Oceans regulate our climate. They play a key role in keeping the world's "homeostasis" in tact. However, their ability to absorb carbon & keep the climate in balance is dwindling, a new report shows.

Sea angels, jewel squid, helmet jellies and a 2m-wide octopod that flies with ear-like fins are among more than 17,000 new species discovered during 210 expeditions undertaken to explore the deep ocean for the international Census of Marine Life.

More than 50 leading scientists from around Australia have written to the Premier, Nathan Rees, asking him to protect the iconic Riverina red gum forests by creating huge national parks in south-western NSW

SPEND a pound and save the rainforest. A conservation group led by a millionaire sports tycoon and a former Labour minister is launching an appeal today to recruit 100,000 green heroes to protect trees in the Amazon. See www.coolearth.org to help out!

He is well known as India's 'glacier man', but for 74-year-old retired government civil engineer, Chewang Norphel, accolades have made little dent in his quiet determination to build more high-altitude water conservation systems, or 'artificial glaciers'

Global warming poses an unparalleled threat to wildlife and the natural environments on which they depend. Nearly 20 percent of annual greenhouse gas emissions come primarily from tropical deforestation in developing countries.

After seeing the incredibly sad images yesterday shot by Chris Jordan, that show what plastics in the oceans are doing to birds - and to many other marine species - the message above couldn't be more clear. And it also could be exactly what we have to loo

Chris Jordan 's work attempts to place the impact of consumerism in perspective. For his latest project he traveled to the Midway Islands, near the heart of the Pacific Trash Gyre , to photograph the decomposed bodies of chicks that have been fed plastic

Hopes were growing dim on the prospect of passing climate legislation this year--health care reform had taken over America's collective conscious, and the clean energy reform bill was getting delayed again and again. Everyone was beginning to accept that

What kinds of creatures would you expect to find in the world's most powerful tidal maelstrom? Named from the Scandinavian words for "grinding current," the tides storm in and out of the Saltstraumen sound, near the city of Bodø, Norway. While that makes