FRANKFURT— Bayer AG’s big push into the U.S. agrochemical market with its planned acquisition of Monsanto Co. could help it offset a growing problem on its home turf: increasingly stringent European regulation.
The European Union's executive body will propose that oil extracted from sands should be treated as dirtier than conventional oil, a move that will inflame a spat with Canada, a major producer of oil from
The Environmental Protection Agency, under pressure from some states, industry and Congress, is expected to ease an air quality rule that would require power plants in 27 states to slash emissions, said
Three U.S.-born researchers shared the 2011 Nobel Prize in physics for discovering that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate, a startling result that overturned prevailing theories and sparked
India and 25 other nations including the U.S. and China have decided to oppose the European Union's plans to include airlines in its system to limit greenhouse gas emissions, according to a joint declaration.
Rescuers scrambled Sunday to deliver food and water to hundreds of villagers stuck on rooftops for days because of flooding in the northern Philippines, where back-to-back typhoons have left at least 55
A summer of record flooding along the Missouri River is leaving a band of destruction—broken roads, drowned farmland and condemned houses—through the nation's midsection. The country's longest river
Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSB.LN) said Monday that it won't restart its fire-hit oil refinery at Pulau Bukom, Singapore unless safety is ensured, even though the damage is limited to the vicinity of a pump-house.
Japanese and South Korean companies have won the highest marks in Asia for “responsible” investing, which remains in its infancy in these countries, in a new survey by Eiris, an environmental research
Trace amounts of plutonium were found as far as 28 miles from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear-power plant, the first time that the dangerous element released from the accident was found outside of
China urged Myanmar to protect the rights of its companies after the Southeast Asian nation's president ordered the suspension of construction of a contested hydroelectric dam backed by Beijing. The
