Planet Ark and the Carbon Trust have announced the launch of a Carbon Reduction Label scheme in Australia.
An El Nino weather pattern this year appears almost certain, according to the Bureau of Meteorology in a revised forecast.
Climate and rainfall, not land-clearing, have emerged as the main drivers of salinity in south-eastern Australia, according to NSW researchers.
A third of the world´s open-water sharks - including the great white and hammerhead - face extinction, according to a conservation survey that singles out overfishing as the main culprit.
A recent study found there is more carbon than expected in frozen soil near the poles, and it could add to climate warming if thawed.
Australian researchers have developed an eco-friendly way to clean up industrial odour using bacteria.
Ian Plimer's recent book Heaven and Earth has caused its fair share of controversy. Here, Mike Pope attacks what he perceives to be its fundamentally unscientific argument, claiming that science fiction has more claim to veracity than Professor Plimer's position.
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Scientists are working on a new generation of kinder, gentler pyrotechnics that produce less smoke and use fewer toxic metals.
Just as humans have learned to connect dark clouds with rain, so too have bacteria and yeast learned to use one event to predict the arrival of another.
ASK AN EXPERT: What makes dogs' noses and their sense of smell so powerful?
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16 top CEOs from China have attended a workshop at the UN Environment Programme headquarters to learn more about what the agency is doing in the Green Economy initiatives, combating climate change, international campaigns, green construction, reforestation and the green technology.
In an historic first, all five Executive Directors of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) gathered together in Glion, Switzerland for the Global Environmental Governance Forum on 29 June 2009 where they lent their voices to the global UN-led campaign to Seal the Deal on an effective climate agreement in Copenhagen this December. <br/> <br/> Add your voice to the Seal the Deal campaign by visiting www.sealthedeal2009.org
Key tools to help countries adapt to climate change will be developed at the World Climate Conference-3 (WCC-3), which will take place in Geneva from 31 August to 4 September. The meeting will bring together high-level decision-makers, scientists, policy-makers, and business leaders to initiate a Global Framework for Climate Services to boost climate adaptation.
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Gives a broad overview of biological and physical attributes of the Great Barrier Reef.