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The European Union has been a world leader on climate change, passing groundbreaking legislation to reduce noxious greenhouse gases. Now the world is pushing back.Government officials and business...

For more than half a century, concerns about oil shortages or a damaged climate have spurred governments to invest in alternative energy sources.In the 1970s, President Jimmy Carter placed solar...

Switzerland is set to hold a vote on measures designed to limit immigration to stop the population hitting 10 million before 2050, after enough signatures were deposited on Wednesday.Under...

LONDON : For more than half a century, the handbook for how developing countries can grow rich hasn’t changed much: Move subsistence farmers into manufacturing jobs, and then sell what they produce...

Stopping at the edge of a vast field of barley on his farm in Prundu, 30 miles outside Romania’s capital city of Bucharest, Catalin Corbea pinched off a spiky flowered head from a stalk, rolled it...

Nicolae Ciuca spent a lifetime on the battlefield before being voted in as prime minister of Romania four months ago.Yet even he did not imagine the need to spend millions of dollars for emergency...