12/5/2008

The 300 Kihansi spray toads residing in a small room at the Bronx Zoo chirp cheerily as they bask in a light sprinkling of water 14 times a day. Until a few years ago, the tiny, mustard-colored toads existed only in a river gorge in ...   

12/5/2008

Ice sheets in the Arctic Ocean could shrink this summer to the smallest area on record since satellite observation of the sheets began in 1978, according to researchers. Researchers at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency made ...   

12/5/2008

News flash: Terrorists sink an oil tanker, blocking the vital Bosporus Strait. Oil rockets to $160 a barrel and gasoline to $5 a gallon in the United States. What can keep the globe's biggest oil-guzzling economy from running ...   

12/5/2008

Driving less? More than two-thirds of car owners already are. It's a natural reflex to $50-$70 tank fill-ups. But US drivers may also know it's time to pay a price to curb global warming. That may be one reason they reject the campaign ...   

12/5/2008

In its measures against global warming, which are expected to be unveiled in June, the government may call for a 60-percent to 80-percent cut in domestic greenhouse gas emissions from current levels by 2050, The Yomiuri Shimbun learned ...   

12/5/2008

SOONER or later, some anti-privatisation activist will start doing background checks on China Huaneng Group, which is at the front of the queue to bid for $15 billion in NSW power assets. They'll see that Sydney might soon be powered by ...   

12/5/2008

LAST month, a group of 25 environmental activists staged an impromptu demonstration outside the Sydney offices of yet another global organisation. But this time it wasn't a multinational mining or oil company that was the target, but ...   

12/5/2008

The New South Wales Opposition's spokeswoman for environment and climate change and the Member for Goulburn, Pru Goward, says the Federal Government needs to implement a planned strategy to deal with the effects of climate change, ...   

12/5/2008

THE Federal Government's climate change policy will have a much bigger initial impact on agriculture than climate change itself. That was a key message delivered to a farming and climate change conference by Mick Keogh, executive ...   

11/5/2008

Even for Americans -- who are constitutionally convinced that there will always be a second act, and a third, and a do-over after that, and, if necessary, a little public repentance and forgiveness and a Brand New Start -- even for us, ...   

11/5/2008

Japan aims to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by between 60 and 80 percent by 2050, news reports said on Sunday, as part of measures setting out the country's long term environmental goals. Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda is ...   

11/5/2008

It's a quiet afternoon in the Georgetown-Rowley State Forest, and that's not a bad thing. It has been a little more than a year since state officials banned the use of all-terrain vehicles and dirt bikes. "Without them on the trails, it's ...   

11/5/2008

Is this a price blip? No. A food shortage? Not that either. Farmers across the world produced a record 2.3 billion tonnes of grain in 2007, up 4% on the previous year. Since 1961, the world’s cereal output has tripled, while the ...   

11/5/2008

It's a classic stand-off between one of the world's best loved animals and one of its most unpopular leaders, between the planet's largest bear and its most powerful man. And it comes to a head this week. On Thursday, by order of ...   

11/5/2008

It is early morning in Barcelona's La Boqueria market and the fish stallholders are setting out their wares. Mounds of pink and grey glisten down the dim alleys - shoppers and tourists peering at the fins and tentacles. It is not like ...   

11/5/2008

With summer heat around the corner, some consumers came to the South Florida Ideas Exchange on Saturday looking for simple ways to save energy and save money on their home electric bills. It's easier than you think, some expert ...   

11/5/2008

With millions of trees ravaged by bark beetles, Colorado is bracing for what could be a nasty wildfire season this year even as federal officials say they’re ready. Gov. Bill Ritter met with state and federal officials at the ...   

11/5/2008

Japan's Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda will set a goal of cutting the country's greenhouse gas emissions as much as 80 percent by 2050, Nikkei reported, without saying where it got the information from. The announcement may come as ...   

11/5/2008

In the summer of 1996, biologist Frank Miller was flying along the coast of Bathurst Island searching for Peary caribou, found only in the High Arctic of Canada, when he spied a dark spot on the sea ice. Flying in for a ...   

11/5/2008

Russia may decide to hold onto its greenhouse gas emissions rights under the Kyoto Protocol, at least until the details of a successor treaty are clearer, a Russian expert said. The United Nations' Kyoto Protocol allows ...   

11/5/2008

Just after dawn, as the fog slowly leaves the slopes of the Muhabura volcano, some Batwa people make their way to the neighbouring farms hoping to get a job for the day. The Nyarusisa community is landless. Families are ...   

11/5/2008

Japan, the world's fifth biggest polluter, will announce a target next month for cutting domestic greenhouse gas emissions by 60-80 percent from current levels by 2050, media reported on Sunday. The target, more ambitious than ...   

11/5/2008

There will be no more clearing of mangrove swamps in Sabah for development. State Tourism, Culture and Environment Minister Datuk Masidi Manjun said: "Mangrove swamps have been cleared for large-scale development projects. No ...   

11/5/2008

THOUSANDS of red gums on the brink of death have been saved — temporarily at least — after 17 billion litres of water were released from dams to boost Victoria's ailing Murray wetlands. The water sparked an immediate response ...   

11/5/2008

As Norway prepares for a future after oil, the gale-force potential of harvesting wind power off its long coastline has become an increasingly attractive proposition. "Wind-mapping shows that ... Norway is among the ...