Article archive for category "Nature"

Wednesday 07 January 2009

• Mystery disease leaves California pelicans bruised, disoriented

Tuesday 12 August 2008

• Wildlife Conservation Society discovers Planet of the Apes

Saturday 12 July 2008

• US environmental agency delays climate action, seeks public input

Tuesday 15 April 2008

• Seven chicks boost population of rare parrot to 92

Monday 14 April 2008

• Japan falls short of whaling targets

Monday 18 February 2008

• Forget whales, dugongs are the ones on the brink
• German scientists warn of changes in Arctic Ocean circulation

Tuesday 12 February 2008

• Small islands renew call for protection against climate change
• Only 1,411 tigers left in protected forests in India

Monday 11 February 2008

• UN seeks major role in fighting climate change

Saturday 09 February 2008

• Biofuels may promote, not slow, global warming: report

Friday 08 February 2008

• Japan tells Australia to cool it in whaling spat
• Nature groups say North Sea spill hits 10,000 birds

Thursday 07 February 2008

• Norway sets quota for 2008 minke whaling season

Wednesday 06 February 2008

• Uganda's elephant numbers rise after near decimation under dictator

Tuesday 05 February 2008

• US Navy weighing appeal of sonar case
• Study says half of world population once lived in southern Asia

Sunday 03 February 2008

• Global warming threatens to devastate the Mediterranean

Friday 01 February 2008

• Ancestor of modern crocodile found in Brazil - 'Missing link'

Tuesday 29 January 2008

• EU cities launch climate-change battle plan

Monday 28 January 2008

• Thailand tree apes use song as warning

Saturday 26 January 2008

• Australia to put kangaroos on the pill

Thursday 24 January 2008

• Greed for meat, soy kills rainforest at record speed
• Destruction of Brazil's rain forest accelerating

Wednesday 23 January 2008

• World's crop varieties to be preserved in deep-freeze Arctic vault
• Background: The EU's renewable-energy targets
• Background: The EU's emissions-cutting plans
• EU's internal laws target global climate deal
• IPCC head: EU climate change measures 'not up to expectations'
• EU approves ambitious energy and climate change package
• India launches anti-poaching force to curb tiger, wildlife trade

Tuesday 22 January 2008

• Northern Irish UNESCO heritage site threatened by rising seas
• Greenpeace halts Japanese whalers from refueling in Antarctic

Monday 21 January 2008

• German study confirms faster temperature gain in Baltic
• Interview: Top EU ecology expert wants global warming Marshall plan
• New York clones ancient trees in greening efforts
• Wild boars grow streetwise and blatant in Berlin
• Brussels to throw down the gauntlet on climate change

Saturday 19 January 2008

• Parched Australians watch the river flow
• Costa Rica protects whales in territorial waters

Friday 18 January 2008

• EU states must work harder on species protection, Brussels says

Wednesday 16 January 2008

• Eating less meat would save emissions, like driving a Prius

Monday 14 January 2008

• Priming bulls to sire a better steak

Thursday 10 January 2008

• EU set to unveil greenhouse gas reduction, renewable energy package

Thursday 03 January 2008

• Madagascar to sharpen sanctions for fires causing deforestation

Thursday 27 December 2007

• WWF: threatened species list continues to grow

Wednesday 26 December 2007

• Whale shark thrives in Australian eco-tourism park

Wednesday 19 December 2007

• EU ministers raise a storm with annual fisheries deal
• Greenpeace ship sails to thwart Japanese whalers

Tuesday 18 December 2007

• YEARENDER: UN blitz year on climate change is linked to poverty goals

Monday 17 December 2007

• Scientists discover giant rat in Indonesia's Papua
• Greenpeace blocks EU fish talks with seven-ton protest

Saturday 15 December 2007

• Climate conference clinches deal, greens critical
• Bali high drama - then the warming conference finds its cool
• China, India block UN climate deal

Friday 14 December 2007

• Bali deadline passes, talks to continue overnight
• Bali deadline passes with talks extended

Thursday 13 December 2007

• 2007 on course as fifth warmest globally; one of US warmest
• Bali talks at tipping point as Gore, EU pressure US (Roundup)
• US uncompromising at climate conference
• Environment ministers under pressure to reach consensus
• Red Cross reports growing rates of natural disasters

Wednesday 12 December 2007

• Nobel Peace Prize winner Gore calls for CO2 tax
• Time to act on climate change is now, says Ban

Tuesday 11 December 2007

• World Bank sets up fund to promote tropical forest conservation
• The Kyoto Protocol - its targets and how to meet them
• Asia took brunt of climate change in 2006, NGO finds
• Finance ministers discuss economic issues of climate change

Monday 10 December 2007

• US says no to greenhouse gas cuts at climate talks others available
• Conflicts to increase with temperatures, scientists and UN warn
• US says no to 25- to 40-per-cent cuts at climate talks
• Indonesia announces national conservation programme for orangutans

Sunday 09 December 2007

• UN Climate Secretariat pleased with Bali negotiations

Saturday 08 December 2007

• Demand for palm oil sets off wave of deforestation
• Indonesia demands protection of tropical forests
• Victims put a human face on impact of climate change
• UN Climate Secretariat pleased with Bali negotiations

Friday 07 December 2007

• South-Asian countries agree protection of coral reefs
• Oil palm plantations squeezing out proboscis monkeys
• UN: Billions of dollars in investment needed to protect climate
• Reaching new climate deal will be toughest challenge yet: Ban
• World's 'lungs' wheezing: Forest protection key at climate summit

Thursday 06 December 2007

• More than half of Amazon forest could be gone by 2030, WWF warns
• Scientists call for climate action; US says no to caps at Bali

Wednesday 05 December 2007

• Bold action demanded at climate talks, but delegates divided
• US, Japan, Canada accused of obstruction at climate conference

Tuesday 04 December 2007

• Kashmir wildlife officials burn truckloads of animal fur, skins
• Africa's largest lake under threat as bleak future predicted
• Activists urge rich to pay up to help poor adapt to climate change

Monday 03 December 2007

• UN warns 'paradise' under threat as climate meeting begins
• UN warns 'paradise' under threat at start of climate meet

Sunday 02 December 2007

• Wen: Developed countries should help developing nations on climate
• For public, nuclear energy no longer foe, but friend
• Pentagon examines use of solar unit in space

