26/4/2006

Antoinette Campbell was justifiably shocked when city workers mistakenly chainsawed a 60-foot oak tree last May that shaded the eastern facade of her Washington, D.C., home. "It was a personal something I had with that ...   

26/4/2006

Britain is failing to meet its stated objectives designed to protect the nation's most endangered wild plants from going extinct, according to a group of leading botanists. In four years' time, Britain is supposed to have met 16 ...   

26/4/2006

Scientists have recently identified two new species of frogs in the Lao People's Democratic Republic. The announcement comes on the heels of several recent discoveries that have showcased this Southeast Asian country as a ...   

26/4/2006

Twenty years ago today, reactor number four at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded. The blast covered vast areas of Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia (see map) with dangerous radioactive material. The effects of the Chernobyl ...   

26/4/2006

Environmental groups asked a federal judge Wednesday to stop the Forest Service from beginning a Montana forest-thinning project under a wildfire prevention law, contending it amounts to industrial logging. The project the ...   

26/4/2006

Ontario is on the losing end of an "unacceptable'' new U.S.-Canada softwood lumber agreement that will curb its exports below historic levels and kill more jobs in the province's north, Ontario's minister of natural resources said ...   

26/4/2006

Questions about new state water quality guidelines that for the first time require agricultural landowners to test runoff from their irrigated properties drew nearly 100 farmers, ranchers and other growers to a meeting in Oxnard on ...   

26/4/2006

At a conference called to mark the 20th anniversary of the explosion and nuclear meltdown that destroyed Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear power plant, President Victor Yushchenko called for an international donor conference to help his ...   

26/4/2006

Hungry corals have an unexpected trick up their sleeve that could help reefs to escape destruction at the hands of warming seas. Marine biologists have discovered that some corals can weather 'mass bleaching' events by gorging on marine ...   

26/4/2006

The UK government has been too slow in formulating plans to combat a potentially lethal flu pandemic, a leading expert has warned. Professor Neil Ferguson, of Imperial College London, said there were no clear plans for ensuring ...   

26/4/2006

Hoping to end Colorado's in-state battles over scarce water, a House committee has approved an unprecedented charter for compacts between users in different river basins meant to bring together groups ranging from fishermen to farmers. ...   

26/4/2006

A project to restore water flows for marshes and prairies in Everglades National Park has mushroomed in cost and suffered delays because of government indecision and inability to communicate, a new federal audit has concluded. ...   

26/4/2006

California's Republican governor and top Democratic lawmakers are talking tough, prompt action to battle climate change, yet unlike its pioneering restrictions on air pollutants, the state is taking more measured steps in regulating ...   

26/4/2006

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered analysis of a possibility of moving the route of the Eastern pipeline more than 40 kilometres north of Lake Baikal, beyond the boundaries of a water pumping area. Putin also has ...   

26/4/2006

The first of five brown bears to be released in the French Pyrenees was finally given its freedom late Tuesday, after protestors clashed with police in a bid to stop the operation. The female bear, which had been captured in ...   

26/4/2006

AUSTRALIA could reduce its emissions of planet-warming greenhouse gases up to 20 per cent by taking steps as cheap and easy as installing double-paned windows and energy efficient light bulbs. That's the message from new Adelaide ...   

26/4/2006

To tolling bells and a military-gun salute, survivors of the Chernobyl disaster joined in a somber remembrance of the world's worst nuclear accident 20 years ago. Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko led hundreds of the nuclear ...   

26/4/2006

Fourteen people in Tarlac and Bulacan have been convicted of illegal logging and have received prison terms, a report from the Department of Environment and Natural Resources said on Tuesday. Regidor de Leon, DENR executive ...   

26/4/2006

The Forest Service talks about forest health and uses terms such as "treatment" in describing its plan for part of the Montana valley where 356,000 acres and 70 homes burned in 2000, but a lawsuit contends the work amounts to ...   

26/4/2006

Bats have been getting a bad rap. Last autumn, a team of scientists tied bats to the deadly SARS outbreaks. Bats in China, they said, are likely where the virus hides between human outbreaks. Then, in December, another group of ...   

26/4/2006

The government wants its food industry to cut carbon emissions by 20 percent by 2010 compared to 1990 levels, it said on Wednesday. The target for the sector, which accounts for some 14 percent of industrial energy consumption, ...   

26/4/2006

World Earth Day is a good time for politicians to bang a green drum. Gordon Brown did just that in his speech to the United Nations. He argued that the world has a "moral duty" to combat climate change, and that such a duty ...   

26/4/2006

Ford says it will give consumers concerned about harmful greenhouse emissions an opportunity to invest in clean energy projects via a new website that will calculate suggested investments based on the amount of carbon dioxide produced ...   

26/4/2006

Anyone waiting for Cape Wind to come into the discussion didn't have to wait long. A new documentary on global warming, "An Inconvenient Truth," was shown in Boston for the first time last night before an audience of ...   

26/4/2006

If Iran succeeds in building nuclear weapons, it will be paid for in part by American drivers. With oil prices and global oil consumption at near-record levels, the radical Islamist government in Iran is raking in more than $68.4 ...