NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AFP) - With BP's leaking well in the Gulf of Mexico finally capped, the focus shifts to the surface clean-up and the question on everyone's lips is: where is all the oil?
BEIJING (AFP) - China's air pollution increased this year for the first time since 2005, the environmental protection ministry has said, due to sandstorms, a rise in construction and industrial projects, and more cars.
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AFP) - Louisiana's fragile marshes should recover from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill in a matter of months and the environmental impact will be "quite small," a leading expert said.
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States said Monday it will work with Canada in the next few weeks to delineate the outer limits of the Arctic's continental shelf, a region believed to contain vast oil and gas reserves.
PARIS (AFP) - The world's biggest atom smasher has scaled up in power even faster than hoped for and may soon unlock some of the universe's deepest secrets, scientists said Monday at a top physics conference.
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Global warming could drive millions more Mexicans into the United States in search of work by 2080 due to diminishing crop yields in Mexico, a study released Monday showed.
MOSCOW (AFP) - Inhabitants of Moscow gasped in a sizzling heatwave Monday as the Russian capital saw its highest recorded temperature ever and was blanketed in a heavy cloud of smog from forest and peat fires.
SHANGHAI (AFP) - China's Zijin Mining Group offered cash to journalists covering a toxic spill at a mine it operates in the southeast, state media said Monday, in an apparent bid to gain favourable coverage.
TOKYO (AFP) - Japanese people are living longer than ever, with the average life expectancy now a world-record 86.44 years for women and 79.59 years for men, the health and welfare ministry said Monday.
MARSEILLE, France (AFP) - An explosion in costs has cast a cloud over a multi-billion-dollar nuclear fusion project aiming to make the power that fuels the Sun a practical energy source on Earth.