Saturday 01 December 2007

• Tree huggers transformed: Slammed doors now open
• Carbon mitigation will cost - but so will doing nothing
• EU emissions trading - more than hot air? 
• Wangari Maathai campaigner: Protect trees and livelihood
• Climate change peace prize sparks debate in Norway
• Bali meeting should agree on post-Kyoto timetable: Merkel
• Here comes the Sun: renewable energies take hold in Namibia

Friday 30 November 2007

• Rare gorillas returned home to Cameroon after botched smuggling

Thursday 29 November 2007

• Vietnamese say country lacks strategy on climate change

Wednesday 28 November 2007

• EU proposes yet more cuts to fishing quotas for 2008
• India says UN climate targets flawed
• UN's Billion Tree Campaign succeeds ahead of Bali talks

Tuesday 27 November 2007

• Climate change fight shows a divided world, UN says
• Second thoughts on Australia's Kyoto boycott

Monday 26 November 2007

• Rising sea level should be issue of concern at Bali: UN panel chief
• Indian park offers cash reward for spotting missing tiger

Friday 23 November 2007

• UN: Carbon dioxide levels reach new high

Thursday 22 November 2007

• Jellyfish attack wipes out Northern Ireland's only salmon farm
• Greenpeace blasts climate declaration as 'weak and inadequate'

Wednesday 21 November 2007

• Fossil researchers find huge scorpion in German quarry

Tuesday 20 November 2007

• Asia disappoints in climate change efforts
• Nations on course to meet Kyoto targets, UN body says

Monday 19 November 2007

• Market demand to influence Icelandic decision on commercial whaling
• EU living beyond its environmental means, says WWF
• Asia to bear the brunt of climate change, report says

Sunday 18 November 2007

• Hot chilli peppers keep elephants at bay in India
• Japanese whaling fleet heads to Antarctica despite protests

Saturday 17 November 2007

• UN warns of climate 'catastrophe', urges urgent action
• 'Global action' needed as IPCC report issues stark climate warning
• Deal reached on final IPCC climate report - starkest warnings yet

Friday 16 November 2007

• IPCC hopes final report will be manual for tackling warming

Monday 12 November 2007

• World climate experts meet to agree synthesis report

Sunday 11 November 2007

• Hundreds work to save wildlife after San Francisco oil spill

Thursday 08 November 2007

• Over-fishing in South-East Asia threatens favourite seafoods

Monday 05 November 2007

• Cold, wet but sexy nevertheless

Friday 02 November 2007

• Chemical plant plan threatens Tanzanian flamingos - activists
• From Europa to Euro-parrot? 
• Ex-Army men to protect tigers in India

Thursday 01 November 2007

• One-third of freshwater fish face at risk in Europe: study
• Europe's big guns put climate change on the security agenda

Monday 29 October 2007

• Mountain forest agencies team up in Europe

Friday 26 October 2007

• Nearly one third of world's species under extinction threat

Thursday 25 October 2007

• World bugged by stubborn environment problems: report
• Countries may defeat poverty, but earth suffers: report
• Two years left to save wild orangutans from extinction

Tuesday 23 October 2007

• Gore calls for urgent action to tackle global warming
• Global warming could lead to new 'Cold War'

Saturday 20 October 2007

• Bush to announce plans to protect fish species

Friday 19 October 2007

• North Sea cod stocks improve but quotas should remain, council says

Tuesday 16 October 2007

• Member of Nobel Prize winner group wants climate message fine-tuned
• Asia must prepare for new challenges facing forestry, UN says
• Small ozone hole over Antarctic not an indication of recovery

Thursday 11 October 2007

• Tasmanian devils doomed by shallow gene pool
• Penguins have pals too, researcher says
• SOS: Save Our Seas, Brussels calls

Wednesday 10 October 2007

• Oldest known sauropod footprints found in Switzerland

Tuesday 09 October 2007

• Report finds Irish red squirrel under threat

Friday 05 October 2007

• Plants known as 'living fossils' use insects for sex
• From killer to cuddly: shark fans look to turn the tide

Thursday 04 October 2007

• EU fisheries policy puts fishing at risk - WWF

Saturday 29 September 2007

• BBC naturalist protests Dutch fundamentalist edit of evolution

Thursday 27 September 2007

• US sticks with voluntary steps to fight global warming
• Eleven new plant and animal species discovered in Vietnam

Tuesday 25 September 2007

• World leaders lay groundwork for post-Kyoto carbon controls
• Technology against climate change? Yes, but which one?
• Developed world must tackle 'defining' climate issue (Roundup)

Monday 24 September 2007

• Climate change will 'define' us: Ban opens climate conference

Thursday 20 September 2007

• New Zealand boasts ambitious climate change policy

Wednesday 19 September 2007

• Canada names fossil after Indian geologist

Tuesday 18 September 2007

• Healthier ozone after 20 years, but new problems: Montreal

Saturday 15 September 2007

• UN: Climate change poses real threat to ozone recovery

Wednesday 12 September 2007

• List of endangered species continues growing fast
• An ever warmer Adriatic now 'no longer knows winter'

Tuesday 11 September 2007

• Polar bears could become extinct by 2050, warns the WWF
• Godwit flies record 11,500 kilometres non-stop

Monday 10 September 2007

• G8 environment, energy ministers meet on climate change
• German biologists identify 43 new species on Madagascar

Sunday 09 September 2007

• Australia defends APEC's climate fudge

Wednesday 05 September 2007

• UN to hold special conference on climate change

Monday 03 September 2007

• European Commission calls for major Baltic cod quota cuts
• Danish researchers warn of melting Arctic ice cap

Friday 31 August 2007

• Climate delegates struggle for strong signal on warming
• US Navy wins a round in whale sonar case
• Vienna climate talks stall on emission cut range agreement

Thursday 30 August 2007

• 'Extinct' dolphin spotted in Yangtze

Wednesday 29 August 2007

• Scientists create Mighty Mouse with four times the muscle mass

Monday 27 August 2007

• UN turns on the heat for post-Kyoto options

Saturday 25 August 2007

• Iceland to suspend commercial whaling for now, says minister

Wednesday 22 August 2007

• Canadian oil spill threatens killer whales

Saturday 18 August 2007

• Hundreds strip to expose naked truth on global warming

Thursday 16 August 2007

• Australian scientists find southern ocean's missing link

Thursday 09 August 2007

• Danish government to force citizens to fight snail plague
• New fossil finds challenge story of human evolution

