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The environmental group WWF, urged the Group of Eight industrialised ...

(WWF) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:13:18 GMT

(WWF) - The environmental group WWF, urged the Group of Eight industrialised nations to show global leadership by making a commitment to keep climate change in check at their summit next week. Echoing a call by German Chancellor Angela Merkel a day earlier, the WWF said the G8 summit in L'Aquila, Italy, must commit to keeping the rise in global average temperature "well below" two degrees Celsius.(WWF)

Activists fly a kite to protest against the cultivation of genetically ...

(AFP/DDP/File) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:48:24 GMT

(AFP/DDP/File) - Activists fly a kite to protest against the cultivation of genetically modified maize. France on Friday rejected a report by the European Union's food safety watchdog that declared a genetically modified strain of maize, banned in six EU countries, to be safe for health and the environment.(AFP/DDP/File)

Will Murphy, 7, inspects the teeth of a Theropod dinosaur at ...

(AFP/File) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:11:08 GMT

(AFP/File) - Will Murphy, 7, inspects the teeth of a Theropod dinosaur at an exhibition at the Melbourne Museum, 2008. Australian scientists hailed the country's most significant dinosaur discovery in decades on Friday after three new species were unearthed in a Queensland billabong.(AFP/File/William West)

A handout image released by the Australian Age of Dinosaurs ...

(AFP) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:11:08 GMT

(AFP) - A handout image released by the Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum of Natural History shows 'Banjo' Australovenator wintonensis. Australian scientists hailed the country's most significant dinosaur discovery in decades on Friday after three new species were unearthed in a Queensland billabong.(AFP/Travis Tischler)

Indian workers put up a mural depicting climate change outside ...

(AFP/File) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:01:43 GMT

(AFP/File) - Indian workers put up a mural depicting climate change outside the British High Commisssion in New Delhi, June 2009. India's foreign minister has called for an ambitious but fair greenhouse gas reduction target under a new climate treaty, saying any pact should not hinder the economic growth of developing countries.(AFP/File/Manan Vatsyayana)

A customer admires a Honda Motor's hybrid vehicle at a showroom ...

(AFP/File) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:05:11 GMT

(AFP/File) - A customer admires a Honda Motor's hybrid vehicle at a showroom in Tokyo. Japan's near-silent hybrid cars have been called dangerous by the vision-impaired and some users, prompting a government review on whether to add a noise-making device, according to an official.(AFP/File/Yoshikazu Tsuno)

Soay sheep are seen in France in 2004. Climate change has caused ...

(AFP/File) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:10:48 GMT

(AFP/File) - Soay sheep are seen in France in 2004. Climate change has caused a flock of wild sheep on a remote northern Scottish island to become smaller, according to an unusual investigation published on Thursday. The wild Soay sheep live on Hirta, in the St. Kilda archipelago in the storm-battered Outer Hebrides, and have been closely studied for nearly a quarter of a century.(AFP/File)

Workers of the Garona nuclear plant demonstrate, holding banners ...

(AFP/File) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:51:10 GMT

(AFP/File) - Workers of the Garona nuclear plant demonstrate, holding banners reading "Garona is safe" in front of the Moncloa Palace, residence of Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, in Madrid on June 26, 2009. Spain's government said it would allow the country's oldest nuclear reactor to operate beyond its intended 40-year lifespan, reversing a policy of gradually phasing out nuclear power.(AFP/File/Pedro Armestre)

An electric cable is attached to the side of a car. Renault-Nissan ...

(AFP/Getty Images/File) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:43:34 GMT

(AFP/Getty Images/File) - An electric cable is attached to the side of a car. Renault-Nissan will hold large-scale tests for its new electric cars in the Paris and Milan regions next year ahead of planned mass production from 2012, the Franco-Japanese auto group said Thursday.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Alex Wong)

A Royal Bengal tiger walks inside its cage at the Karachi zoo, ...

