Soaring petrol prices and the credit crunch are forcing British drivers off the roads.
Traffic congestion was 12 percent less in the first half of this year than in the same period a year earlier, a survey has found.
Could this mean that the market might be the answer to the problem of overcrowded roads?
It seems a simpler way [...]

Vultures were circling the other day outside the building in Ghana where 160 nations are working on a climate treaty — maybe attracted by dozing delegates? How can the talks speed up?

 Welcome to the front lines of global warming in the United States – the Harding Ice Field in Alaska, the biggest icefield in the United States.
   At the Exit Glacier north of Seward – the only glacier in the Kenai Fjords National Park reachable by foot – the giant cerulean blue ice sheet gives every [...]

It seems the law of unintended consequences has struck again in Britain, and the environment could be the loser.
In an attempt to stop owners of factories, offices and warehouses from leaving their premises empty in the hope of higher rents, the government imposed a tax on vacant property.
But with the property market now in deep [...]

A group of Christians urged U.N. climate talks to put more emphasis on morality as a spur to action

For those of us who live in Beijing, the air during the Olympics has been a real treat. It smells sweet and breathes in nicely. Even better, I feel like I can see forever — buildings that are more than a mile away, even the purple outline of the Fragrant Hills to the west of the city. 
There [...]

    In a country of more than one billion people, protecting critically endangered species isn’t always a top priority when it comes to making a living and growing enough food.
    In the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, though, a court has halted construction of a major water canal to save one of the world’s rarest [...]

   A Kennedy may be showing up Al Gore as a small time dreamer. 
   Robert Kennedy, Jr. says the Goracle’s challenge to the United States to generate its electricity entirely from renewable sources within 10 years is not fast enough.
   “Al Gore said the other day we can do this in 10 years, and a lot [...]

A “green revoluition”, shifting towards renewable energies from oil, is unstoppable, Denmark’s Climate Minister says. Is it?

Cranky kids, mosquito bites, burnt marshmallows and soggy sleeping bags – camping in the summer is an American family ritual right up there with baseball and apple pie.

But like other aspects of American life involving big vehicles it has also been hitting the brakes in the face of  sky-high gas prices.
Statistics released on Thursday by the  Texas Association [...]

For anyone with a ‘green heart’ there was plenty of good news on the front page of the China Daily this morning, an English-language newspaper read by a myriad of expatriates and, especially during the Olympics, tens of thousands of journalists from around the world.
 
“Tax on big cars raised to save fuel,” read the page [...]

It’s true — elephants never forget. And that may mean the difference between life and death for herds coping with climate change.

That is one of the findings of a recent study by the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society and the Zoological Society of London, which suggests that old females may have long memories of distant sources [...]

Stocks of some big whales including the humpback are recovering after a 1980s moratorium on hunts, according to a new study. But will that encourage whaling nations to start sharpening their harpoons?

DALLAS – Following a path blazed by other U.S. religious groups, a diverse coalition of Jewish organizations has outlined its concerns regarding the environment and called for action from Congress and the Administration.
Spearheaded by the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life, it calls among other things for an aggressive 80 percent cut in carbon [...]

 Talk about occupational hazards.
Five Wildlife Conservation Society scientists studying the effects of global warming on shorebirds in Arctic Alaska had to be airlifted away from their remote camp late last month because of the appearance of another species whose life is changing as warming helps erode shores and melt sea ice.
 
The researchers said a polar bear [...]