World Bank says region bears brunt of natural disasters, accounting for 80 percent of lives lost globally
Shell says leak occurred in pipeline that transfers crude oil from production vessel to waiting oil tanker
New rules, decades in the making, will affect 1300 power plants, half of which lack modern air-pollution controls
Hydraulic fracturing raises health concerns
Pennsylvania residents blame illness on natural gas extraction
Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale Reservoir holds largest US supply
Farmers destroy 300, 000 hectares of trees annually to cure their crops
Taiwan proposes an unusual plan to ease pollution village by village
Wilderness students separate the delicious from the deadly
But for now, Japan is breathing a slight sigh of relief after official word the crippled reactors are now in a 'cold shutdown' state
Agency says more than 1 million children face life-threatening malnutrition due to serious food shortages
Some residents concerned extraction process could contaminate water supplies
Rising costs expected to become more frequent, according to International Food Policy Research Institute
Many trees and tree species being lost in Sahel