(AFP/File) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:30:57 GMT

(AFP/File) - A Royal Bengal tiger walks inside its cage at the Karachi zoo, in 2005. Police in southeastern Bangladesh arrested a man Thursday for beating an endangered Bengal tiger to death after it strayed into a village. The IUCN Red List estimates there are less than 2,500 Bengal tigers left in the world with as few as 200 of those in Bangladesh.(AFP/File/Aamir Qureshi)

This undated image released by Britain's National Archives Thursday, ...

(Canadian Press) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:24:51 GMT

(Canadian Press) - This undated image released by Britain's National Archives Thursday, July 2, 2009, shows a copy of the United States Declaration of Independence, which has been discovered at the National Archives in Kew, England. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/National Archives)

Spain's Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero speaks ...

(AFP/File) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:17:11 GMT

(AFP/File) - Spain's Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero speaks next to Dominican Republic's President Leonel Fernandez in May 2009. Spain will announce Thursday it will allow the country's oldest nuclear reactor to operate until 2013, two years beyond its intended 40-year lifespan, industry and environmental sources said.(AFP/File/Javier Soriano)

A Sumatran elephant (Elephant maximus Sumatranus) with her one ...

(AFP/File) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:15:45 GMT

(AFP/File) - A Sumatran elephant (Elephant maximus Sumatranus) with her one day old baby at Taman Safari in Bogor, seen here in 2003. An elephant calf has starved to death in Indonesia, the eighth endangered Sumatran elephant to have died in the wild since May. There are about 2,400 to 2,800 Sumatran elephants in Indonesia, of which 200 to 250 are in Riau, according to WWF.(AFP/File/Adek Berry)

A soldadinho-do-araripe, a bird from the family of Manakins ...

(AFP/Brazilian Environment Ministry/File) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:15:15 GMT

(AFP/Brazilian Environment Ministry/File) - A soldadinho-do-araripe, a bird from the family of Manakins is seen in Brasilia. The soldadinho-do-araripe is one of the species in critical danger of extinction. The world's paramount authority on species loss has warned that pledges to roll back the threat to biodiversity by 2010 were running into the sand.(AFP/Brazilian Environment Ministry/File/Ciro Albano)

Graphic on the Tasmanian devil and the southern corroboree tree ...

(AFP/Graphic) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:15:15 GMT

(AFP/Graphic) - Graphic on the Tasmanian devil and the southern corroboree tree frog, two species under threat of extinction in Australia.(AFP/Graphic/Martin Megino/Gal/Js)

Representatives at the 2008 UN-Convention on Biological Diversity ...

(DDP/AFP/File) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:15:15 GMT

(DDP/AFP/File) - Representatives at the 2008 UN-Convention on Biological Diversity address the closing press conference of the United Nations conference on biodiversity in Bonn, western Germany. The goal set by UN parties under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) to reduce biodiversity loss by 2010 "clearly will not be met," according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).(DDP/AFP/File/Henning Kaiser)

Australia has pledged 52 million dollars ($42 million) to improve ...

(James Cook University) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:15:36 GMT

(James Cook University) - Australia has pledged 52 million dollars ($42 million) to improve water quality on the Great Barrier Reef, which is coming under increasing threat from toxic chemicals and climate change.(James Cook University/Ho)

Chinese cyclists pass through thick pollution from a factory ...

(AFP) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:00:38 GMT

(AFP) - Chinese cyclists pass through thick pollution from a factory in Yutian.(AFP/Peter Parks)

The top 10 polluters by share of global emissions and population. ...

(AFP Graphics) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:00:38 GMT

(AFP Graphics) - The top 10 polluters by share of global emissions and population. China says it is "firmly" opposed to provisions in a new US clean energy bill that will make it easier to impose trade penalties on nations that reject limits to globe-warming pollution.(AFP Graphics)

A Lebanese carpenter makes a fishing boat at his workshop in ...

(AFP) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:54:09 GMT

(AFP) - A Lebanese carpenter makes a fishing boat at his workshop in the southern port city of Tyre. Over-fishing, pollution and dynamite fishing have all but wiped out marine life in the Mediterranean waters off the 220-kilometer-long (136-mile-long) Lebanese coast, leaving many of the country's estimated 8,000 fishermen destitute.(AFP/Joseph Eid)

Lebanese fishermen prepare their nets at the harbor of the southern ...

