It was as I lay in my Singapore hospital bed — ablaze with Dengue fever but shivering in a sweat that chilled my aching bones — that I truly began to understand why villagers in remote Indonesia would trade trees for decent services.

Reuters correspondent Pauline Askin is sailing in early December to the Antarctic for a six-week expedition on the ice continent where she will help restore Sir Douglas Mawson’s huts on Commonwealth Bay.

Cutting greenhouse gas emissions with photovoltaic systems has become something of an obsession for Reuters journalist Erik Kirschbaum.

California can teach the rest of the United States about energy efficiency, which will have to make the single most-important contribution if policymakers are serious about limiting greenhouse gas emissions and dampening demand for fossil fuels.

India has ambitious plans for solar as the country looks to boost its solar output to 20 gigawatts by 2022 from close to zero. Some companies are already looking to capture some of the demand they see growing in India.

Al Gore is on a speaking tour explaining his ideas for a sustainable, clean economy - but it will cost you $500 to hear them.

Experts say in a new report that global warming is accelerating — but sceptics point to “Climategate” to question findings.

The HIAPER Pole to Pole Observation mission, sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation, takes researchers aboard a highly modified Gulfstream jet to measure carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and other gases in the atmosphere at nearly all the earth’s latitudes.

The scenes of flooding in Cumbria are a shocking illustration of how Britain’s ageing drainage infrastructure is failing. Part of the solution lies in sustainable drainage, which mimics nature by encouraging filtration via permeable and vegetated surfaces and detention via ponds, wetlands and slowly flowing water.

Advocates for renewable energy hail net-metering as a key policy to spur generating electricity from solar and wind where it is consumed. A new report names which states in the United States make the grade — and which ones are flunking.

The biggest greenhouse gas emitter in California isn’t in California.

There will be a record number of side events at upcoming United Nations-sponsored climate talks in Copenhagen next month, but one woman’s one-woman show could give the delegates, most of whom will be men, the incentive they really need to agree a new global warming treaty.

Many scientists say that reducing carbon dioxide emissions is key to preventing climate change, but the authors of the book SuperFreakonomics say that geo-engineering is the route to take to save the planet.

A GPS marker floated hundreds of km on an iceberg off Antarctica after the breakup of the Wilkins Ice shelf

Richie Goldman, a former Men’s Wearhouse executive/ad man turned motivational book writer, says Chevron should take a more pragmatic approach to the environmental damage in Ecuador after decades of oil extraction.
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