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Australian Farmers Committing to Carbon Reductions
Farmers and other country groups are uniting in a new alliance to fight climate change. The Agricultural Alliance includes the South Australian Farmers Federation, Agforce from Queensland, and the Country Women's Associa...
British Government accused of 'environment deceit'
Gordon Brown has been accused of presiding over an environmental policy based on "propaganda and deceit" after a leaked document suggested vital 'green' energy targets will not be met.
Climate Impacts on Ecological Systems
Climate change complicates everything. In addition to the much-talked about sea-level rise and its possible consequences, climate change has been implicated in the recent emergence of several infectious diseases.
Buoy Power off Oregon Coast
The first test buoys designed to convert ocean waves to electricity will be deployed a few miles off the Oregon Coast within a few weeks.
Clean Water Warning from UN
Water will become the dominant global issue this century, and the availability of its supply could threaten the world's social stability, the head of the United Nations agency tasked with promoting socially and environme...
Extreme weather the norm across globe
The world this year has �suffered record-breaking weather extremes in almost every continent, the United Nation's World Meteorological Organisation has warned, with global land temperatures reaching their highest levels ...
Extinct: the dolphin that could not live alongside man
The Yangtze river dolphin is today declared extinct. It is the first large animal to be wiped from the planet for 50 years, and only the fourth entire mammal family to disappear in 500 years. And it was driven to its dea...
Spain to Allow Offshore Wind Farms
Spain -- the world's second leading producer of wind power -- has passed a new law allowing wind parks to be built off its coast. It is predicted that the offshore wind parks will generate between 2,000 and 3,000 megawat...
Global Land Temperatures Highest on Record say UN
Global land surface temperatures for January and April will likely be ranked as the warmest since records began in 1880, the United Nations World Meteorological Organization (WMO) reported today, adding that it is work...
Investment in renewables surges to meet demand for alternative energy
Total global investment in renewable energy is likely to increase more than sevenfold in the next decade to reach �375bn, research out today suggests.