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Experts predict that tropical forests will mop up carbon emissions with more sprightly growth – new research indicates that the opposite may be coming true

Climate models, no matter how powerful, can never give a precise forecast of how greenhouse gases will warm the Earth, say researchers

Levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide are rising faster than climate models predict, prompting some scientists to call for an urgent overhaul of the IPCC

Ignoring the other causes for the complex conflicts in sub-Saharan Africa will only make matters worse, argues

A British expedition aims to do to walk - and swim - 2000 kilometres to the North Pole to help predict when the Arctic ice cap will disappear

Britains' claim on the Antarctic; Interviews with Martin Amis on Islam; and is Jonny Wilkinson obese? - the newsroom blogger reveals all from the morning meeting.

A British team, led by explorer Pen Hadow, plans to walk, and even swim, to the North Pole measuring ice thickness as it goes

A British team, led by explorer Pen Hadow, plans to walk, and even swim, to the North Pole measuring ice thickness as it goes

Could sinking millions of pipes into ocean save the planet from global warming, or will it just make matters worse?

The energy and food processing company hope to make biomass fuel work.

(Reuters) - The Bush administration hosts a summit for "major economies" on energy and climate change in Washington, starting on Thursday.

(Reuters) - This week's meetings in the United States on climate change are the latest in a series of decisions taken this year on an issue increasingly at the top of the international agenda:

Dell Inc. unveiled an environmental plan Wednesday that the computer maker said will make its operations carbon-neutral by 2008, a year earlier than it previously promised.

The Greens have attacked Labour's proposed emissions trading scheme, saying it amounts to a $1.2 billion subsidy for the dairy industry. Under the scheme, agriculture would not have to participate until 2013.

POWER shortages and high energy bills that are troubling the East African region could be reduced by embracing renewable energy, the East African Business Council Vice-Chairperson, has said.

A small community is given more than £40,000 to set up a renewable energy initiative.

The strong winds that blow across the Northern Plains have been chased over the past two years by a spate of politicians and entrepreneurs eager to exploit them as an energy alternative to fossil fuels.

ConocoPhillips has forged a partnership with agricultural processing giant Archer Daniels Midland Co. to develop technology to turn biomass from crops, wood or switchgrass into biocrude that can be refined into fuels, such as gasoline.

People want their leaders to move boldly to help the environment but give them dismal grades for their actions so far, according to a poll released Wednesday that highlighted rampant pessimism on the issue.

TWO huge wind turbines could tower over the West Gate Bridge in a Maribyrnong Council plan to make a statement about saving the environment.