Wednesday 08 August 2007

• Al Gore discusses climate crisis with Singapore's prime minister

Thursday 02 August 2007

• Climate experts call for clear programme to fight global warming

Tuesday 31 July 2007

• Conservationists appeal for end to poisoning of wildlife in Uganda

Monday 30 July 2007

• Hurricane frequency over Atlantic has doubled in 100 years: study

Thursday 26 July 2007

• Carnivores poisoned by herdsmen in Ugandan game park

Monday 16 July 2007

• EU states split on cultivation of genetically-engineered potato

Friday 13 July 2007

• Conservationists and gardeners fear 'killer slugs'

Thursday 12 July 2007

• Scientists predict floods in New York from global warming

Wednesday 11 July 2007

• Scientists find hominid fossils that shed light on evolutionary gap
• US seeks foothold as melting Arctic invites conflict
• Climate change swim - Polar Bear man takes an icy plunge

Tuesday 10 July 2007

• Arctic melt raises strategic issues, US defence officials warn

Monday 09 July 2007

• Spitting orangutans solve nutty problem just the way we humans do

Sunday 08 July 2007

• When the music stops, will Live Earth matter?

Friday 06 July 2007

• Iceland to reduce cod quotas by 30 per cent

Saturday 30 June 2007

• Spaniards discover remains of oldest European

Friday 29 June 2007

• Namibia licences cull of 86,000 seals - activists protest

Thursday 28 June 2007

• Bald eagle, a US icon, removed from endangered species list
• Famed Goa beaches under threat from rains, reckless construction

Tuesday 26 June 2007

• Ugandan wildlife threatened by foot and mouth disease
• Penguins lived at equator 42 million years ago

Sunday 24 June 2007

• Danish authorities confirm seals victim of deadly distemper virus

Saturday 23 June 2007

• Last 'dancing bears' in Bulgaria rescued from torment

Thursday 21 June 2007

• Spaniards discover animal species paradise in Guinean crater

Wednesday 20 June 2007

• Inuit activist honoured for fight against climate change

Monday 18 June 2007

• Early Arctic spring indication of climate change
• Spanish vultures head north, nature group blames EU

Thursday 14 June 2007

• CITES clears way for one-off ivory sale, extends ban
• Optimistic signals from informal climate meeting of 28 nations

Tuesday 12 June 2007

• Vietnam scuba diver favorite Nha Trang rapidly losing coral

Monday 11 June 2007

• Ugandan chimps threatened by massive felling of forests

Friday 08 June 2007

• Last stand of the Baltic eagle

Thursday 07 June 2007

• Australia proposes APEC sequel to Kyoto climate deal

Wednesday 06 June 2007

• Yemen faces worst locust outbreak in 14 years, FAO warns
• eBay announces ban on ivory trade on its sites

Tuesday 05 June 2007

• Climate scientists warn cuts to US programme to hurt research

Monday 04 June 2007

• Brown bear seen in Switzerland for first time in two years
• G8 negotiators seek to resolve climate impasse
• Forests in the front line of climate change

Sunday 03 June 2007

• Conference on protection of world species starts in The Hague

Saturday 02 June 2007

• Ban welcomes Bush's call for climate talks
• Holland prepares for meeting protecting world species

Friday 01 June 2007

• Anchorage meeting ends in victory for anti-whaling camp (Roundup)
• Victory for anti-whaling camp at Anchorage meeting

Thursday 31 May 2007

• Ban urges rich nations to increase measures against climate change
•  Japan's whale hunt condemned at IWC, sanctuary vote fails

Tuesday 29 May 2007

• Predator vultures eat Spanish farm animals alive
• Biologist slams Japan, wants broader whaling panel

Monday 28 May 2007

• Commercial whaling opponents face tough fight at IWC meet
• California humpback whales start heading out to sea
• Danish scientist believed to have discovered new owl species
• Exotic marine life discovered in deep Antarctic waters

Saturday 26 May 2007

• Water spray holds hope for stranded California whales

Friday 25 May 2007

• Stranded whales given a break before hoses employed
• Long trek up to track Rwanda's rare mountain gorillas

Thursday 24 May 2007

• A bridge too far as California whales remain stranded
• US carbon emissions fell in 2006 despite growing economy

Wednesday 23 May 2007

• India's tiger population being fast depleted, say officials
• Concern grows as stranded whales circle

Tuesday 22 May 2007

• One in six European mammals face extinction, new study claims
• Zambia joins southern African appeal to CITES for sale of ivory
• Ocean's biggest mammals increasingly prey to climate change

Monday 21 May 2007

• Last of the white rhino - going, going, gone
• After river adventure whales heading back to ocean

Thursday 17 May 2007

• Scientists begin efforts to return wandering whales

Wednesday 16 May 2007

• Massive melt in Antarctica: worst in 30 years says NASA

Thursday 10 May 2007

• Encyclopaedia of Life launched to document 1.8 million species

Wednesday 09 May 2007

• High-power UN trio to tackle political aspects of climate change

Monday 07 May 2007

• Thai scientists working on crocodile smiles

Saturday 05 May 2007

• Governments welcome UN's threat and olive branch on climate

Friday 04 May 2007

• Highlights of first two parts of global warming report
• Carbon dioxide and the greenhouse effect
• The IPCC and the UN climate survey
• Mitigating global warming is doable, says UN report
• UN climate official wants binding targets in post-Kyoto deal

Thursday 03 May 2007

• Alarm grows in European farming over drought
• The costs of climate change - and who should pay
• Thinking like rats: why humans fail to act on climate change
• WWF: Low cost for global salvation key outcome of UN climate talks

Wednesday 02 May 2007

• Spaniards' beloved storks stop migrating

Tuesday 01 May 2007

• 110-million-year-old fossil world's oldest, Mexican researchers say

Monday 30 April 2007

• US, EU pledge to work together on climate change
• Solutions-focused UN climate summit kicks off in Bangkok
• Artificial snow endangers Alpine water resources, scientists say

Saturday 28 April 2007

• Deadly algae blamed for seal and dolphin deaths

Friday 27 April 2007

• Culprit found in honeybee decline?
• Time running out to avoid climate disaster
• World's first cloned wolves authentic, inquiry finds

Wednesday 25 April 2007

• Beijing plans to control rainfall for Olympic ceremonies
• India gets international help to protect its forests

Tuesday 24 April 2007

• Rarely seen rhino filmed in the wild

Monday 23 April 2007

• Singapore going Dutch in preparation for rising sea levels
• Australia's wollemi pine not so wondrous
• T. Rex is a distant relative of the chicken, say scientists

