If the annoying sound of a leaf blower isn’t enough to put you off this gardening tool, maybe the choking pollution is. In one year, the average blower used by a professional gardener emits as much smog-forming pollution as 80 new cars, each driven 12,500 miles.
That startling figure comes from California’s South Coast Air Quality [...]

Prince Charles says his household emitted 3,425 tonnes of greenhouse gases last year. That must make him one of the biggest emitters in the world, even though he is cutting back with measures like running his Jaguar on fuel made from cooking oil.
Obviously his ”household” extends well beyond a wife and two children — his accounts released on Tuesday say it covers his London [...]

The U.S. South doesn’t get many accolades for its work on the environment, but the city of Fayetteville, Arkansas, collected a top climate prize this weekend from U.S. mayors eager to cut greenhouse gas emissions while Washington dithers. Fayetteville has built 129 miles of multi-use trails for a population of just 65,000 — prompting residents [...]

I wonder how many people are cleaning their shoes with bananas to help save the planet?
The idea of peels for shoes was recently voted top tip in a survey of ideas for helping protect the environment sent out every day by green group Friends of the Earth.
Among many websites I subscribe to, Friends of the Earth’s daily [...]

Posted by Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent
Sometimes you cant make it up any weirder than it actually is. That definitely was the case on June 14, when a pair of environmental pranksters managed to promote themselves as keynote speakers at the Gas and Oil Exposition aka GO-EXPO 2007 in Calgary.
Masquerading as officials from ExxonMobil and [...]

 My wife, relatives and friends are getting worried about me.
 They think I’m turning into a green zealot and I’m beginning to think they may have a point. Not that I’ve especially worried about the environment for most of my life or really thought much of green ways of life like separating the trash. I never go into [...]

  Here’s a wildlife quiz — what are these footprints all over the posters advertising a U.N. wildlife conference in the Hague?
Along with many delegates, I have been puzzling over some of them for days. Is the one at the top the print of a yeti or an abominable snowman that some people say you risk running into high in [...]

Many people get worried when talk turns to elephant ivory at U.N. wildlife trade talks in The Hague. They know the issue is too big to be hidden in a corner.
“I have approached this moment with trepidation for months,” Greg Leach, chairing a meeting of the U.N. Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, said to delegates from 171 nations when he [...]

Elephants have a lot of friends at a U.N. meeting on international trade in endangered species in the Hague this week — but why are those arguing the merits of the ivory trade so silent?
The first display that met me walking to the meeting hall today was a life-sized elephant sculpture on the forecourt outside, [...]

G8 leaders lunched on Friday on a menu of reheated waffle and fudge, at least according to a spoof menu that poked fun at what campaigners believe was an inadequate response to global challenges.
“I thought we’d liven the place up,” said John Coventry, of Action Aid UK, who posted alternative menus around a media centre where journalists are treated to [...]

 Filed by Erik Kirschbaum
   You know you’re at a special kind of demonstration when the protesters clean up after themselves — and the police trying to contain them leave behind a mess.
     I’ve spent most of the last three days following the anti-G8 demonstrators who’ve come from around the world to try to disrupt the Heiligendamm G8 [...]

Posted by Erik Kirschbaum
    The German chancellor told journalists on Thursday she hoped the Greenpeace activists in rubber boats didn’t cause too much climate-changing emissions with their foiled attempt to deliver a message to the summit warning about the perils of global warming.
    “I hope they won’t emit too much CO2 with their boat trips [...]

The speedboats limped past the media centre at the G8 summit under German police escort after a chase worthy of a James Bond movie.
I sat on the wide balcony of the centre at the G8 summit, with a glorious view over the Baltic Sea on a bright sunny day, as the Greenpeace inflatables were accompanied [...]

Hapless tourists trying to enjoy the countryside around the German resort of Heiligendamm on the Baltic Sea have been caught up in the security net of the G8 summit.
Police sealed off tracts of the region to protect world leaders staying at a luxury hotel. About 10,000 protesters clashed with police on Wednesday, injuring 8 officers and shut off a rail line and [...]

Dr. Koni Steffen is the director of University of Colorado at Boulders Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and a veteran researcher of Arctic climate. The following are excerpts from a Reuters interview with Dr. Steffen at his research camp in Greenland in which he discusses the accelerating melting of Greenlands ice cap and [...]