Russia toughened its plans to curb harmful greenhouse gas emissions on Wednesday in a rare encouraging development before United Nations climate talks next month.

he Sierra Club, the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, the Natural Resources Defense Council and the National Parks Conservation Association claim plans for the mine do not adequately address potential detrimental environmental impacts

Most experts agree that we are losing upwards of 80,000 acres of tropical rainforest daily ... Along with this loss and degradation, we are losing some 135 plant, animal and insect species every day--or some 50,000 species a year--as the forests fall.

Environmentalists across the world are to be enlisted as armchair detectives to monitor satellite images of rainforests and report any illegal logging.

The Center for Biological Diversity submitted condemning evidence to the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection today demonstrating that Lake Mead, Las Vegas Bay, and Las Vegas Wash are being polluted by unregulated endocrine-disrupting chemicals.

Global temperatures are on a path to rise by an average of 6C by the end of the century as CO2 emissions increase and the Earth's natural ability to absorb the gas declines, according to a major new study.

The first high seas MPA in the Antarctic region has been declared in an area south of the South Orkney Islands. The proposal was successfully pitched by the UK delegation to the meetings last week of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic

The Copenhagen Climate conference is just around the corner and we are working on clear goals for the negotiations, a "simple" menu of what the world needs to agree on.

A mass of air laden with industrial nitrogen pollution may be hardly noticed in Britain, but it can cause a flurry of activity in bacteria living in extreme environments as far as the Arctic Svalbard archipelago, north of Norway.

Women farmers, particularly in poor countries will be worst hit by climate change as they make up the larger share of the agricultural work force and also because they have fewer access to income-earning o