Despite China's pledges to improve energy efficiency, its carbon emissions could double by 2020 as compared with 2005 levels, surpassing limits seen as key to fighting global warming, experts say.

Virgin rainforest is cleared for illegal coca plantations while toxic chemicals are used to process the leaves. Discarded chemicals, which are dumped in the forest and its rivers, poison rare plants and animals.

It's hard to imagine a world in which polar bears don't exist in the wild. Alun Anderson, former editor-in-chief of New Scientist magazine, asserts that it most likely will occur in our lifetime.

It seems our ecosystem is going to be changed a more, if not too much. Certain disturbance at any level of ecosystem leads to imbalance the whole. Environmental researchers have called for attention to the yellow light flashing in the polar region......

To bring the Atlantic Forest back from the brink of extinction, over eighty environmental organizations, private companies, governments, researchers, and landowners launched in the Atlantic Forest Restoration Pact.

Deforestation and climate change are intimately connected: Globally, deforestation releases nearly 2 billion tons of carbon dioxide per year, and is responsible for nearly 25 percent of man-made CO2 emissions. Lets work together to TAKE ACTION

Tens of thousands of protesters marched through the chilly Danish capital and 600 were detained Saturday, in a mass rally to demand an ambitious global climate pact just as talks hit a snag over rich nations' demands on China and other emerging economies.

The lower 48 states in the U.S. have the potential to store an additional 3-7 billion metric tons of carbon in forests, if agricultural lands were to be used for planting forests - equivalent to 2 to 4 years of America's current fossil fuels emmissions.

Global warming will resume its upward climb again next year, the UK Met Office predicted yesterday at the UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen - forecasting that 2010 will be the hottest year ever recorded for the world.

Police detained at least 40 people Friday in the first street protests linked to a two-week climate conference in Copenhagen as negotiators prepared for the final stage of talks on controlling the world's greenhouse gases.