A writer and environmental activist who was present at the final Copenhagen climate talks says China sabotaged the deal and ensured Barack Obama would shoulder the blame. While China’s Premier Wen Jiabao insisted his government had played an...

Prospects for a strong U.N. climate pact grew more remote on Thursday at the climax of two-year talks as ministers and leaders blamed leading emitters China and the United States for deadlock on carbon cuts. Dozens of heads of state were arriving in...

Is Barack Obama making a habit of spurning Scandinavian royals? The president caused some annoyance to Norwegians last week when he turned down lunch with the king after picking up his Nobel prize. Apparently lunch with the monarch is part of the ritual...

No one who saw it will ever forget Severn Suzuki’s six-minute address to the United Nations Earth Summit in Brazil in 1992. The 12-year-old Canadian schoolgirl berated the gathering for allowing greed and apathy to devastate the environment and...

Denmark and Germany have signed a formal agreement to build a 12.4-mile bridge across the Baltic Sea between the two countries.