(AFP) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:54:09 GMT

(AFP) - Lebanese fishermen prepare their nets at the harbor of the southern port city of Tyre. Over-fishing, pollution and dynamite fishing have all but wiped out marine life in the Mediterranean waters off the 220-kilometer-long (136-mile-long) Lebanese coast, leaving many of the country's estimated 8,000 fishermen destitute.(AFP/Ramzi Haidar)

A cat walks past Lebanese fishermen making nets at the harbor ...

(AFP) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:54:09 GMT

(AFP) - A cat walks past Lebanese fishermen making nets at the harbor in the southern port city of Tyre. Over-fishing, pollution and dynamite fishing have all but wiped out marine life in the Mediterranean waters off the 220-kilometer-long (136-mile-long) Lebanese coast, leaving many of the country's estimated 8,000 fishermen destitute.(AFP/Joseph Eid)

Lebanese fishermen clean fresh fish in the southern port city ...

(AFP) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:54:09 GMT

(AFP) - Lebanese fishermen clean fresh fish in the southern port city of Tyre. Over-fishing, pollution and dynamite fishing have all but wiped out marine life in the Mediterranean waters off the 220-kilometer-long (136-mile-long) Lebanese coast, leaving many of the country's estimated 8,000 fishermen destitute.(AFP/Ramzi Haidar)

Jean-Yves Le Gall, Chairman and Chief Executive Office of Arianespace, ...

(AFP/File) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:45:50 GMT

(AFP/File) - Jean-Yves Le Gall, Chairman and Chief Executive Office of Arianespace, seen in April. A European rocket placed on the world's biggest commercial telecommunications satellite into geostationary orbit, launch operator Arianespace said.(AFP/File/Yoshikazu Tsuno)

The world's paramount authority on species loss has warned ...

(AFP/File) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:07:56 GMT

(AFP/File) - The world's paramount authority on species loss has warned that pledges to roll back the threat to biodiversity by 2010 were running into the sand. The goal set by UN parties under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) to reduce biodiversity loss by 2010 "clearly will not be met," according to Jean-Christophe Vie (pictured in 2007) of the International Union for Conservation of Nature.(AFP/File/Olivier Laban-Mattei)

Handout picture released by the Brazilian Environment Ministry ...

(AFP/MMA/File) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:51:43 GMT

(AFP/MMA/File) - Handout picture released by the Brazilian Environment Ministry showing a deforested area in the rain forest in southern Para state in 2008. Nearly 2,300 plant species are at risk of disappearing from flora-rich Brazil, according to an academic study released on Wednesday.(AFP/MMA/File/Jefferson Ruddy)

A salamander strolls over terrain. Scientists shed light on ...

(AFP/File) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:44:17 GMT

(AFP/File) - A salamander strolls over terrain. Scientists shed light on how the salamander, one of nature's great oddities, is able to regrow an amputated leg.(AFP/File/Valery Hache)

Kenya Prime Minister Raila Odinga listens during a session "The ...

(AFP/File) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:34:12 GMT

(AFP/File) - Kenya Prime Minister Raila Odinga listens during a session "The State of Africa" at the World Economic Forum in January 2009. Kenya on Wednesday unveiled extensive plans to invest in renewable energy, including free distribution of one million energy-saving light bulbs in exchange for ordinary bulbs.(AFP/File/Pierre Verdy)

A rainbow forms over a rainforest in Malaysia in 2007. Vegetation ...

(AFP/File) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:21:06 GMT

(AFP/File) - A rainbow forms over a rainforest in Malaysia in 2007. Vegetation helped save Earth from runaway cooling that would have encased the planet in ice, according to a study published on Wednesday.(AFP/File)

Astronomers on Wednesday said they had identified an intermediate ...

(AFP/NASA-HO/FIle) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:12:49 GMT

(AFP/NASA-HO/FIle) - Astronomers on Wednesday said they had identified an intermediate class of black hole that could explain how supermassive, light-sucking monsters develop in the heart of galaxies.(AFP/NASA-HO/FIle)

Libyan leader Moammer Kadhafi (L) meets Brazilian President ...

