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Arctic sea ice coverage appears to have reached its lowest extent for the year and the second-lowest amount recorded since the dawn of the satellite era, according to observations from the NASA-supported National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado in Boulder.

The presidential candidates will soon receive a briefing from our nation's Intelligence Community with the upcoming 'Global Trends 2025', an overview of international factors that will shape our world and our place in it. Dr. Thomas Fingar, the chairman of the National Intelligence Council, recently gave a preview of the key findings. It is not a cheery picture.

Check out these maps that depict country size in relation to their environmental impact...

Student Max Robson, an amateur inventor, built his prototype using rubbish collected from bins including an old bike frame and wheel bearings, the magneto from a Vespa, a battery from a Ford Fiesta and bits of wood to create a wind turbine.

Of nearly 2,000 Americans responding to a survey, zero percent say they favor lifting import tariffs on Brazilian ethanol made from sugar cane. But without Brazil, can America meet its target of a 20% drop in gas consumption over ten years?

Swiss schoolteacher doing his part to change the world pulled his "Solartaxi" up to the curb on July 22 at UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, the latest stop in his 50,000-kilometer, around-the-world drive to draw international attention to the present-day potential of alternative energy sources. - James Pazzaglia

World's top 10 consumers of oil. USA is at the top.

Nothing could be as much a mirror of poor people’s food plight today as Thai farmers reportedly conducting armed vigils in their rice fields at night to prevent thieves from reaping the crop.

Want to make a difference in the health of the planet, but don't know where to start? Check out the Be The Change Program, which brings together people from across the spectrum to show you how, and help give a frame to your enthusiasm.

The rebuilt New York World Trade Center will be powered cleanly by four UTC Power hydrogen fuel cells and other sources of renewable energy such as offsite wind turbines.

I search through various news sources every day to bring readers the latest news pertaining to the environment. And as much as I try to be unbiased or non-judgmental, I just couldn’t believe it when I saw the Yahoo! News headline “Environmentally Friendly Bombs Planned.”

We are all becoming heavier and it is a global responsibility [...] a slimmer population would lower demand for fuel for transportation and for agriculture...

The world can reach a significant new climate change pact by the end of 2009 if current talks keep up their momentum, the head of the United Nations climate panel said on Sunday.

The United Nations began negotiations on a sweeping new pact in March after governments agreed last year to work out a treaty to succeed the Kyoto Protocol by the end of next year.

So I know there has been allot of talk about grain shortage and rising food cost in the news lately so I thought today would be a great day to talk about how your diet can help the environment. World Vision is having an extreme shortage of food due to rising cost and will have cut 1.5 million people from their roster of 7.5 million they fed last year, one-third of them are children who rely on the organization’s aid to survive. Quite a startling statistic!

A new project financed by the government of Norway and the Global Environment Facility will have inmates at an African prison working towards purifying human waste and producing biogas to reduce carbon emissions.

Tribal and community representatives from around the world will address Rio Tinto's annual meeting and argue that the mining group's claim that its operations are sustainable and fair is far from the truth.  Meanwhile, investors going to the BP annual meeting will be greeted by campaigners dressed as pirates, symbolising the company's attempt to "rob" Iraq of its oil through pressing the Baghdad administration to sign a new oil law.

The irony is extraordinary. World cereal stocks are at an all-time low, food-aid programmes have run out of money and millions face starvation. Yet wealthy countries persist with plans to use grain for petrol.

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Former Vice-President Al Gore and Irish rock singer Bono addressed the World Economic Forum on Thursday in Davos, Switzerland on tackling climate change and global poverty.

Fears of world recession briefly took a back seat Thursday at the World Economic Forum, where leaders from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq focused on how to establish security in their volatile regions.

A commercial version of the Taiwanese solar car that came in second place in the Australian World Solar Challenge this year may debut at an affordable price.

From New York to Costa Rica, from the first national park in China to a marine protected area in the South Pacific, these are the best of the best, the conservation success stories with the most impact for nature and people in 2007.

MIT student cyclists are using pedal power to run laptops and supercomputers in two different challenges.

Global warming, and the consequent rising seas and temperature, is biting through its share of the planet. Of the marine life – the fish, the weeds – the coral reefs are being killed by rising temperatures and the human contribution knows no bound. The marine treasures are being bleached out by dynamite fishing and cyanide poisoning as well – thanks to humans!

A solar taxi is traveling the world to call attention to global warming and offer solutions. By the time the trip is over the solar-hybrid vehicle will have traveled to 50 countries and 5 continents.

Unless the international community agrees to cut carbon emissions by half over the next generation, climate change is likely to cause large-scale human and economic setbacks and irreversible ecological catastrophes, a U.N. report said on Tuesday.

How ready is the world for sustainability? Is sustainability something that the average person really cares about?

Contrary to many expectations, the largest animal on Earth was not a dinosaur. The largest known to man was more than half the size of a blue whale. Here are the superlatives in terms of size for the wild.

An estimated 80% of life on earth depends on healthy oceans and coasts, but a new report states that Europe's coastal marine regions are largely degraded. So are we acting too late to save important coastal areas?