Friday 20 April 2007

• Australians crave a rainy day

Tuesday 17 April 2007

• UN Security Council debates on global warming
• Climate change in Africa - 'focus should be adaptation': experts

Monday 16 April 2007

• Snows of Kilimanjaro safe until 2050
• Antarctica's sediment core confirms climate fluctuation

Wednesday 11 April 2007

• Ecuador declares Galapagos Islands an endangered area

Tuesday 10 April 2007

• Protecting oceans is important to keeping planet cool: report
• Don't plant that tree! It might make matters worse: report
• Millions face floods, hunger in Asia due to climate change

Saturday 07 April 2007

• Singapore team to study impact of climate change

Friday 06 April 2007

• Main facts in global warming report
• Lower Amazon forests face stress from climate change
• Europe faces more floods, disastrous heat waves
• Governments, NGOs call for urgent action on IPCC report (Roundup)
• Canada's controversial seal hunt slowed by weather, thin ice
• IPCC approves climate change report after last-minute changes
• US scientist expects 'pain' of global warming to vary
• Carbon dioxide and the greenhouse effect

Thursday 05 April 2007

• Global warming enters UN Security Council as war, famine issue
• Massive volcanic eruption spews rivers of lava on La Reunion
• German airship to check thickness of Arctic ice

Wednesday 04 April 2007

• China, US, Russia looking to tone down UN climate report
• Making peace with global warming - a tough sell
• The IPCC and the UN climate survey

Tuesday 03 April 2007

• Warning of mass seal deaths in Caspian Sea
• Canada lowers seal hunt quotas due to thinning ice

Monday 02 April 2007

• Rhinos, elephants targeted by poachers in southern Africa
• EU urges US, China, India to join climate change battle
• New Zealand scientists cultivate new flower
• Come on in, the water's freezing

Saturday 31 March 2007

• Three more rare lions killed in India's Gir sanctuary

Wednesday 28 March 2007

• Preview: Scientists predict dire societal results of global warming
• Global players battle over climate change

Tuesday 27 March 2007

• Hong Kong diners advised to stop eating endangered species

Monday 26 March 2007

• South Korean scientists clone wolves
• Homing pigeons just follow their noses, er, beaks

Sunday 25 March 2007

• Stench of marine life death forces suspension of tours

Saturday 24 March 2007

• Knut mania in photo gallery

Wednesday 21 March 2007

• Denmark to host UN summit on climate
• Uganda to replace forest reserve with sugar plantation

Tuesday 20 March 2007

• Danube commission criticizes WWF for endangered Danube claims
• Lithuanians hail 'lucky escape' after sewage spill in UNESCO waters
• World's biggest rivers drying up: WWF

Monday 19 March 2007

• Antarctic expedition shows how climate change affects undersea world
• Camels wear out their welcome in Australia

Sunday 18 March 2007

• Greenpeace critical of G8 environment conference in Germany

Saturday 17 March 2007

• US and other G8 members split on climate change measures
• No deal for developing world at environment conference
• G8 environment ministers discuss climate with developing countries

Friday 16 March 2007

• G8 launches initiative to counter biodiversity loss

Thursday 15 March 2007

• Winter was world's warmest since 1880

Tuesday 13 March 2007

• Climate change will affect world's forests, FAO report warns

Monday 12 March 2007

• Cow's milk was indigestible to all our neolithic ancestors
• 13 new corals found in Gulf of Mannar

Monday 05 March 2007

• FAO sounds warning about overfishing

Sunday 04 March 2007

• Divers in Yucatan discover world's longest known underground river
• World Heritage lake takes in sea water in rough weather

Friday 02 March 2007

• Hong Kong has hottest February as global warming evidence mounts

Wednesday 28 February 2007

• Marine experts warn poisonous exotic fish in Mediterranean
• Animal welfare groups welcome elephant management plans

Tuesday 27 February 2007

• Rock samples show big variations in climate over 3 million years

Monday 26 February 2007

• Japan's dolphin slaughter draws animal rightists' ire

Saturday 24 February 2007

• Australia plots climate change escape route for wildlife

Thursday 15 February 2007

• January was hottest ever, scientists say
• Global warming conference urges post-Kyoto plan by 2009
• Thousands expected in Bali for next major climate conference
• Forum seeks 'normalization' of International Whaling Commission

Tuesday 13 February 2007

• Global warming raises drought risks, NASA says

Monday 12 February 2007

• Climate change may be worse than predicted, expert warns

Sunday 11 February 2007

• Nepal's freshwater dolphins heading towards extinction

Friday 02 February 2007

• UN panel: Humans to blame for 'unequivocal' global warming (Roundup)
• UN panel finds 'unequivocal' evidence for global warming

Tuesday 30 January 2007

• US government meddles in climate science: report

Sunday 28 January 2007

• Vietnamese pot-bellied pig on verge of extinction

Friday 26 January 2007

• South Pacific island-nations endangered by rising sea levels
• Ultraviolet light found to promote romance among jumping spiders

Monday 22 January 2007

• First joint meeting for tuna conservation opens in Japan

Monday 15 January 2007

• Drains provide haven for threatened fern species in the Netherlands

Saturday 13 January 2007

• Greening ASEAN to boost Borneo rainforest project

Wednesday 10 January 2007

• China fails to meet environment-protection targets

Monday 08 January 2007

• Corrosive yellow-green substance killing seabirds along Dutch coast

Friday 05 January 2007

• Study shows rising temperatures could kill off Mediterranean fish
• Escaped farmed fish pose potential threat to wild Norwegian stocks

Thursday 04 January 2007

• Locust plague casts shadow on Mexican state of Yucatan
• New Year could be warmest on record British experts predict

Wednesday 03 January 2007

• Australia warming faster than rest of globe, climate report says

Monday 01 January 2007

• Conservation experts fear rhinos near extinction in Nepal
• Micro-world of prehistoric bacteria found in nuggets of amber

Friday 29 December 2006

• German chancellor to meet Bush in Washington

Thursday 28 December 2006

• 2006 Review: Another year of extreme weather, but is it global warming?

