Pope Benedict XVI on Thursday accused humanity of squandering the earth's resources to satisfy its insatiable appetite for material goods, in one of his strongest-ever messages on the environment...

In this year's World Energy Outlook, the International Energy Agency (IEA) breaks with its tradition of allaying concerns about the availability of oil. Instead, it calls for an urgent transition to a more sustainable global energy system to avert a...

America's food-waste problem is getting worse. In many countries one of the side effects of the second world war was to breed a generation that could not abide waste. Newspapers, jars and string were diligently saved and reused. Glass bottles were...

Is global warming a trick? That is what some saw in a huge batch of e-mails and documents taken from the servers of the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia, in England, and put up anonymously on the web. The result has been a...

In the optimistic view, Barack Obama has given a jolt of energy to the Copenhagen climate talks. On November 25th the White House announced that he will appear during the first week of negotiations with a specific American promise: to cut greenhouse...

A majority of the world's climate scientists have convinced themselves, and also a lot of laymen, some of whom have political power, that the Earth's climate is changing; that the change, from humanity's point of view, is for the worse; and that the...

The White House said Wednesday that President Barack Obama would present a provisional target at the Copenhagen summit meeting on climate next month to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.