Last year, a record 30.6 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide poured into the atmosphere – a rise of 1.6Gt on 2009, according to the International Energy Agency estimates.

Several thousand Japanese anti-nuclear protesters have marched in the rain, welcoming a call from the prime minister to shut down a plant in central Japan

Japanese engineers are close to stopping pumping radioactive water into the sea and start moving more highly contaminated water out of a crippled nuclear reactor.

Japan's neighbors sounded increasingly alarmed over the risk of radiation from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant, while figures showed the number of foreign visitors to the country had slumpe ...

Japanese engineers put dye into radioactive water to check if they had managed to stop a leak from one reactor at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant.

Plutonium found in soil at the crippled Fukushima nuclear complex heightened alarm on Tuesday over Japan's protracted battle to contain the world's worst atomic crisis in 25 years.

Bangladesh has sent medicines and other essential goods for Japan's tremor and tsunami victims.

Highly radioactive water has leaked from a reactor at Japan's crippled nuclear complex, the plant's operator said on Monday, while environmental group Greenpeace said it had detected high levels of ra ...