The world will have enough wind turbines to generate more than 300 gigawatts of power - the equivalent of 114 nuclear power plants - by the end of the year, industry figures show.

The planet is on track to warm by four degrees celsius by the year 2100, if the global community fails to act on climate change, a new report by Climate Action Tracker has said.

Climate change is likely to worsen floods on rivers such as the Ganges, the Nile and the Amazon this century while a few, including the now-inundated Danube, may become less prone, a Japanese-led s

Burning coal also costs companies and governments billions of pounds in disease treatment and lost working days

Germany has put forward a fresh proposal on regulating carbon dioxide limits for cars sold in the European Union, which campaigners say is a last-ditch attempt to dilute a new emissions law.

River Elbe more than 6 metres above normal level as military and national disaster team work frantically to hold back floodwaters

Dresden (Germany): Central Europe’s worst floods in over a decade claimed a 12th victim on Wednesday as torrents of muddy water surged down swollen rivers through the Czech Republic and into German

Few issues in Delhi whip people into as much of a frenzy as Jindal's Okhla-based waste-to-energy plant.

Despite poor pace of capacity addition in the states like Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Maharashtra , India retained its position in top five world wind energy markets in 2012 .

Shares of German panel-makers zoom, Beijing calls for dialogue

The European Commission agreed to impose punitive import duties on solar panels from China in a move to guard against what it sees as dumping of cheap goods in Europe, prompting a cautious response from Beijing which called for further dialogue. EU commissioners backed EU trade chief Karel De Gucht’s proposal to levy the provisional duties by June 6 and make Chinese solar exports less attractive, two officials said.