(AFP) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:24:22 GMT

(AFP) - Libyan leader Moammer Kadhafi (L) meets Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in Sirte, about 600 km (370 miles) east of Tripoli, on the sidelines of the 13th African Union summit of heads of state and government. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Wednesday promised to help Africa achieve a "green revolution" in agriculture, at the launch of a continental summit in Libya.(AFP/Mahmud Turkia)

Wildlife officials have foiled an apparent attempt to smuggle ...

(AFP/File) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:07:16 GMT

(AFP/File) - Wildlife officials have foiled an apparent attempt to smuggle rare 200-year-old trees out of the Philippines, the government said Wednesday. "Igem-dagat is included in the list of threatened species being protected by the government. Its trading is strictly regulated," Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Joselito Atienza, seen here in 2006, said.(AFP/File)

A view of the National War Monument on the Dam in Amsterdam ...

(AFP/POOL/File) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:07:02 GMT

(AFP/POOL/File) - A view of the National War Monument on the Dam in Amsterdam in 2006. The Dutch capital Amsterdam announced Wednesday a cash bonus of up to 1,000 euros (1,400 dollars) for residents who scrap their old cars to buy newer, environmentally friendly ones.(AFP/POOL/File/Olaf Kraak)

Seals are seen at Cape Cross seal reserve, some 430 kilometers ...

(AFP/File) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:06:28 GMT

(AFP/File) - Seals are seen at Cape Cross seal reserve, some 430 kilometers west of Windhoek in 2000. In a bid to save tens of thousands of baby seals being killed for their fur, Namibia animal rights activist are rushing to raise millions of dollars to buy out a fur company that buys the pelts.(AFP/File/Jutta Dobler)

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon (L) and Japanese Foreign Minister ...

(AFP/File) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:01:26 GMT

(AFP/File) - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon (L) and Japanese Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone in Tokyo on June 30, 2009. Ban Ki-moon has called for Japanese companies to help fight global warming through green investment and ambitious emission cut targets, a business lobby has said.(AFP/File/Kazuhiro Nogi)

Space Shuttle Endeavour is shown on launch pad 39A Wednesday, ...

(Canadian Press) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:41:18 GMT

(Canadian Press) - Space Shuttle Endeavour is shown on launch pad 39A Wednesday, July 1, 2009 at Cape Canaveral, Fla. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Orlando Sentinel, Red Huber

Downtown Vancouver is pictured on June 10, 2009. Canada ranks ...

(AFP/File) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:11:50 GMT

(AFP/File) - Downtown Vancouver is pictured on June 10, 2009. Canada ranks last among the Group of Eight (G8) industrialised nations for tackling climate change while Germany is top, the green group WWF and the German insurance giant Allianz reported on Wednesday.(AFP/File/Erica Berenstein)

A wild Sumatran rhino photographed by using a motion-triggered ...

(AFP/WWF/File) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:06:47 GMT

(AFP/WWF/File) - A wild Sumatran rhino photographed by using a motion-triggered camera in Borneo. Conservation group WWF said that the future of one of the world's rarest animals, the Borneo rhino, depends on action taken to protect the forest reserves where it lives.(AFP/WWF/File/Ross Jo)

A report said that the Group of Eight rich nations summit in ...

(AFP/File) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:43:25 GMT

(AFP/File) - A report said that the Group of Eight rich nations summit in Italy next week is likely to call on industrialised countries to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent by 2050.(AFP/File/Paul Ellis)

Actress Tippi Hedren (pictured in 2008), who adopted Michael ...

(AFP/Getty Images/File) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:35:28 GMT

(AFP/Getty Images/File) - Actress Tippi Hedren (pictured in 2008), who adopted Michael Jackson's two tigers at her Los Angeles area preserve, is urging animal lovers to mourn the late King of Pop by helping captive big cats. Hedren took in Jackson's tigers Thriller and Sabu in 2005 as the pop icon's life unraveled and he gave up his private zoo at Neverland.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Frederick M. Brown)

Denmark on Tuesday said negotiations on a new global climate ...

