Solar-powered water purification systems sold to Algeria, Malaysia: will they catch on?

A new species of monkey has been found in northern Myanmar — puzzling scientists because of a snub nose that means the monkeys are often heard “sneezing in the rain”. Why would anyone want, let…

Bjorn Lomborg worries that people will conclude he’s becoming like Al Gore

World leaders meet in New York on Wednesday to discuss ways to safeguard “biodiversity”. They have a way to go: surveys show some people reckon it’s a washing powder.

Archaeologists are finding a trove of reindeer hunting gear left by ancestors of the Vikings 1,500 years ago as ice fields melt in Norway’s highest mountains

A drugged tiger cub hidden among cuddly toys in a bag at Bangkok airport ranks as one of the most bizarre smuggling tricks. A 31-year-old Thai woman was about to board a flight to Iran when airport workers found the cub in her oversized bag. It highlights how smugglers find extreme ways of packing away live creatures.

The U.N. panel of climate scientists once exaggerated the cost of fighting global warming by 1,000 times. That mistake is at odds with suggestions this year that it has a bias to select evidence that will add to pressure on governments to act.

BP’s spill is killing ever more wildlife in the Gulf of Mexico — but a tiny spill in 1976 in the Baltic Sea killed far more birds. Conclusion: don’t spill oil.

Whales and dolphins should get “human rights” to life and liberty because of mounting evidence of their intelligence, a group of conservationists and experts in philosophy, law and ethics said.

Should whales and dolphins have rights to live undisturbed in the oceans? Some conservationists and philosophers think so.

The U.N. panel of climate scientists seeks ways to bolster its work after controveries about the thaw of Himalayan glaciers. But it’s faced many storms before.

Greenhouse gas emissions by industrialized nations fell by 2.2 percent in 2008, a Reuters compilation shows. Here is a breakdown of official national emissions data submitted to the U.N.

Can you find something wrong with a sentence promising that U.N. climate negotiators will “continue to work in a transparent and inclusive manner in accordance with the principles of the United Nations”? The negotiators in the bogged down talks certainly can.

You might want to be a rock star: Pearl Jam’s Stone Gossard is trying to be a businessman to help slow climate change.

You might want to be a rock star: Pearl Jam’s guitarist wants to be more of a businessman to help combat climate change.