Growth in population and tourism contaminate the islands' environment with alien species and pollution. But some say tourists, not citizens, should be kept out.

It is one of the key commitments in a draft climate change plan, which stops short of setting specific targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Cities are being unfairly blamed for most of humanity's greenhouse gas emissions and this threatens efforts to tackle climate change, warns a study in the October 2008 issue of the journal Environment and Urbanization.

Industrialized countries pledged more than $6.1 billion on Friday to international investment funds aimed at helping developing countries adopt cleaner technologies and mitigate growth in greenhouse gas emissions, the World Bank said

This looks like good news, but it's still a huge amount of water for town that may have greatly reduced water if snowpack continues to decline in the Shasta area in coming decades. It looks like locals are relieved to a degree but are not entirely comfort

The U.S Interior Department has decided to protect the polar bear as a threatened species because of the decline in Arctic sea ice from global warming, government officials told The Associated Press.

Save energy and money by using the outside cold air to cool refrigerators.

Today, dozens of parents and teachers pledged to make their classrooms Kleenex-free," said Greenpeace spokesperson Nikitas Mentiodes. "By removing Kleenex from the classroom, parents and teachers are setting a strong example to our children that we will

Forget the Oscar winners, check out the new documentary "Flow: For Love of Water".

Research from ancient sediment cores indicates that a warming climate could make the world's arctic tundra far more susceptible to fires than previously thought.