Formula One and those fighting climate change might seem like strange bedfellows. But there are green winds of change blowing through the world’s most popular motor sports and — believe it or not — a growing number of bosses among the 11 Formula One teams want to turn the sport with its gas-guzzling image into [...]

As Britain battles to hold back the worst floods for 60 years, bloggers and journalists have been debating the cause. The daily green linked the floods to more intense rainfalls and stopped short of blaming climate change. Michael McCarthy, environment editor of The Independent, said no-one can yet attribute the floods directly to [...]

Who wants to offset their flight? Or, for that matter, say they plan to go carbon neutral, joining the likes of Costa Rica, Norway, Google and Yahoo?
Voluntary carbon offsetting involves paying someone to cut their emissions of greenhouse gases, so that you can go ahead and take that flight, car journey or whatever, but not [...]

Since May 7, 40-year-old Margo Pellegrino has paddled her 20-ft outrigger canoe from Miami up the East Coast, dodging speedboats and ferries, navigating arm-wrenching tidal currents, ducking storms while marveling at manatees, sharks and other sea life. In a few days, she’ll reach her destination — Camden, Maine, about 2,000 miles from where she began.
She [...]

Government plans to tackle the country’s growing household waste problem are a bit of a rubbish idea, according to a committee of MPs.
Ministers trying to find ways to encourage people to throw away less and recycle more to help reduce the amount of
household waste thrown away every week. Click here to read the story.
The Local [...]

Ann Arendarczyk scans the beach for the tell-tale signs that a Kemps ridley turtle has emerged from the water to lay its eggs in the soft sand.
It looks like someone has dragged a cooler box or a chair through the sand, she told me as she walked along the beach of South Padre Island on [...]

At this year’s Taste of Chicago, billed as the world’s largest food festival, people weren’t the only ones digesting. Steps from the stands operated by city restaurants serving up delights like crawfish boils and turtle soup, red wigglers slithered in bins filled with rotting lettuce and carrot peels.
Volunteers from the University of Illinois brought the [...]

As a generally cynical person who earns a good living by looking for dark linings in clouds, for glasses that are only half-empty and for the bad in people rather than anything good, I’m usually most happy reading other critical or cynical voices tear into dishonest politicians, under-performing athletes, misguided celebrities and phony causes — [...]

Under the law of the jungle only the fittest survive, so what is this healthy-looking tiger doing hob bling around on three legs?
The WWF conservation group issued the pictures today of the Sumatran tiger limping in an Indonesian national park.
The WWF said that its staff suspect that the tiger is  one reported caught in a snare in November 2006 “that somehow scratched or cut his [...]

Al Gore stands beside copy of his seven-point pledge

People drive down a flooded street in Gainesville, Texas June 18, 2007.

Live Earth concerts around the globe on Saturday will show whether pop stars can do more than scientists and governments to encourage people to tackle global warming.
But are musicians the right people to get a message across about a need — as agreed by almost all climate experts – for sharp cuts in emissions of greenhouse gases in coming decades?
 
Stars bring charisma and hit songs [...]