Rewarding local communities and enshrining their rights are regarded as crucial steps for forest preservation schemes to succeed and help in the fight against climate change, experts say.

Illegal logging on Borneo island highlights the problems of designing incentives to protect tropical forests at U.N. talks in Cancun, Mexico.

Carbon market traders are worried about what will happen to many projects beyond 2012, when the current Kyoto Protocol runs out.

    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 [...]

It’s summer at the G8 media centre in Hokkaido. Yet underneath the building are tonnes of snow to keep journalists cool as they write about global warming.
Japan budgeted $283 million for security at the summit and $30 million to build a temporary, low-emissions media centre far from where the G8 leaders are meeting in a luxury [...]

  Climate change is a threat, we must all work together but we can’t let it affect economic growth or the ambitions of hundreds of millions of impoverished people to live better lives.
    That was basically the message from some of the world’s top polluters on Wednesday after they signed a regional climate declaration,  less than two [...]

  The world might squabbling over the Kyoto Protocol and how best to fight climate change.
     But a project involving thousands of ocean robots shows nations can still cooperate when it comes to weather forecasting and understanding the science of global warming.
     The 26-nation Argo project involves deploying and maintaining an array of tube-shaped robots 1.5 [...]

  In two years, an entire town in far north Queensland will be powered by the sun. The Australian state has plenty of sun — and plenty of coal.
     In fact, Queensland, a major coal user and exporter, has energy resources galore. But what’s interesting is that in the case of Cloncurry, population 4,500, the sums [...]

  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 [...]