Climate scientists at a top UK research unit have emerged from an inquiry with their reputations for honesty intact but with a lack of openness criticised.

The US Coast Guard chief says cleaning up marshlands affected by the Gulf of Mexico oil spill will take years.

The US Coast Guard has set fire to part of a big oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico, in an attempt to save environmentally fragile wetlands.

The amount of water used to produce food and goods imported to developed countries is worsening water shortages in the developing world, a report says.

A shipment of genetically modified (GM) maize has been blocked at the Kenyan port of Mombasa after protests by environmentalists.

Gorillas may go extinct in much of central Africa by the mid-2020s -- victims of a meat trade, of logging and mining, and even the Ebola virus, a new report says.

The world's net rate of forest loss has slowed markedly in the last decade, with less logging in the Amazon and China planting trees on a grand scale.

Governments need to crack down on illegal tiger trading if the big cats are to be saved, the UN has warned.

Urgent action is needed to tackle the "mountains" of e-waste building up in developing nations, says a UN report.

Back in the mid-zeroes, I remember reading a lot of stories about a buildup of trash in the Pacific Ocean so massive that it had formed a floating island of waste the size of Texas.

Nearly half the world's primate species are in danger of extinction, according to a report released Wednesday by a major conservation group.

The world's oceans are becoming acidic at a faster rate than at any time in the last 65 million years, threatening marine life and food supplies across the globe, according to a new study.

The organizers of the Winter Olympics that kicked off this weekend in Vancouver are hoping to stage some of the greenest Games ever, thanks to a partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme 

BEIJING -- A new government survey of China's environmental problems has shown that water pollution levels in 2007 were more than twice the official estimate, largely because agricultural waste was ignored.

The long term survival of polar bears is being threatened by man-made pollution that is reaching the Arctic.

When Anne Croft fertilizes her tiny lawn in Washington, D.C.'s Capitol Hill neighborhood, she has no idea that she's contributing to the pollution that still vexes the Chesapeake Bay after 25 years of cleanup.

AUCKLAND: Pacific tuna will be vulnerable to severe overfishing for at least another year after negotiations to protect one of the most threatened species failed.

Aid agency Oxfam warns that a failure of rains across swathes of East Africa is putting millions of lives at risk.

London, England (CNN) -- "If we don't get it right we are all done for," Archbishop Desmond Tutu says of efforts to combat climate change.

Acidification of the oceans is a major threat to marine life and humanity's food supply, Hilary Benn is to warn as the UN climate summit resumes.

A major split between developing countries has emerged at the UN climate talks in Copenhagen, Denmark.

The US government has declared that greenhouse gases threaten human health.

The UN's official panel on climate change has hit back at sceptics' claims that the case for human influence on global warming has been exaggerated.

E-mails hacked from a climate research institute suggest climate change does not have a human cause, according to Saudi Arabia's lead climate negotiator.

A group of Nigerian farmers is suing Royal Dutch Shell, claiming that the oil firm polluted their land in the Niger Delta region.

Rome - Climate change is projected to impact heavily on agriculture, forestry and fisheries in the Pacific islands, leading to increased food insecurity and malnutrition, FAO warned today

There's an experiment going on in the redwood forests of northern California: people are trying to turn trees into "carbon banks."

When people talk about the impact of rising sea levels, they often think of small island states that risk being submerged if global warming continues unchecked.

Climate has been a major driver of armed conflict in Africa, research shows - and future warming is likely to increase the number of deaths from war.

GENEVA — Greenhouse gases in the Earth's atmosphere reached record highs in 2008, with carbon dioxide levels increasing faster than previously, the U.N. weather agency said Monday.

WASHINGTON — Since the 1997 international accord to fight global warming, climate change has worsened and accelerated — beyond some of the grimmest of warnings made back then.

SUSPINI, Indonesia — When all else fails, they return to the “magic water.” And take a step backward, every time.

Gaza's aquifer and only natural freshwater source is "in danger of collapse," the UN is warning.

Scientists have confirmed that there are millions of tonnes of plastic floating in an area of ocean known as the North Pacific Gyre.

British metals giant AMC has announced it is to suspend purchases of tin ore from the Democratic Republic of Congo.

BEING HELD at gunpoint by 30 drunk and angry militia in the middle of the night on a deserted road in one of the most dangerous war zones in the world was not our plan when we started out the day.

These projections of per-capita water availability were made by Martina Floerke and colleagues at the University of Kassel in Germany.

SYDNEY, Australia — Strong worldwide economic growth has accelerated the level of greenhouse-gas emissions in the atmosphere to a dangerous threshold scientists had not expected for another decade, according to a leading Australian climate change expert.

Microscopic particles of plastic could be poisoning the oceans, according to a British team of researchers.