsened the ecological impact.

A new study shows that people are more likely to cheat and steal after buying green products.

Nearly two decades after vets began returning from the Middle East complaining of Gulf War Syndrome, the federal government has yet to formally accept that it is a legitimate illness. Now researchers have rolled out a host of brain images that they say graphically and unambiguously depict Gulf War Syndrome.

This week, the European Union quietly gave the green light to farmers to grow fields of genetically modified potatoes. It marks the first time that Brussels has approved any GMO cultivation since a moratorium 12 years ago.