The Kintampo South District Chief Executive, Yaw Adjei Duffour, has called for extra measures to check the incidence of illegal logging, in the District. According to him the illegal harvesting of teak in the Anyima and Amoma section

There are many questions about ethanol's place in America's energy future. Some are easily answered; others, not so much.

WASHINGTON - The harmful effects of global warming on daily life are already showing up, and within a couple of decades hundreds of millions of people won't have enough water, top scientists will say next month at a meeting in Belgium.

The energy source of the future may lie beneath the ocean floor and under Arctic permafrost, scientists say. Both places are sources of gas hydrates, strange icelike substances that trap methane--the primary component of natural gas.

"Global warming may be the greatest challenge of our time, setting at risk our economy, environment and national security," Pelosi, D-Calif., said in a statement...

Greenpeace and federal Labor have urged Prime Minster John Howard to try to pressure Japan to end its whaling program when he visits the country next week.

Blue whale love songs are no longer a secret from the prying ears of researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego, Calif. Scientists used tags suctioned to the whales' bodies and tracked the whales.

Another sperm whale trapped in shallow water on Tasmania's west coast has been rescued.

The European Union members approved a new target late Thursday to cut the bloc's greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent from the 1990 level in 2020. Climate change was high on the agenda when leaders from the 27 EU member states

An elderly environmentalist who has spent more than two years in jail for anti-logging protests was yesterday handed a 10-month sentence for criminal contempt of court. Betty Krawczyk was involved in protests last May against highway construction thro