Wednesday 27 December 2006

• US considers listing polar bears as endangered species

Tuesday 26 December 2006

• Scientific debate heats up over fate of Australia's dinosaurs

Sunday 24 December 2006

• Hong Kong skies polluted by smog one day in three during 2006

Saturday 23 December 2006

• Researchers find DNA surprise in elephant sharks

Thursday 21 December 2006

• Spanish scientists discover Europe's biggest dinosaur

Wednesday 20 December 2006

• Spanish scientists discover bears that do not hibernate
• Special on Orang-utans: A visitor's guide to Kalimantan, Indonesia
• Special on Orang-utans: Riverboat to see the orang-utans of Kalimantan
• Special on Orang-utans: Kusasi, the orang-utan king, struggles for his throne
• Special on Orang-utans - Interview: Dr Biruté Galdika

Monday 18 December 2006

• Creature carnage as fires sweep Australia

Sunday 17 December 2006

• Representatives of 27 countries oppose Japanese whaling

Saturday 16 December 2006

• Whale saved after being stranded in Malaysian waters

Thursday 14 December 2006

• Scientists can predict quake effects within seconds

Wednesday 13 December 2006

• OECD says climate change threatens European ski trade

Tuesday 12 December 2006

• Potential mud volcanoes off Phuket highlight need for more research

Monday 11 December 2006

• Seventy-million-year sea reptile found in Antarctica
• New Zealand rejects claim cattle biggest environmental threat

Sunday 10 December 2006

• Feasibility study launched on preserving Dead Sea

Friday 08 December 2006

• Courts fines lasso-wielding Greenlanders for killing polar bear

Wednesday 06 December 2006

• Global warming reduces ocean's CO2 consumption in dangerous cycle
• Icelanders fear commercial whaling may harm tourism: Report
• Victoria Falls risks being placed on endangered list: Report

Monday 04 December 2006

• Amazon protection to be expanded in Brazil's Para state
• Bushfires threaten to incinerate koalas
• German scientists reconstructing Neanderthal genetic code
• Stranded whales fair badly in Australia

Saturday 02 December 2006

• Groundwater polluted in 90 per cent of Chinese cities

Thursday 30 November 2006

• Indonesian villagers threaten to kill rampaging wild elephants

Monday 27 November 2006

• Bangkok could be underwater in 15-20 years, disaster expert warns

Sunday 26 November 2006

• Parched Australians pray for rain
• Kaziranga's rhino fights back with villagers' support

Saturday 25 November 2006

• Tasmanian devils board survival ark

Thursday 23 November 2006

• Russian quake tsunami affected New Zealand 3-4 days

Wednesday 22 November 2006

• Russian scientists predict new Ice Age in 50 years
• German scientists discover three new primate species
• Fossil hunters find dinosaur-age fish

Tuesday 21 November 2006

• Male chimpanzees find older females sexy
• Fake sex saves the lives of male crayfish

Saturday 18 November 2006

• EU satisfied with 'solid progress' at climate conference
• Activists denounce lacklustre results of climate talks (Roundup)

Friday 17 November 2006

• Progress at climate talks, final decision awaited (Roundup)
• No plan to offset emissions created by climate talks
• Britain launches crackdown on trade in endangered species products
• Delegates still squabbling as climate talks enter last day
• Scientists in Singapore seeking to beat next year's haze
• US protests Japan's whale hunt

Wednesday 15 November 2006

• Two teams deduce date when Neanderthals parted from modern humans
• Annan deplores leadership in fight against climate change (Roundup)
• Japanese whaling fleet begins Antarctic 'research' hunt
• Annan deplores leadership in fight against climate change
• Endangered gibbons resurface on China's border with Vietnam

Tuesday 14 November 2006

• Bihar for conservation of rare river dolphins
• Analysis: Australia changes tack on climate change

Monday 13 November 2006

• Dragnet launched for Tasmania's foxes
• Four years on, wreck of tanker Prestige still leaks oil off Spain
• New evidence shows a different meteor killed dinosaurs

Sunday 12 November 2006

• China conference warns of huge increase in carbon emission rates

Saturday 11 November 2006

• More whales die in New Zealand stranding

Thursday 09 November 2006

• EU ready to include airlines in greenhouse gas trading scheme

Wednesday 08 November 2006

• Chalk one up to nature, 'extinct' parrot foundliving

Tuesday 07 November 2006

• Climate change threatens thousands of heritage sites - UN

Monday 06 November 2006

• UN Climate Change Conference kicks off in Nairobi (Roundup)
• Endangered coral reefs the 'wealth of the impoverished'
• Orangutan found with 62 bullets in body near Indonesian park
• UN Climate Change Conference kicks off in Nairobi on Monday

Sunday 05 November 2006

• Africa to top agenda at UN climate change conference in Nairobi

Saturday 04 November 2006

• More than 200,000 trees to be planted following massive hill fire

Friday 03 November 2006

• About 100 icebergs near New Zealand
• Greenhouse gases hit record levels

Thursday 02 November 2006

• Iceland may review commercial whaling if unable to export meat
• Record-sized waves in North Sea recorded during big storm
• Australia moots Barrier Reef parasol
• Wild elephants rampage on Indonesia's Sumatra Island
• Glorious genes: Aussie experts extol free sex

Tuesday 31 October 2006

• Sheepdogs to guard penguins in Australia

Monday 30 October 2006

• Scientist abuzz over 100 million year old bee
• Three rare rhinos killed in southern Nepal park

Sunday 29 October 2006

• Overfishing turns the Mediterranean into a barren sea
• Migratory birds keep their date with Himachal wetlands
• Bharatpur bird sanctuary studies water options

Friday 27 October 2006

• ADB, Beijing university set up climate change knowledge hub

Thursday 26 October 2006

• Scientists target water scarcity problem on Aegean islands

Tuesday 24 October 2006

• Iceland catches second fin whale

Monday 23 October 2006

• Iceland to sell whale meat to Japan as commercial resumes
• Pollution turns stretch of China's Yellow River red

Sunday 22 October 2006

• Iceland catches first whale after resuming commercial whaling

Wednesday 18 October 2006

• Scientists discover bacteria in undersea mud that eat methane
• Japan backs Iceland's resumption of commercial whaling
• Germany slams Iceland move to resume commercial whaling
• River that once protected ancient Thai capital now drowning it
• New Zealand deplores Iceland whaling

Tuesday 17 October 2006

• Iceland set to resume commercial whaling

Monday 16 October 2006

• Naturalists discover eight new orchid species in Papua New Guinea

Sunday 15 October 2006

• Scientist raises issue of elephants maimed by wire snares

Thursday 12 October 2006

• Surgery helps endangered bear become a dad

Wednesday 11 October 2006

• New strategy found to protect world's rarest dog from disease
• Thailand seizes endangered crocodiles smuggled from Cambodia

