The Queensland government will step up efforts to protect the Great Barrier Reef, starting with a summit and regular report cards on its health, Premier Anna Bligh says. Ms Bligh today released a report into water quality on the reef in 2007, saying th

Climate taxes, not cap and trade markets alone, will lead to the vast technological changes the world's energy system needs to fight global warming, a top U.S. economist reports today.

We can help break our addiction to fossil fuels like coal and oil by switching to renewable energy. In fact, with upgrades to our electricity grid, the United States could meet all of its power needs with renewable energy and support a significant portion

A slowdown in the world economy may give the planet a breather from the excessively high carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions responsible for climate change, a Nobel Prize winning scientist said

For a long time -- the first 15 years that we knew about global warming and did nothing -- there were no pictures. That was one of the reasons for inaction.

Whether the environmentalist bloggers are discussing climate change or conservation, these environmentalists offer a wealth of excellent information. Read on to find out which 100 blogs offer the best in environmentalist news, resources, and advice.

Climate change threatens Australia's A$2.1 billion (US$1.6 billion) commercial fishing and aquaculture industry, but may create new wild fisheries as tropical marine species move south as sea temperatures rise.

The survival of species critical to the livelihoods of millions - such as those in the "nusery grounds" of the Coral Triangle - is being called into question in the wake of the IUCN's warning this week of a mass global extinction unseen for 65 million yea

Innovation comes in all shapes and sizes. It can be a product, a method, even a new way of doing things. But, at its most monumental, innovation can change the world. With hundreds of thousands of miles of rain forests falling each year to deforestation,

A world that is just 0.5 °C warmer in 2100 than before the industrial revolution is a technical, economical possibility - but only just.