OTTAWA (Reuters) - The Canadian province of Ontario won't approve any proposed off-shore wind power projects until there is further scientific research on their impact on the environment.

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada will ask the World Trade Organization to set up a formal dispute resolution panel to address the European Union's ban on trade in seal products, Fisheries Minister Gail Shea said on Friday.

WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) - The administrator of BP Plc's $20 billion fund to compensate victims of the Gulf oil spill is not independent and the oil company must refrain from calling him "neutral," a federal judge ruled on Wednesday.

WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - The western Canadian province of Manitoba, a key producer of wheat and canola, will see major spring flooding if weather conditions continue as expected, the provincial government said on Monday.

CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia's government is reportedly considering a taxpayer levy to help pay for massive flood rebuilding, while preserving the budget's path back to surplus in 2012-13, as one major bank warned on Tuesday the damage bill could rea...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Visibility in Hong Kong has deteriorated so sharply over the last 50 years because of air pollution that variations in levels can even be used to predict mortality rates, health experts warned Wednesday.

OSLO (Reuters) - Shrinking ice and snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere is reflecting ever less sunshine back into space in a previously underestimated mechanism that could add to global warming, a study showed.