Environment

Scientists suggest that the world has at most ten years before the dangerous trends of global warming are irreversible.

Ocean tidal power, the hydraulic energy in the globe's waters, may constitute a massive untapped potential of much needed alternative energy.

Rising populations, economic growth and climate change have become underlying challenges of sustainable development and need to be confronted before future crises appear.

Scientists suggest that the past decade has led to a dramatic acceleration of ice loss in Greenland's fast shrinking ice sheet.

Energy and environment ministers of the G8 met with their peers from the world's most populous developing nations to discuss climate change.

The notion of sustainable development may pose a problem as the contradictions of fast human development and the slow conditions of evolution are combined.

Helle C. Dale of the Heritage Foundation discusses how a lack of economic liberalization is besetting European countries with profound problems.