Wracked by debt but blessed with abundant sunshine, Greece plans to develop some 20,000 hectares of solar power parks in a bid to export renewable energy to Germany, a report said on Saturday.

Tokyo Electric Power Co said Sunday that it aims to bring the damaged reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant to a stable condition known as a ‘‘cold shutdown’’ in about six to nine months, while restoring stable cooling to the reactors and spent fuel pools in about three months.

Do we collectively care about our planet, our home, this Earth, or don't we? When the economic bottom line rules decision-making, losses elsewhere can be staggering.

Radiation at a hobbled nuclear plant in Japan was 10 million times more than normal, officials said.Workers were evacuated on Sunday from the reactor building in Fukushima to prevent exposure, the plant's operator said.

Engineers report rare success after fire trucks spray water on stricken nuclear reactor at quake-hit Fukushima plant.

Japanese Government Confirms Meltdown.Japan’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) said March 12 that the explosion at the Fukushima Daiichi No. 1 nuclear plant could only have been caused by a meltdown of the reactor core, Japanese daily Nikkei reported

An explosion occurred March 12 at the Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s (TEPCO) Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Japan, Japanese news agency Jiji reported, citing local police.

The European Union decided to ban the import of carbon credits linked to certain industrial gases as of May 2013, delaying by four months the starting date for the curbs in the world’s largest greenhouse-gas market.

In most EU countries, the highest share of environmental tax revenue comes from households, with Denmark at the top of the rankings.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has agreed to give BP more time to clean up after the oil spill in Hammond. For the first time, the agency also called the spill a threat to human health and the environment.