(AFP/File) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:42:00 GMT

(AFP/File) - Denmark on Tuesday said negotiations on a new global climate deal were proceeding "too slowly" and called for speeding up the process before a crucial UN summit in less than six months. "It is time for a frank and open dialogue so the participating countries can make clear their positions, their concerns," Danish Climate Minister Connie Hedegaard, seen here in May 2009, said.(AFP/File/Don Emmert)

This 2006 picture shows children playing in the water in southern ...

(AFP/File) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:21:10 GMT

(AFP/File) - This 2006 picture shows children playing in the water in southern Nigeria's Niger Delta. The pollution caused by half a century of oil extraction in Nigeria is one of the world's most disturbing examples of the curse of natural resources, a global rights lobby group said Tuesday.(AFP/File/Dave Clark)

Members of Amnesty International protest outside a Shell station ...

(AFP) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:21:10 GMT

(AFP) - Members of Amnesty International protest outside a Shell station in Paris. The pollution caused by half a century of oil extraction in Nigeria is one of the world's most disturbing examples of the curse of natural resources, a global rights lobby group said Tuesday.(AFP/Philipp Guelland)

The aftermath of an oil pipeline leak and subsequent fire in ...

(AFP/File) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:21:10 GMT

(AFP/File) - The aftermath of an oil pipeline leak and subsequent fire in the southern Nigerian village of Goi, in the Niger delta region, 2004. The pollution caused by half a century of oil extraction in Nigeria is one of the world's most disturbing examples of the curse of natural resources, a global rights lobby group said Tuesday.(AFP/File)

A fighter of The Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta ...

(AFP/File) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:21:10 GMT

(AFP/File) - A fighter of The Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND) is seen in the Niger Delta. The pollution caused by half a century of oil extraction in Nigeria is one of the world's most disturbing examples of the curse of natural resources, a global rights lobby group said Tuesday.(AFP/File/Pius Utomi Ekpei)

A picture taken in 2008 shows the western city of Mainz with ...

(AFP/DDP/File) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:08:32 GMT

(AFP/DDP/File) - A picture taken in 2008 shows the western city of Mainz with the Theodor-Heuss bridge leading over the Rhine river. The Rhine river between Germany and the Netherlands is on average three degrees warmer than 100 years ago, with power stations the main culprits, the German green group BUND said on Tuesday.(AFP/DDP/File/TORSTEN SILZ)

Production foreman Ron Toly visually inspects the carbon capturing ...

(Canadian Press) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:54:17 GMT

(Canadian Press) - Production foreman Ron Toly visually inspects the carbon capturing research facility near Redwater, Alberta on Friday, June 26, 2009. Here, in this open field under a blue Alberta sky, is the business end of what the energy industry hopes will be a crucial part of its plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and what the provincial government prays will get the world off its back. THE CANADIAN PRESS/John Ulan

Scientists arrange the bones of an estimated 200,000 year-old ...

(Canadian Press) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:52:12 GMT

(Canadian Press) - Scientists arrange the bones of an estimated 200,000 year-old giant elephant at Geology Museum in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia, Thursday, June 18, 2009. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Dita Alangkara

European Union Commissioner for Agriculture Mariann Fischer ...

(AFP/File) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:22:36 GMT

(AFP/File) - European Union Commissioner for Agriculture Mariann Fischer Boel of Denmarkin, seen here in May 2009, holds a press conference. Bendy cucumbers, knobbly carrots and other strangely shaped fruit and vegetables, long the source of jibes over EU micro-regulation, will be allowed back onto European supermarket shelves from Wednesday.(AFP/File/Dominique Faget)

A 'wonky' carrot pictured in a market in Herouville-St-Clair, ...

(AFP/File) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:22:36 GMT

(AFP/File) - A 'wonky' carrot pictured in a market in Herouville-St-Clair, Normandy, France. Bendy cucumbers, knobbly carrots and other strangely shaped fruit and vegetables, long the source of jibes over EU micro-regulation, will be allowed back onto European supermarket shelves this week.(AFP/File/Mychele Daniau)