What are you doing for Labor Day? Sponsoring a rally to cheer for blowing off the tops of mountains and destroying one of the world's most important biodiversity hotspots? If you're a Verizon Wireless customer, you may not know it, but you are.

Minke whales porpoising - Very unusual behaviour. Credit Lewis Drysdale Military sonar causing unusual behaviour in Scotland's whales

Brazil's Amazon forests are being axed at a faster rate than ever before, according to new annual figures recently released by the country's space agency INPE.

WARMER temperatures and earlier melting of sea ice are causing polar bears to go hungry. The number of undernourished bears has tripled in a 20-year period.

Poacher Japan has accused the conservation group Sea Shepherd and the crew of its ship, the Steve Irwin, of acting "like pirates" and plans to ask Australia and possibly New Zealand and Chile to ban an anti-whaling ship from using their ports.

Norway has lowered the quota of minke whales that can be killed by commercial whalers by nearly 16 percent, the Fisheries Ministry said Thursday.

The Peruvian government says it can reach zero deforestation in just 10 years with the help of funds from Western governments. It is taking its ambitious proposal to the latest round of UN talks on climate change, which are taking place in Poznan.

Australia and Indonesia will join forces to help the region cope better with extreme weather being wrought by climate change and other natural disasters. Australia will spend $67 million over five years to help establish a Jakarta-based centre, aimed at

More than a tenth of greenhouse gas emissions in the EU are caused by cars. The German car industry is lobbying hard to stop European lawmakers from setting tough emissions standards.

You've heard us say it, and now you can read it in Tom Friedman's new book Hot, Flat, and Crowded - the slashing and burning of forests emits more CO2 than all of the world's cars, trucks and planes combined. Take a moment to think about that.