One of Australia's environmental wonders, the Great Barrier Reef, is at greatest risk from global warming than once thought, scientists said. An international team of scientists has found that

All of Austria's 91 glaciers shrank significantly last year by an average of nearly 13 metres, according to a report by the Austrian Alps Organisation in Innsbruck. The record shrinkage of 50 metres

U.S. government forecasters said global carbon emissions from energy sources would ease by the year 2010 as economic growth in areas such as Eastern Europe slowed. In a report to be released on

Illegal fishing threatens populations of the Patagonian toothfish in the Southern Ocean, challenging Australia s commitment to marine conservation

Competing goals of free trade and environmental protection puts the much awaited Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety indefinitely on hold

for they keep the rainforests' biodiversity high

Organic fertiliser-based agricultural management systems

German companies, EG Solar

The European Union's German presidency will call an emergency meeting of environment ministers unless diplomats agree quickly on a common strategy to limit greenhouse gases, EU sources said. "They

Scientist : The average global temperature has risen by half a degree this century and is estimated to rise between one and three degrees in the next century. According to climatologists, the sea