Swedish flat-pack furniture seller Ikea will stop offering plastic or paper bags at any of its US stores from this month. Each year, Americans also throw away some 100 billion polyethylene plastic bags, and less than one per cent of them are recycled.

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The International Union for the Conservation of Nature, based in Switzerland, has just reported that the earth faces the total extinction of one in every four mammals, and that the population is rapidly declining in one out of every two species.

Conservationists have been angered by the decision to fell a yew tree that may have been almost 1,000 years old. The tree stood in the home of Victorian naturalist Richard Jeffries who wrote about it

A season has passed since we covered the installation of Magco Inc.'s new thin film solar panel installation, so it's time to get back on the roof and report on some real-world figures.

It's no secret that our obsession with plastic bottles is turning into a bit of an environmental crisis, and no wonder, in the US alone 70 million bottles are purchased every day, yet only a measly 10 million are recycled

Soaring temperatures have led to the collapse of several huge ice shelves in the Canadian Arctic over the past few weeks.What's significant about this year's is that it means the long-term trend of ice loss is going down much faster than expected

The world must speed up the deployment of solar power as it has the potential to meet all the world's energy needs, the chairman of an industry gathering which wrapped up Friday in Spain said.

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