The UN General Assembly has decisively backed a resolution effectively calling on the US to withdraw its recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

On Tuesday, China announced further details of its forthcoming national emissions trading scheme (ETS), revealing the rollout will start in the energy sector before full implementation from 2020 onwards.

Ithaca College President Shirley M. Collado is a founding member of a new group of higher education leaders dedicated to improving how colleges and universities address immigration-related matters affecting their campuses.

For academics, the festive season has long presented an opportunity for some more light-hearted research into a variety of topics.

Humanoid robot completes course in philosophy of love in what is purportedly a world first.

Compared with the planet's other large tracts of tropical forests, the forests in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have remained relatively intact — although that soon may be changing.

College enrollments in the U.S. decline for a sixth straight year -- although at a slower rate -- while the bachelor's degree got more popular.

Cambridge startup is taking college guidance online, offering high school students and their parents a cheaper alternative to private college counseling.

A loophole in carbon-accounting rules is spurring a boom in burning wood pellets in European power plants.

Interventions such as women-only fellowships have improved gender balance – but some professoriates are still more than 85 per cent male