Environment

To reduce carbon emissions, France has now banned most outdoor heating.

Belgium's new 'boarding tax' costs five times as much for a short-haul flight as for a longer one to encourage more use of trains

Brussels is just too loud, an environmental group says, and it's shortening life expectancy

France's ban on short-haul flights takes effect next month, but it's not as absolute as its proponents wish

Comprising 15 white-sand islands scattered across a vast expanse of clear-blue Pacific Ocean, the Cook Islands is located between New Zealand and Hawaii and until recently was largely unknown in much of the world.

Belgian bird-watchers are checking out the Brussels area to see what changes are happening in the avian world

University researchers are pushing a plan that would help lower city temperatures by painting roofs white to reflect heat away from buildings.

Two prominent politicians get caught in a buzz-saw of criticism over their flying habits.

The beauty of the small islands of the Maldives, ProfessorAbe reminds us, is threatened by erosion and rising sea levels.

New reports show that climate change is happening fastest in the Arctic.

Cigarette butt collection is being outsourced to a murder of crows in a Swedish experiment.

A gas fire that has burned for decades in Central Asia may be extinguished, officials say.