The fossils of five hitherto unknown bizarre-looking crocodiles which roamed the world 100 million years ago have been unearthed in the Sahara desert, US scientists revealed Thursday.

Australia said it was "deeply disappointed" after a fleet of Japanese whaling ships set out to kill hundreds of the giant ocean mammals on their annual hunt.

World Bank chief Robert Zoellick said Wednesday it was critical for indigenous people to be included in climate change talks, saying they were among groups most affected by global warming.

Together with partner organizations nationwide, Smart Communications, Inc. has exceeded its 2009 target of planting 300,000 seedlings and propagules in selected areas.

The disasters drove home the point that there is an urgent necessity for individuals, groups and organizations both public and private to work together towards a sustainable environment.

Consumer campaigns to protect threatened fish species have failed, researchers warned Tuesday in a report underscoring the need for alternative ways to save threatened marine species.

With less than three weeks left before the UN climate showdown in Copenhagen, hopes are pinned on the United States, which is keeping everyone guessing on when — or if — it will declare its hand.

Japanese marine researchers said Tuesday they had found and successfully filmed a young coelacanth -- a rare type of fish known as "a living fossil" -- in deep water off Indonesia.

Every night, Mrs Wang finds herself shuttered in her northwest Beijing apartment because of the stench from the nearby dump.

Somali livestock farmers who have converged massively on the port of Berbera after losing all their animals said that this year's drought is the worst in ten years.

Two revolutionary companies, Falcon Waterfree Phils., Inc. and First Envirotech Corporation, launched their partnership last Friday, November 13 at the Lancaster Hotel, Mandaluyong City.

Half a million people die prematurely in Asia every year because of air pollution, while climate change, which is partly caused by air pollutants and greenhouse gases, has been recently manifesting its severe impact in our country’s weather.

Asia-Pacific leaders on Sunday buried hopes a key UN meeting next month would forge a binding pact to combat climate change, saying talks would drag on well past the Copenhagen meeting.

A blood-orange blob the size of a small refrigerator emerged from the dark waters, its venomous tentacles trapped in a fishing net.

Environmentalists warned bluefin tuna was on its way to extinction after a international meeting of fishery ministry officials trimmed catch quotas but upheld continued hauls of the fish, prized in sushi dishes.

Logging and agribusiness are increasingly threatening environmental destruction in Indonesia's Papua region, one of the world's last vast wildernesses, local leaders and scientists said Thursday.

The World Council of Churches on Thursday called on churches around the world to ring their bells 350 times during the Copenhagen climate change summit on December 13 as a call to action on global warming.

Brazil's sprawling Amazon jungle this year lost 7,000 square kilometers (2,700 square miles) of rain forest, a huge area but also a whopping 45 percent drop from 2008 losses, an official reported Thursday.

China should cut its carbon intensity by four to five percent each year from 2005 baseline levels, state media reported Thursday, citing a proposal by a leading government-led think tank.

Nearly 40 years after it was pushed to the edge of extinction by pesticide use, habitat loss and hunting, the brown pelican was Wednesday taken off the endangered species list, US officials said.