Chinese wind projects illustrate the way regulators within a country can game the carbon credit system, by lowering subsidies and tweaking power prices in order to qualify for carbon credit subsidies.

U.S. food aid programs spend more than 50 cents of each dollar on shipping, which is restricted to a small group of U.S. companies that lobby Congress.

The Europe-wide scam is one of the latest in a series of carbon credit scandals mounting worldwide as the industry booms.

A Canadian study steered the building of the contentious Three Gorges dam, but warnings existed, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Interview with China's vice-minister Pan Yue, second-in-command at the state environmental protection administration, about recent crackdowns on the country's major polluters.

A 20-year-old who took part in angry local protests against the Pubugou dam in Sichuan province two years ago was executed in late November, with neither his family nor his lawyer notified beforehand

Since the 1950s, 22 million people have been moved to make way for hydropower dams in China, according to official statistics. Most of the affected people are still living in poverty. Although some h

As the Three Gorges Project Corporation prepares to start work on a string of dams on the Jinsha River (as the upper Yangtze is called), a group of Sichuan University undergraduates has won accolades

Much of China watched in horror as work crews struggled to contain the recent benzene spill that polluted the northeastern Songhua River and disrupted drinking water supplies to about 12 million peop

Mainland environmentalists in China have launched a petition urging the government to fast-track the establishment of an earthquake warning system in the southwest. They said it would help prevent a