Environment

Polish inventor and entrepreneur Jerzy Wysocki catches a brown plate -- still warm -- as it drops out of a machine and he begins to eat the crunchy,...

Hundreds of tonnes of imported plastic waste will be shipped back to where it came from, Malaysia said Tuesday, insisting the country did not...

Sarah Darwin, the great-great granddaughter of British biologist Charles Darwin, was sleepless in Berlin when, to her "enormous surprise", she...

The European Court of Justice has thrown out a landmark case brought by 10 families who sued the European Union over the threats climate change...

Thirty years after Saddam Hussein starved them of water, Iraq's southern marshes are blossoming once more thanks to a wave of ecotourists picnicking...

Washington on Tuesday became the first US state to legalize human composting after its eco-friendly governor signed a bill to that effect in...

Hawaiian "super corals" that have recovered despite living in warm and acidic water offer a glimmer of hope that dying reefs across the world...

Scientists in the United States have detected the highest levels of planet-warming carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere since records began,...

Environmental protesters spilled fake blood Sunday on the steps of the Trocadero, a Paris tourist landmark, in a stunt to highlight the accelerated...

France has opened an preliminary enquiry into alleged illegal files put together for US pesticides maker Monsanto on the views and pliability...

A herd of endangered deer wait under the shade of one of the sparse trees in this parched central Myanmar landscape, watching as rangers dispatch...

The closure of the glittering Thai bay made famous by the movie "The Beach" has been extended for another two years to allow a full recovery...

Humanity is squandering the natural capital that has allowed society to thrive, driving a million species to the brink of extinction in the process,...

Humanity is rapidly destroying the natural world upon which our prosperity -- and ultimately our survival -- depends, according to a landmark...

Whether humanity has pushed the planet into a "mass extinction" event may be a matter of definition, but by any measure the rate at which life-forms...

Revamping global food production, retooling the financial sector, moving beyond GDP as a measure of progress and other "transformative changes"...