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As the world has talked for a dozen years about what to do next, new ship passages opened through the once frozen summer sea ice of the Arctic. In Greenland and Antarctica, ice sheets have lost trillions of tons of...

The Met Office predicts there will be another 15mm (0.5in) to 40mm (1.6in) of rain in Cumbria, north-west England, where PC Bill Barker died after a bridge collapsed . Cumbria police said about 100 people spent last night in emergency...

A crusade to draw attention to the saturation and dangers of plastic may bob in peculiar fashion as heir to a fortune and a world adventurer attempts to make a 10,000 plus mile journey across the Pacific Ocean on a...

The researchers, however, contend the e-mails have been taken out of context and merely reflect an honest exchange of ideas. University officials confirmed the data breach, which involves more than 1,000 e-mails and 3,000 documents, but said they could not...

Friday, announcing its decision to cancel the tender, citing an article in the bid specification that allowed the firm to scrap the process without any liability. A consortium led by Russia's state nuclear giant Atomstroyexport had won the tender to...

She added that the Commonwealth Meeting is a crucial gathering of leaders in the run-up to the conference set to begin on 7 December in the Danish capital, where countries will aim to reach accord on a successor to the...

The case concerns inadequate waste disposal facilities in Sofia. Bulgaria should have had an adequate network of waste disposal installations in place by the time it joined the EU on January 1 2007 but no solution is in place. Sofia...

Four bridges have collapsed, roads have been blocked, schools closed and rail and bus services severely disrupted. The Environment Agency says hundreds of properties in Cumbria have been flooded with the towns of Cockermouth and Keswick the worst affected. A...

Indoor smoking bans resulted in outdoor smoking areas but they may be creating a new health hazard, U.S. researchers suggest. "Indoor smoking bans have helped to create more of these outdoor environments where people are exposed to secondhand smoke," study...

Royal Dutch Shell Plc's carbon capture and storage project in the Netherlands will proceed in phases, starting with a trial at the smaller of two depleted gas fields below the town of Barendrecht, the government said today. Shell will initially...