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The US is to establish "the largest area of protected sea in the world", banning fishing and mining, around its Pacific islands.

RAINS received to date in the 2008/2009 farming season are adequate to ensure a successful season, an official said recently.

Seventeen previously unknown species of reptiles and amphibians have been found in the threatened rainforests of eastern Tanzania, Italian and Tanzanian scientists reported on Monday.

LONDON (Reuters) - Seventeen previously unknown species of reptiles and amphibians have been found in the threatened rainforests of eastern Tanzania, Italian and Tanzanian scientists reported on Monday.

Pupils turn up for classes at Anglesey's first specially-designed 'environmentally friendly' school.

Governments could slow global warming dramatically, and buy time to avert disastrous climate change, by slashing emissions of one of humanity's most familiar pollutants soot according to NASA scientists. A study by the space agency shows that cutting down on the pollutant can have an immediate cooling effect and prevent hundreds of thousands of deaths from air pollution at the same time.

President Bush will create three new marine national monuments in the Pacific Ocean Tuesday, according to White House spokeswoman Dana Perino, designated areas that will span 195,280 square miles and protect some of the most ecologically-rich areas of the world's oceans.

The election of Barack Obama promises a new era of eco-awareness in the US, says Sarah Wachter These are heady times for environmentalists in America. The initial euphoria of Barack Obama’s White House win hasn’t worn off yet. They say he is the American president with the most clearly-enunciated environmental platform of any in recent memory. Even though the financial crisis has taken centre ...

President George W. Bush on Tuesday will designate three remote Pacific island chains as national monuments that together will make up the largest marine conservation area in history.

SYDNEY: Ocean acidification and rising temperatures are gradually killing off the biggest and most robust corals on the Great Barrier Reef since 1990, the "tipping point" year, says a new study.

President-elect Barack Obama declared the national economy was "bad and getting worse" Monday as he began crisis talks with congressional leaders on emergency action. He predicted lawmakers would approve hundreds of billions of dollars in new spending and tax...

NEW South Wales braces for a 41C scorcher as floods cut off parts of Queensland and the Northern Territory.

The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority wants scientists to learn as much they can from coral bleaching in 2009.

"PLEASE erase your image of electric cars being like golf carts," a spokesman for Japan's fourth-biggest car maker said before taking a zero emission vehicle out for a spin.

Distributed energy generation, hailed by most environmentalists as the future of sustainable electricity production, is about powering a country with hundreds, potentially thousands, of renewable and clean energy systems with some help from natural gas.

The re-licensing of Vermont Yankee nuclear plant and a looming debate over whether Vermont should legalize gay marriage were expected to be the dominant issues of the Legislature's upoming session.

LONDON: Nasa scientists have said that global warming can be slowed dramatically by slashing emissions of one of humanity's most familiar pollutants - soot.

AUCKLAND, NZ -- Air New Zealand has completed a test flight partially using jatropha-based fuel, another experiment on the path to cleaning up the emissions and impact of flying.

An analyst says a Sempra Generation project powering California homes beats conventional sources on cost-effectiveness. Generating clean electricity that's as cheap as power from fossil fuels is the Holy Grail of green-energy companies. A new solar project powering California homes appears to be closing in on that prize.

A surge in investment in the renewable energy sector is expected to help Scotland through the economic difficulties expected in 2009, according to the Scottish Government.