T WOULD be "irresponsible" for Australia to put a medium-term goal for reducing greenhouse targets on the table before the Government receives the advice of expert Ross Garnaut, the Prime Minister said.

Nearly 600 volunteers have stripped for the camera on a melting Swiss glacier high in the Alps for a publicity campaign to expose the impact of climate change. The campaign is aimed at drawing attention to melting Alpine glaciers...

The Bush administration's plans for saving the northern spotted owl from extinction have flunked a peer review by scientists. Under a contract with the administration, the Society for Conservation Biology and the American Ornithologists' Union said...

It appears that marijuana farming in California is no longer the preserve of the fun-loving hippie, but has become a big, destructive agribusiness. According to Recordnet, when the crop comes out in the fall, they leave behind: "Irrigation tubes that...

The timber industry and the Bush administration are now trying to use the spotted owl's new troubles to reverse more than a decade of sound environmental policy. Industry sees no reason why it cannot cut the trees where the spotted owl used to live.

In the battle over whether the people or corporations should control public water, residents of Stockton, Calif., won a huge victory over a multinational but other localities remain threatened.

Anyone in the news biz (or anyone who's a rabid West Wing fan like me) knows that bad news is always released on Friday afternoons. Why? Because nobody's paying attention to the newspapers on Saturday morning.

Prime Minister John Howard's plan for an emissions trading scheme is letting Australia's worst polluting industries get off the hook, the author of a damning book argues. Guy Pearse is a Liberal Party member and former adviser to the Howard Government...

On Saturday, Al Gore simultaneously took over and saved the world. A historic moment, signifying a vast sea change: the death of the Hummer, the rebirth of Flower Power. Two billion fans, 130 countries, seven continents and Jon Bon Jovi can't be wrong...

A DYING businessman has left his multi-million-dollar company to his staff in a stunning act of generosity.