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Rich countries must live up to pledge to help developing world on climate change
United Nations officials have called on industrialised countries to live up to their multi-billion dollar pledges to help the developing world adapt to climate change at a week-long meeting of several hundred African exp...
New species of fish discovered in ocean's deepest depths
A new species has been discovered in a part of the ocean previously thought to be entirely free of fish, scientists said.
Four capital cities sign up to 10:10
Amsterdam, Zagreb, Paris and Mexico City become the first cities to pledge to cut their carbon emissions by 10% in the next year
Whale's swim the longest
A humpback whale has travelled the longest distance recorded for any mammal, swimming across nearly a quarter of the globe between two breeding grounds.
Camera catches bulldozer destroying Sumatra tiger forest
A video camera trap installed by WWF and partners has captured footage linking the destruction of a crucial Sumatran tiger forest to the expansion of palm oil plantations in Indonesia's Riau Province.
La Ni�a weather, with possible floods and droughts, likely to last for months
The La Ni�a weather pattern is likely to continue and may strengthen over the next four to six months, potentially bringing abnormal conditions to widely separate areas of the world, from floods to droughts to below or a...
UN–backed gathering aims to identify climate change adaptation actions
Hundreds of people gathered at a United Nations-backed meeting in Addis Ababa to identify actions that will promote sustainable development in Africa in the face of climate change.
Carbon trading likely to develop regionally
Huge investments in green technology in Asia and steps toward domestic emissions trading are opening up the prospect of regional carbon trading, climate change experts in Asia have said.
Wind could provide 20 pct of world power by 2030: study
Wind power could meet about a fifth of the world's electricity demand within 20 years, an industry group and environmental watchdog Greenpeace predicted in a new report.
Google invests in $5bn wind–power superhighway
Google is extending its investment in green technology with a $5bn (�3.2bn) programme to build an undersea, wind energy transmission backbone along 350 miles of the Atlantic seaboard.