Monday 09 October 2006

• Prehistoric horseshoe crab under threat in Hong Kong

Saturday 07 October 2006

• EU Fisheries Commissioner calls for protection of tuna stocks

Thursday 05 October 2006

• G8 and G5 agree to take immediate action against global warming
• Centipedes invade Austrian village

Tuesday 03 October 2006

• Antarctic ozone hole reaches new record

Monday 02 October 2006

• Thick haze covers large parts of Indonesian Sumatra, Borneo

Saturday 30 September 2006

• Pollution signalling lights out for fireflies in Thailand

Friday 29 September 2006

• Kenya begins relocation of 250 elephants

Thursday 28 September 2006

• Sakhalin-2 oil and gas work causing great damage, warns ecologist

Sunday 24 September 2006

• Ugandan chimpanzees fall prey to witchcraft - report

Tuesday 19 September 2006

• Church bells ring for the godwits' return

Monday 18 September 2006

• Australia's cane toad killers warned of explosive danger
• Earth's most-diverse marine life found off Indonesia's Papua province

Wednesday 13 September 2006

• Cambodian police rescue wild pigs, monkeys and pythons

Tuesday 12 September 2006

• Stingrays killed to avenge Crocodile Hunter's death

Thursday 07 September 2006

• Scientists discover new tallest living tree
• Singapore Zoo says no more animals from Arctic
• Australia's pygmy goby back in the record books

Monday 04 September 2006

• New animal species found in South-East Asia's hilly limestone

Friday 01 September 2006

• Baby boom for world's rarest rhino species: WWF
• Thai vets succeed in artificial insemination of elephant
• Rare flowers bloom in Kerala hills

Wednesday 30 August 2006

• Animal rights group urges end to massive seal cull in Namibia
• Poachers arrested for posing as tourists to kill two white rhino

Monday 28 August 2006

• Uganda struggles to restock its rhinos

Sunday 27 August 2006

• Food for thought: fish can think

Thursday 24 August 2006

• Kangaroos to be put on the pill
• Australian scientists tackle shark cannibalism in the womb

Tuesday 22 August 2006

• Global network to stem corruption in water distribution
• Surgery on endangered monkey successful in Vietnam

Monday 21 August 2006

• Tiny seabird's annual 64,000 kilometre trip documented
• Scientists develop flood-resistent rice variety

Sunday 20 August 2006

• Thai police to step up fight against wildlife trafficking

Friday 18 August 2006

• Breed the tiger to save it, says expert

Thursday 17 August 2006

• Pollution and overfishing killing East China Sea: report

Wednesday 16 August 2006

• Ugandan animal population beginning to recover from turbulent past
• This killer whale's the real deal

Tuesday 15 August 2006

• Environmentalists say European firms using stolen Indonesian wood

Thursday 10 August 2006

• Dutch orangutans to chat via internet with Indonesian counterparts

Monday 07 August 2006

• Expert: Lebanon oil slick kills turtles, ruins tourism business
• Zimbabwe poachers 'kill 9 black rhinos'
• Annual haze from Indonesia to go on for at least a decade
• Rabbits nibbling at sub-Antarctica
• Indonesian forests need 120 years to recover

Thursday 03 August 2006

• 'Catastrophic' Mediterranean pollution from Israeli attack

Wednesday 02 August 2006

• Yao Ming leads drive against shark's fin soup in China

Tuesday 01 August 2006

• Relentless heat blamed for mass fish kill in Moldova city lake
• Endangered turtles released into South China Sea for tracking

Monday 31 July 2006

• Parrots call their baby chicks by name, German experts say
• Fossils reveal predatory nature of Skippy's killer cousins

Saturday 29 July 2006

• Swiss spell out 'bear' necessities for living with nature

Thursday 27 July 2006

• Five million-year-old skull is discovered in northern Greece
• As world temperatures soar, climate change blamed

Monday 24 July 2006

• Vietnam repatriates orangutans to Indonesia
• Zimbabwe 'suspends ivory sales'

Sunday 23 July 2006

• Population at risk as permafrost melts, Swiss Government warns

Monday 17 July 2006

• Mammoths were blondes, red-haired and brunettes, German experts say

Sunday 16 July 2006

• Micro chips used to study behavior of Mekong's giant catfish

Saturday 15 July 2006

• Friends of whales score partial victory over US Navy in Pacific

Thursday 13 July 2006

• WWF blasts EU agriculture for increasing Mediterranean drought
• Worldwatch: Cell phone boom threatens primates in Congo

Wednesday 12 July 2006

• Climate change could put trees on Antarctica

Tuesday 11 July 2006

• Alpine glaciers could virtually vanish within 100 years - study

Monday 10 July 2006

• Thai scientist promotes dung-beetle farming

Friday 07 July 2006

• Norwegian whalers urged to cut short whaling season
• Chances poor for establishing bears in Austria, report says

Wednesday 05 July 2006

• Survey shows humpback whale numbers down

Saturday 01 July 2006

• Ecologists urge more vigorous efforts to protect apes

Friday 30 June 2006

• Research indicates mice can feel empathy

Thursday 29 June 2006

• Bush meat crisis threatens decimation of Africa's apes

Tuesday 27 June 2006

• Borneo snake shows its changing colours (Updated)

Saturday 24 June 2006

• Rare quail sighted in Assam after 75 years

Friday 23 June 2006

• World's oldest spider's web discovered in Spain
• World's oldest tortoise dies at 176 in Australia

Thursday 22 June 2006

• Wildlife activists to combat trafficking at Nathula Pass

Wednesday 21 June 2006

• Endangered box turtles die after being smuggled in crates
• International Whaling Commission evenly split as meeting ends

Tuesday 20 June 2006

• Report: Many uncounted giant pandas live in the wild

Monday 19 June 2006

• Norway funds secure seed bank
• Nordic countries divided over whaling decision
• New Zealand leader slams Japan over whales vote
• 26 percent decline in tiger habitation
• India to set up wildlife crime control bureau
• Japan, Norway achieve pro-whaling breakthrough

Sunday 18 June 2006

• Still no majority for commercial whaling at commission meeting

Friday 16 June 2006

• Whaling nations suffer setback in effort to overturn hunting ban
• Overfishing in oceans defeats conservation efforts, UN says

Thursday 15 June 2006

• Bush to make Hawaiian island chain world's largest marine sanctuary
• Japan increases whaling as demand for whale meat falls

