Humanity is currently on course to double or even triple the carbon dioxide content of the Earth’s atmosphere by the end of this century.

Government says it will ‘respect public opinion’ and scrap the proposed uranium-enrichment facility

Masao Yoshida, who led the life-risking battle at Japan's crippled nuclear power plant when it was spiralling into meltdown following the 2011 tsunami, died yesterday of cancer of the oesophagus at the age of 58. Officials at the Tokyo Electric Power Company said his illness was unrelated to radioactive exposure.

Yoshida was widely praised for staying in post and limiting the impact of the nuclear disaster

Interim president to be new PM but Muslim opposition puts appointment in doubt

Local mayors furious at application to restart reactors two years after Fukushima disaster

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's "shock and awe" tactics to revive the world's third biggest economy paid off in May with the biggest rise in exports since 2010.

Nuclear power plants plan to reopen by the end of year

The Independent on Sunday: Tougher punishments expected for bankers

More people back subsidies for new nuclear power plants in the UK than are opposed to them, a poll has revealed.

At least 30 people were killed and 800 injured today when a 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck near Iran’s only nuclear power plant.

A day after talks between international powers and Iran ended without agreement on Tehran’s nuclear ambitions, a leading Israeli politician has warned that the Jewish state’s patience is running thin and that the West should impose a deadline of weeks to persuade Iran to abandon its nuclear enrichment programme, or face military action.

The cooling system for a storage pool for fuel at one of the reactors at the tsunami-damaged Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan failed today for the second time in a month, although there was no immediate danger from the breakdown.