Two scientists who sat on a nuclear waste committee have alleged that chaotic organistaion drove the committee to approve an option for deep storage of high-level nuclear waste.

The ice island is 37 metres (120ft) thick and measures 9 miles by 3 miles, according to the CanWest News Service. It broke clear from Ellesmere island, about 500 miles south of the North Pole, 16 months ago, triggering tremors so powerful they were picked up by earthquake monitors 155 miles away.

All of the reasons for our failure to address global warming are known. But they are not known widely and deeply enough to send us rushing down the street on bicycles or even in four-cylinder cars.

Far from slowing down, global carbon dioxide emissions are rising faster than before, said a gathering of scientists in Beijing on Friday.

Two federal agencies are investigating whether the Bush administration tried to block government scientists from speaking freely about global warming and censor their research, a senator said Wednesday.

Australia has announced plans to build the world’s biggest solar power station as part of a radical rethink on climate change.

Earth’s temperature could be reaching its highest level in a million years, American scientists said yesterday.

Dozens of exotic new fish and corals have been discovered in a spectacular Indonesian seascape which scientists have hailed as a “species factory” - possibly the richest marine environment in the world.

Tropical Storm Ernesto wobbled but never gave up late Tuesday, lashing South Florida’s coast with increasingly squally waves of rain…

Experts today accused ministers of ignoring the lessons of Hurricane Katrina, warning that the kind of deluge that overwhelmed…

A man who claims to have developed a free energy technology which could power everything…

Cleaning up the sites of Britain’s ageing or defunct nuclear power stations will cost “significantly” more than the…

Up to 700 people are now feared dead after heavy rains caused devastating floods in Ethiopia.

An area the size of New York City was destroyed in forest fires that raged across northwestern Spain this month…