26/4/2006

Transneft, Russia's state-owned oil pipeline operator, said Wednesday that the length and costs of a new route for a pipeline to pump Siberian crude to the Pacific could be estimated within two months. The announcement came ...   

26/4/2006

If Latin America's economic ties with China do not undergo a structural change, the region will be unable to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), an Argentine expert said during the Latin Economic Forum held recently at United ...   

26/4/2006

The Conservative government could join the U.S.-led "Kyoto-lite" approach to cutting global warming. Under opposition fire for failing to make climate change a top priority, Environment Minister Rona Ambrose insisted ...   

25/4/2006

Britain is a long way from meeting some key targets on plant conservation. That is the warning from nature groups on the eve of a summit at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew on Wednesday. They say Britain is only a third ...   

25/4/2006

 federal judge struck down regulations that limited the public's ability to challenge U.S. Forest Service decisions on timber sales and other projects. The judge issued an injunction Monday against a2 rule that required people to ...   

25/4/2006

The gap between the rich North and the impoverished developing South is reproduced in the Argentine capital. Far away from the well-heeled northern districts, the people living on the south side of Buenos Aires are "on the verge of ...   

25/4/2006

Canada's new Conservative government, which is openly skeptical about the Kyoto climate change protocol, said Tuesday it backs a breakaway group of six nations that favor a voluntary approach to cutting emissions of greenhouse ...   

25/4/2006

A devastating fungus is sweeping the world, wiping out entire populations of amphibians at such a rate that biologists are helping pull together a massive "Noah's Ark" project to capture frogs, toads and salamanders and put them in safe ...   

25/4/2006

Two rare salamanders that live in rocky patches within old growth forests along the Klamath River don't need Endangered Species Act protection because existing state and federal protections are adequate to maintain their habitat, the ...   

25/4/2006

The Eastern phoebe was one of the first songbirds to arrive this spring in the Sourland Mountains, a 90-square-mile swath of central New Jersey known among naturalists as an oasis for birds on their way north for the spring. The ...   

25/4/2006

The world prepared to mark with vigils and protests the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, the devastating nuclear accident that ravaged this corner of eastern Europe, shocked the planet and continues to affect millions of ...   

25/4/2006

An invasive weed that has spread across much of the U.S. harms native maples, ashes, and other hardwood trees by releasing chemicals harmful to a soil fungus the trees depend on for growth and survival, scientists report this week in the ...   

25/4/2006

Have high utility bills have been busting your monthly budget? Now, heating your water and heating and cooling your home are more affordable, thanks to a recently enacted energy bill. The Energy Policy Act of 2005 offers ...   

25/4/2006

For decades, environmentalists have warned of a coming climate crisis. Their alarms went unheeded, and last year we reaped an early harvest: a singularly ferocious hurricane season, record snowfall in New England, the worst-ever ...   

25/4/2006

At first glance, an outbreak of diarrhea among passengers on board a cruise ship in Alaskan waters in the summer of 2004 seemed to be relatively harmless. Health officials theorized it might be the Norwalk virus, a bug that often ...   

25/4/2006

The World Bank has unveiled a project to promote the use of clean energy in developing countries, where it said US$10 billion (HK$78 billion) to US$40 billion a year will be needed to cover the costs of adapting to projected climate ...   

25/4/2006

A group of Aboriginal people has been recognised as traditional owners of a large parcel of far north Queensland land after a seven-year fight. The Federal Court of Australia recognised the claim lodged by the Mandingalbay ...   

25/4/2006

Spring is being keenly awaited on Sakhalin in Russia's far east after another long winter. But when it finally comes in June it offers little prospect of a thaw in relations between environmentalists and Shell. With the melting ...   

25/4/2006

A leading U.S. government storm researcher said on Monday that the record hurricane season last year can be attributed to global warming. "The hurricanes we are seeing are indeed a direct result of climate change and it's no longer ...   

25/4/2006

The government has promised to take tough action against recalcitrant timber companies operating in Papua. Two Cabinet ministers, tasked with safeguarding the country's environment, said they would seriously follow up reports by ...   

25/4/2006

The nuclear industry has hired Christie Whitman, the former administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, and Patrick Moore, a co-founder of Greenpeace, the environmental organization, to lead a public relations campaign for new ...   

25/4/2006

A Mennonite farmer watches a black plume of smoke spew from an oil well near his house in western Belize, the only visible sign that this tiny Central American nation is the world's newest oil producer. Wildcat oil companies ...   

25/4/2006

Despite ominous storm clouds on the horizon, Bill McKibben's forecast for the future is surprisingly optimistic. Although global warming may lead to severe hurricanes, glacial melting and catastrophic climate changes within the ...   

25/4/2006

Environment Minister Rona Ambrose says Canada is considering joining a U.S.-led effort to curb greenhouse emissions outside the framework of the Kyoto Protocol. The Asia-Pacific Partnership is a loose agreement involving the ...   

25/4/2006

Adrian Baltanas's job is to find 850 cubic hectometers of clean water -- enough to fill a gigantic cube with sides measuring 85 km (50 miles) -- and he has four years to do it. As director general of Acuamed, a state company set ...