Green taxes are among ways to spur jobs and economic revival despite less focus on environmental solutions since the U.N.'s Copenhagen summit in 2009, Norway's Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said Monday.
After winning accolades from Conde Nast Traveller Magazine UK edition Jalousie Plantation Resort in Sugar Beach St. Lucia is gearing up to renovate itself and creating a new branding as the Tides Sugar Beach.
Recent research by experts from the Macquarie University reveals doctors are being pressure to give children a diagnosis of behavior problems they probably do not have, in order to get them admitted to special education schools.
Scientists and environmentalists lambasted the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA) on Wednesday for failing to conclude the safety review of many pesticides for as long as 17 years.
Venus, Mars, Saturn align with crescent Moon pop out of the western twilight before the Perseid meteor shower, which is caused by debris from Comet Swift-Tuttle.
The Australian government will provide $85 million in funds for use in preventing childbirth deaths in Pacific island countries in the next four years.
Several U.S. government agencies are preparing a criminal probe of at least three companies involved in the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, though it could take more than a year before any charges are filed, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday.
A increase in labour disputes between management and workers in China, mostly at foreign-owned factories in the southeast, has raised questions about the country's future as a low-cost manufacturing centre.
Worries that China is throwing up obstacles to foreign business are misplaced, Commerce Minister Chen Deming said in an article published on Monday.
The former Soviet Central Asian republics are at a precarious crossroad today between accomplishing monumental progress, like Kazakhstan, and flirting with disaster and the prospects of civil war, like Kyrgyzstan.
Upgrades to a wastewater treatment plant in Colorado helped filter out gender-bending chemicals that were affecting fish, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.
European Union countries will coordinate budget plans starting next year, rather than making their own national choices, Italy's Economy Minister Giulio Tremonti said on Sunday.
Hungary's government said on Saturday it aimed to meet this year's budget deficit target, seeking to draw a line under exaggerated talk of a possible Greek-style debt crisis that unnerved global markets a day earlier.
According to the research led by the Aged Care Team at Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital, Chinese-speaking Australians may smoke and drink less than Australians of English-speaking backgrounds, but they are more likely to suffer from diabetes.
According to an Australian survey, more than 80 per cent of respondents said their high level of debt was a significant cause of stress.
Rare earths are indeed getting rare. I got wind of it only a few months back when doing a story on Canada Resource Group and their Blue River Project in British Columbia. It's President David Hodge in an interview said that tantalum that is used in cellphone, laptops, digital camerals and several modern industries is in short supply with Western supply totally eliminated.
According to latest findings released by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW), those living in country and remote areas are more likely to die or need hospital care for cardiovascular disease (CVD).
The world has become far too hot for the aptly named Exit Glacier in Alaska.
One of the most powerful earthquakes in decades battered Chile on Saturday, killing at least 147 people, knocking down buildings and triggering a tsunami that rolled menacingly across the Pacific.
U.S. President Barack Obama meets Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Thursday, a move that has been denounced by China.
Okay, so strictly speaking, Japan's wartime aim was control of the Pacific and not world domination. However, if by some freak accident they had ended up inheriting the human race, things may not have been that bad.
Greek customs officials began a three-day strike on Tuesday to protest against cuts in their income, in a further sign of discontent among public workers with an EU-backed deficit-cutting plan.
