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Not everyone believes trading the right to pollute greenhouse gases will stop global warming, as vociferously demonstrated at a New York carbon conference.  Shouting “Renounce this treachery!” two self-dubbed “greenwash guerrillas” invaded a Point Carbon conference in New York’s Javits Center on Tuesday. The activists from a group called Rising Tide,  passed security posing as convention delegates. [...]

This patch of rock off northern Greenland hardly looks like a potential new front in a geopolitical tussle but have a look at Astrid Wendlandt’s fascinating story to find out why it might be.
The discoverer of the island, Dennis Schmitt, says it seems the world’s most northerly land – about 40 metres long.
Countries in the Arctic are trying to map out their [...]

Among tigers, leopards, lynx, lions, panthers and other cats, which merits the unwanted title as the world’s most endangered feline?
The question occurred to me because the WWF conservation group said a few days ago that the Iberian lynx, found only in Spain, is the “world’s most endangered cat species”. Extinction would be the first for [...]

  Paradise and pollution. The two hardly seem to go together. But in Bali, tackling huge amounts of rubbish is a real headache.
   As a frequent visitor to the emerald Indonesian island, I’ve always been a little shocked by the amount of rubbish that is casually discarded by residents.
    Rivers and streams seem to be [...]

What is the best way to encourage recycling?******Councils are to be given the green light to charge householders for the amount of rubbish they throw away.******Some estimates say such a move would cost the average household 250 pounds a year.******The idea is back on the agenda after MPs warned the European Commission could fine Britain [...]

Activists across east Africa have been celebrating after Uganda’s government dropped plans last week to carve off nearly a third of a protected rainforest to grow sugar cane.
Mabira Forest, which lies between the capital Kampala and the Source of the Nile at Jinja, is home to species including rare monkeys, birds and butterflies, and a medicinal shrub used to [...]

Germany’s conservative chancellor, Angela Merkel, has long been trying to persuade the United States and the rest of the world  to cut their greenhouse gas emissions .  
But when it comes to her own “backyard”, she rules out a measure that could instantly cut Germany’s CO2 — a speed limit on the country’s high-speed motorways, which the influential German carmakers have long opposed [...]

Switching off idled computers, unused lighting and copy machines at night or on weekends might seem like a fairly small and relatively uncontroversial way to save energy — and reduce CO2.
But I nevertheless get grief at times for switching off idled computers or some of the overhead lights at night, when the office is all but empty. [...]

There’s a growing buzz about making renewable fuel biodiesel from farmed algae. Single celled algae are some of the planet’s oldest, fastest multiplying forms of life. They also happen to have a big hunger for greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, and the resulting biodiesel could cut emissions from cars. Scientists have been talking about it for decades and the U.S. National Renewable [...]

There’s a fascinating battle unfolding in Germany for the moral high ground in the fight against climate change, an issue that has electrified German voters over the last year and will likely loom larger ahead of 2009 elections.
Chancellor Angela Merkel fancies herself a leader in the fight against global warming, despite her government letting utilities [...]

Al Gore used to be known as such a stiff in public when he was Vice President that he even enjoyed retelling self-deprecating jokes – like “Question: How can you tell Al Gore from his Secret Service agents? Answer: Al Gore is the stiff one”.
But something happened along the way to become a Nobel laureate.
Climate [...]

Africa now has a bigger urban population than North America, and 25 of the world’s fastest-growing large cities, says a report released this week by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED).
It also found that many of the world’s biggest cities now
have more people moving out than in, and that the planet’s urban population [...]

Yvo de Boer, the executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, generally has the mien of the diplomat that he is — dark-suited, well-spoken, calm, deliberate, serious. But on Friday he managed to poke fun at himself, or more specifically, his ears. In the end, he made a Star Trek allusion [...]

Solar houses aren’t what they used to be — and that is a cause for celebration. Specifically, on Washington’s National Mall, the 20 competing teams in this year’s Solar Decathlon spent the last few weeks celebrating the 20 small homes they designed to run only on the sun’s power. That means heating, cooling, cooking and [...]

The most welcoming place on the world’s most remote island has vanished.
Most people would know if their house blew away but scientists have only just noticed that a grey container-sized research station on Norway’s barren Bouvet Island in the South Atlantic, previously tied down with thick wires, has disappeared, apparently blown into the ocean by a [...]