OSLO: Climate change has caused severe harm to human health since the year 2000 by stoking more heat waves, the spread of some mosquito-borne diseases and...
OSLO: Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi is the latest in a long line of Nobel Peace Prize laureates to disappoint many of those who once applauded her, and...
OSLO: U.S. President Donald Trump’s pullout from the Paris climate agreement will make it harder for the least developed nations to adhere to their...
BONN, Germany: Many countries are pinning their hopes on China and India to lead efforts to slow climate change amid a sense of resignation that U.S....
OSLO: The Arctic’s quickening thaw is melting the permafrost under buildings and roads from Siberia to Alaska, raising world sea levels and disrupting...
OSLO-STOCKHOLM: Norwegian officials called the school guards “extra supervision.” Critics said the plan to post security personnel near an Oslo school in case...
STOCKHOLM/OSLO: Nordic countries are leading a shift by rich nations toward cashless societies, providing a test case for whether the lower cost and...
OSLO: Small volcanic eruptions help explain a hiatus in global warming this century by dimming sunlight and offsetting a rise in emissions of heat-trapping...
OSLO: A thawing Antarctic glacier that is the biggest contributor to rising sea levels is likely to continue shrinking for decades, even without an extra spur...
OSLO: A kind of rock that often contains diamonds has been found in Antarctica for the first time, hinting at mineral riches in the vast, icy continent –...
OSLO: The global chemical weapons watchdog working to eliminate chemical arms stockpiles around the battlefields of Syria's civil war won the 2013 Nobel...
OSLO: A decline in the diversity of farmed plants and livestock breeds is gathering pace, threatening future food supplies for the world's growing population,...
OSLO: Scientists are struggling to explain a slowdown in climate change that has exposed gaps in their understanding and defies a rise in global greenhouse...
OSLO: Norway's buzzing little market for pure electric cars has in its very success shown the severe drawbacks to a model that relies on public subsidies...
OSLO: A new United Nations plan to involve all nations in marshalling science to fix environmental problems ranging from toxic chemicals to climate change...
ABOARD HAUNES, Norwegian Sea: It was hours before dawn on a heaving Arctic sea, and snow showers were making it hard for Kurt Ludvigsen to find his fishing...
OSLO: U.S. President Barack Obama won praise abroad on Tuesday for his pledge to lead the fight against climate change, which has faltered as nations argue...
OSLO: About 3,000 reindeer on an island near Antarctica are to be slaughtered to stop damage to the environment by the descendants of a tiny herd introduced a...
OSLO: An agreement by almost 200 nations to curb rising greenhouse gas emissions from 2020 will be far more costly than taking action now to tackle climate...
DOHA: Extreme weather is the new normal and poses a threat to the human race, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday, as he sought to revive...
DOHA: Qatar permitted a rare protest for workers' rights on Saturday at a government-approved rally of about 300 activists demanding action to combat climate...
DOHA: Evidence that global warming is man-made is getting stronger, the head of a U.N. panel of climate scientists said, in a further blow to sceptics who...
DOHA: Extreme weather from melting Arctic ice to Superstorm Sandy shows snail-paced U.N. climate talks have to do more to cut greenhouse gas emissions, the...
LULEA, Sweden: In contrast to worries from the Maldives to Manhattan of storm surges and higher ocean levels caused by climate change, the entire northern...
OSLO/SINGAPORE: Many nations need to do more to slow extinctions of animals and plants under United Nations targets for 2020 that would also save the world...