Tuesday 13 June 2006

• Reconstructed original Neanderthal man has relaxed gaze

Monday 12 June 2006

• Reduction in cultivated plant species threatens food security

Friday 09 June 2006

• Fish perish in thousands in Ranchi lake
• Rare okapi returns to national park after a 50 year absence

Tuesday 06 June 2006

• Life of twice 'rescued' Cambodian orangutan hangs in balance
• All-male plot to tackle Australia's pesky cane toads
• Gujarat records rise in leopard, sloth bear population

Monday 05 June 2006

• Climate change affects million living in desert lands: UN
• Environmental problems cost China 200 billion dollars a year
• 1.5 million saplings in quest of clean and green Delhi

Sunday 04 June 2006

• Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat want 'lion' share

Thursday 01 June 2006

• The world's last mountain gorillas enjoy a baby boom
• Rhino, tiger populations in western Nepal decline due to warfare

Wednesday 31 May 2006

• Israeli scientists find eight new species in underground ecosystem (Roundup)

Tuesday 30 May 2006

• Butterfly plague threatening Spain

Monday 29 May 2006

• Scientists say male zebras can turn ugly in zoos

Wednesday 24 May 2006

• A frantic search for piranhas goes ahead in Ukraine
• British insurance company to 'protect' Bavarian brown bear

Tuesday 23 May 2006

• Japan sends another fleet of whaling ships for research
• Piranhas are discovered in Ukrainian lake

Monday 22 May 2006

• Germany orders bullet for first bear on loose in 170 years

Thursday 18 May 2006

• Ancestors of humans, chimpanzees, may have interbred (Roundup)

Wednesday 17 May 2006

• Abandoned pythons plague Everglades park

Monday 15 May 2006

• Thai scientists dampen fever over 'alien droppings'

Saturday 13 May 2006

• Robot with fins swims like a fish

Friday 12 May 2006

• Buddhists urged not to free animals in Singapore's nature reserves

Thursday 11 May 2006

• New monkey species found in Tanzania already endangered
• New Japanese firm to market whale meat as healthy food

Monday 08 May 2006

• Bush-meat monkeys saved by US zoos
• FAO engaged in Pacific island's rats versus Godzillas Crabs battle
• Freed giant panda faces fight to survive rigors of modern China
• Japanese government to ban cars to protect Hokkaido lake

Thursday 04 May 2006

• Genetics are forever, warns Canadian farmer
• Sandstorms sound alarm for China on environment

Wednesday 03 May 2006

• UN food agency concerned at loss of wild banana species in India

Saturday 29 April 2006

• Ape rights movement questions barrier between man and animal

Friday 28 April 2006

• China releases captive-bred panda to the wild

Thursday 27 April 2006

• Zambian villagers blast authorities over elephant problem

Wednesday 26 April 2006

• Chernobyl radiation no problem - almost - for Mother Nature
• Spain may grant 'rights' to great apes
• Brown bear released in French woods despite loud protests

Friday 21 April 2006

• The Galapagos Islands are a 'window on evolution' for German ecologists

Tuesday 18 April 2006

• New Zealand says Japan could control world whale body

Wednesday 12 April 2006

• New Zealand's giant snails lose a battle with miners,

Sunday 09 April 2006

• China to set up sanctuary for endangered white dolphins

Saturday 08 April 2006

• Pakistan wildlife surveys Indus Blind dolphin

Friday 07 April 2006

• Greenpeace seeks to block Amazon soya shipment to Netherlands

Wednesday 05 April 2006

• Sumatran elephants face extinction in Indonesia
• EU, US consumers duped into buying timber stolen from Papua forests

Thursday 30 March 2006

• UN biodiversity conference has few results; marine reserves launched

Wednesday 29 March 2006

• UN conference: New marine reserves for Pacific and Caribbean
• Greenpeace highlights China's role in forest devastation
• Greenpeace wants Britain to aid Indonesia to halt forest destruction
• Birdwatchers flock to London street to admire American robin

Tuesday 28 March 2006

• Jane Goodall reflects on chimps, kids and conservation

Monday 27 March 2006

• Nations debate new steps to protect world's species

Friday 24 March 2006

• Elephants found chained in forest on Sumatra

Wednesday 22 March 2006

• Amazon rain forest threatened by lax law enforcement

Monday 20 March 2006

• Chimpanzees communicate through hand gestures, scientists say
• Japan may lose symbolic cherry trees in 10 years

Saturday 18 March 2006

• UN environmental meeting aims to slow species loss
• UN to save ancient holy sites in biodiversity effort

Monday 13 March 2006

• New Zealand may protect great white sharks

Sunday 12 March 2006

• Underwater ant discovered in Australia
• Two more Sumatran wild elephants founded dead

Thursday 09 March 2006

• Dead Sea, the world's saltiest lake, is drying up

Monday 06 March 2006

• Australian frog gives mosquitoes the slip
• Scottish nature researcher says Nessie was an elephant

Saturday 04 March 2006

• Brazil OKs Amazon logging, move greeted by environmentalists

Friday 03 March 2006

• Global action to save Bialowieza - Europe's last old-growth forest

Wednesday 01 March 2006

• Bear population booms thanks to garbage in California

Monday 27 February 2006

• Australia's Barrier Reef: here today, gone tomorrow

Sunday 26 February 2006

• Africa's lions could die out in a decade, study has warned

Thursday 16 February 2006

• Aussie toads go for gold
• Millions of butterflies flutter around Johannesburg

Wednesday 15 February 2006

• Experts mystified by bird flu in Baltic

Tuesday 14 February 2006

• Sniffer dogs help to rescue forests from beetle attack

Wednesday 08 February 2006

• Crested dinosaur fossils might be earliest tyrannosaur
• Swedish female penguins fail to seduce homosexual Humboldt penguins
• Traditional chief appeals for help keeping elephants at bay

Friday 03 February 2006

• Oil spill wreaks havoc on marine life in central Philippines

Saturday 28 January 2006

• Singapore team told to delay 'Bigfoot' trip to Malaysia

Wednesday 25 January 2006

• The incredible shrinking lake - Africa's receding Lake Chad

Tuesday 24 January 2006

• Chimpanzee's closest relatives are humans, scientists say

Friday 20 January 2006

• Whale gets close to Big Ben and parliament in London

Thursday 19 January 2006

• Hong Kong customs seizes 900 kilos of endangered-turtle shells

Wednesday 18 January 2006

• 17 nations urge Japan to stop whaling

Tuesday 17 January 2006

• Melting ice erodes foothold for Canadian polar bears

Thursday 12 January 2006

• China defends bear bile farming after E.U. calls for ban

Wednesday 11 January 2006

• New Zealand air force watching Japanese whaling

Tuesday 10 January 2006

• Primatologist Jane Goodall to get UNESCO medal
• Southeast Asia's first giant anteater born in captivity

