An appeal court in Ecuador ruled that the US oil company Chevron should pay 18 billion dollars in damages after being accused of polluting the Amazon

The EU has agreed tougher rules on the disposal of nuclear waste. The new pan-European plan will mean radioactive rubbish from the 27 member state

The Fukushima disaster in Japan in March threw the spotlight on Europe’s nuclear power plants. While the EU Commission and the bloc’s 27 member

Thousands of people in China live from recycling e-waste – a highly toxic and dangerous activity. Most of the electronic waste comes from the West

Anti-nuclear activists have continued to block a convoy of reprocessed atomic waste from reaching a storage depot near the German town of

Protesters clashed with German police on Sunday as they tried to block a train carrying nuclear waste from France. Officers used pepper spray and

A red desert landscape has enveloped entire villages in Hungary, in the wake of the toxic sludge disaster. The people living along the Danube River

The boss of the Hungarian aluminium firm linked to last week’s massive spill of toxic sludge has been arrested.    Zoltan Bakonyi, head of

Amid threats of another wave of red toxic sludge in Hungary, workers are racing to build make-shift emergency dams. Cracks have widened in the

Toxic sludge coats a damaged bridge as workers continued to clear the polluted ground

A village near the site of the toxic sludge spill in Hungary has been evacuated amid fears of a second wave of poisonous flooding. Around 800

New pictures from Hungary show the broken wall of a reservoir after it burst, spilling a torrent of toxic sludge from an alumina plant. The

The catastrophic effects of the toxic spill in the Danube’s tributaries have not been carried downstream to the great river itself, easing many

Serbian and Croatian authorities stepped up testing in the Danube on Friday amid fears the Hungarian toxic spill is spreading.   Officials say there

Hungary has officially asked the European Union for help as it takles what its president has described as an “ecological tragedy”. All life in the

The Hungarian prime minister has described the accident as an “unprecedented environmental catastrophe” in the country. The government is trying

As the clean up continues in Hungary – toxic red sludge from an aluminium plant spill has now reached the River Danube. Disaster crews are also

Three days after red toxic sludge spilled from an aluminium plant, Hungary is counting the environmental and human cost of the disaster. At least