Ecuador will establish a trust fund for receiving payments to leave oil reserves unexploited in Yasuni National Park, one of the world's most biodiverse rainforest reserves, reports the UN Development Programme, the agency that will administer the fund.

The environmental organization Greenpeace, has established a plan to set aside 40% of the worlds oceans as reserves as wildlife protected ares, where fish and other ocean life can live and breed without disturbance from reckless industrial and pirate

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The hopes of the whole world fell when Copenhagen collapsed in a weak agreement this weekend. But one group was cracking open the champagne - the polluting industry lobbyists who have bent our politicians' ears.

"About 45,000 travelled to the UN climate summit in Copenhagen - the vast majority convinced of the need for a new global agreement on climate change." A main cause for failure, "KEY GOVERNMENTS DO NOT WANT A GLOBAL DEAL".

When A-Power Energy Generation Systems secured a deal to supply turbines for a U.S. wind farm project in October, the little-known Chinese firm had an ace up its sleeve to help it clinch the deal.

Carbon dioxide emissions from human activities aren't just warming the planet. Another problem of rising atmospheric carbon dioxide is that CO2 is being absorbed by the oceans,

World leaders walked away from the global summit in Copenhagen without a treaty that will save the climate. The US, EU and Australia put short-term national interests before the fate of our planet. Together, we must let leaders know that we expect nothing

The largest single threat to the ecology and biodiversity of the planet in the decades to come will be global climate disruption due to the buildup of human-generated greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

Despite the dramatic decline of many ocean creatures due to exploitation for international trade, very few are internationally protected. In 2010, CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) will consider listin