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European plants and animals threatened by climate change
Prior to the start of the EU's Green Week on Biodiversity, the UK's Department for the Environment has published a critical report demonstrating that Europe needs a more integrated approach to conservation.
Can you buy a new car and help the environment?
Following recent government reports that the UK is falling behind on its targets to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 20% by 2010, the new car reverse auction website AutoeBid.com has launched a solution to equip motori...
EU seeks clear responsibilities in halting biodiversity loss
A new EU Action Plan seeks to clarify responsibilities between the EU and member states on bringing plant and animal extinction to a halt by 2010. But environmentalists say the measures are weak and may just come too lat...
Attenborough: Climate change is the major challenge facing the world
David Attenborough writes in The Independent: I was sceptical about climate change. I was cautious about crying wolf. I am always cautious about crying wolf. I think conservationists have to be careful in saying things a...
Annan Calls for Action
With some 2,300 species endangered or facing extinction, significant losses in agricultural output, and an economic cost estimated at more than $42 billion a year, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan marked the I...
NZ to Spend on Environmental Clean Up
The government has announced it will set aside $20.5 million in the budget to clean up contaminated sites and fund new research into enhancing the environment. The package provides $16 million over the next four years to...
Ministers order green revamp of developers' planned new town
Ministers are planning the first eco-friendly town built from scratch and a string of low-carbon "green villages" to try to prove that big housing developments across southern England can be self-sufficient. The minister...
Environment Messages On Show at World Cup
It's a tale of two goals � soccer goals on the field and United Nations social and humanitarian goals around the world, and how the two can meet.
Poor Hit Hardest by Climate Change
Changes in weather patterns and extreme weather events due to climate change will have the greatest impact on the world's poorest people, the head of the of the leading scientific panel on the issue told the United Natio...
UK renewables database set for launch on web
Consultants have been commissioned to build a database on every renewable energy project in the planning system in the UK. Entec has been asked by the Department of Trade and Industry's (DTI) energy group to produce the ...