Monday 09 January 2006

• Tigers to get photo identity cards in India
• Australia urged to thwart Japanese whaling
• Greenpeace vows to continue whaling protest

Sunday 08 January 2006

• Greenpeace boat collides with Japanese ship in anti-whaling action

Saturday 07 January 2006

• Purrfect - Garfield's family tree mapped out

Thursday 05 January 2006

• Carpathian wild life now under protection by convention, U.N. says

Sunday 01 January 2006

• Mass whale deaths in New Zealand

Saturday 24 December 2005

• Forests under threat from illegal logging in Cameroon

Thursday 22 December 2005

• Greenpeace clashes with Japanese whalers

Wednesday 21 December 2005

• Norway increases minke whale quota in 2006 season
• Stranded New Zealand whales back at sea again
• New Zealand whales beach themselves a second time

Tuesday 20 December 2005

• Mass whale stranding on New Zealand beach
• Woolly mammoth, African elephant diverged 6-7 million years ago

Sunday 18 December 2005

• Mammoth genes resemble those of Asian elephant: scientists

Saturday 17 December 2005

• Environmental awareness rises on shores of Lake Victoria
• Toxic waste poisoning Somalia

Monday 12 December 2005

• Monkey numbers boom as human population declines in Hong Kong

Friday 09 December 2005

• Greenland overrun with reindeer

Tuesday 06 December 2005

• New species of carnivore found in Borneo: WWF says

Monday 05 December 2005

• Honey! Beetles just ate the bees

Thursday 01 December 2005

• Southeast Asian nations launch wildlife 'Interpol'
• Mammoth tusks fetch top dollar at Russian auction

Tuesday 22 November 2005

• Rain forest depletion leaves it looking like Swiss cheese

Saturday 19 November 2005

• Sweeping Darwin exhibition opens amid U.S. debate on human origins

Wednesday 16 November 2005

• Chinese tigers train in Africa for life in the wild

Tuesday 15 November 2005

• Grizzly bears taken off U.S. endangered species list

Monday 14 November 2005

• Deforestation slowing down, but still at alarming rate, FAO says
• Bears go promiscuous to save babies, says researcher

Sunday 13 November 2005

• Galapagos fire threatens unique forest
• Kenya barters wildlife heritage to Thailand

Tuesday 08 November 2005

• Japan pursues research on whales despite international protest

Monday 07 November 2005

• Fleas' knees intrigue Aussie scientists

Friday 04 November 2005

• Greenpeace apologizes for damaging Philippine reef

Thursday 03 November 2005

• The Danube: 2,860 kilometres of wetland - all under threat

Tuesday 01 November 2005

• Norwegian whalers catch 639 minke whales in 2005 season
• Greenpeace fined in Philippines for damaging coral reefs

Sunday 30 October 2005

• Australia's iconic dingo joins endangered list

Saturday 22 October 2005

• Endangered Asiatic lions in India may get second home

Wednesday 19 October 2005

• Amazon drought causes massive deaths of fishes

Friday 14 October 2005

• Jurassic pines offered as potted history

Friday 19 August 2005

• Giant Panda Cub First Exam

Monday 25 July 2005

• Scientists seek explanation for mysterious pelican deaths

Friday 22 July 2005

• Caterpillars catch snails with silk, then don their shells

Sunday 17 July 2005

• Tuskless elephants thriving in southwest China, study finds

Friday 15 July 2005

• UNESCO committee adds seven new sites to World Heritage List

Thursday 14 July 2005

• South Africa gets seventh UNESCO heritage site
• Norwegian fjords included on world heritage list
• Three world heritage parks removed from danger list
• Spanish fishermen capture shark which frightened bathers
• Japanese students saving 'Nemo'

Wednesday 13 July 2005

• Congo park is among sites that may lose world heritage status
• Volcano heats up on Indonesia's most densely populated island
• World's oldest captive panda dies at China zoo
• Australian scientists tag whale sharks, find surprises
• Ten rhinos killed within three months

Tuesday 12 July 2005

• Global warming decimates Pacific plankton: Report
• Slimy slugs a 'catastrophe' for Czechs

Monday 11 July 2005

• Australian town split over its platypus colony
• 1,000 orangutans smuggled out of Indonesian province annually
• Listening devices from Vietnam war being used to track elephants

Saturday 09 July 2005

• Aborigines killed Australia's giant animals: study
• Malaysian wildlife officers seize 103 wok-bound pangolins

Thursday 07 July 2005

• Andean condor marks special day as it faces extinction
• Orangutans face extinction in Indonesia's Sumatra, Kalimantan

Wednesday 06 July 2005

• Scientists begin study of ancient American
• Croatia confirms great white shark presence in Adriatic
• Born Free suggests Thai zoo cancel animal order from Kenya
• Tassie tiger bounty goes begging in Australia

Tuesday 05 July 2005

• Dutch wind turbines claim 50,000 birds a year
• Mekong nations agree to create 'biodiversity corridors'
• Taiwan zoo caretaker killed by bear
• Australians greet new dolphin species
• Indonesian quake triggers tsunami-warning system in Phuket

Monday 04 July 2005

• Australians mourn changing coastline
• Thunderstorms bring flooding to Dutch coastal regions
• Undersea volcanic eruption confirmed at Japanese island
• Earth Day founder, former U.S. senator Gaylord Nelson dies at 89
• Conservationists fear new plant will endanger marine life

Sunday 03 July 2005

• Severe floods kill endangered Asiatic lion

Wednesday 29 June 2005

• Belarus government warns on growing beaver numbers
• Bats and cheese share disused Danish limestone mines

Tuesday 28 June 2005

• FAO calls for wider use of natural pesticide against Desert Locusts
• Adopt-a-reef project aimed at at saving corals

Monday 27 June 2005

• British government adviser: Global warming greatest threat to wild
• Well-meaning fishermen giving fish the kiss of death

Friday 24 June 2005

• Under-fire Disney takes shark's fin off menu at Hong Kong park
• Whaling commission ends meet, saves whales