ENVIRONMENT

Environment Agency issues flood alerts to 86 areas across UK and warns residents to be prepared.

Natural climatic changes such as El Nino have stalled the growth of coral reefs for nearly 2,500 years.

Australia and New Zealand join WWF and Greenpeace against plans, which they declare are 'commercial whaling in drag'.

University of Manchester report warns that global warming will lead to rocketing food costs as crops die and livestock suffer.

Japan, Norway and Iceland among countries block long-running campaign at International Whaling Commission vote.

Climatic change could nearly wipe out the existing population of the leatherback turtles by exacerbating the existing threats to the species, new research has mentioned.

A seaweed species considered a threat to the healthy growth of coral reefs in Hawaii may possess the ability to produce substances that could one day treat human diseases, a new study led by scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego reveals.

Greenhouse gas emissions being cut at a quarter of the speed needed in order to win climate fight, warns climate change watchdog.

A controversial gas extraction method called fracking which triggered two earthquakes near Blackpool last year should not cause any tremors or water contamination if proper regulation standards are employed.

A man in his 60s dies after being swept away by floodwater near Ludlow, Shropshire, West Mercia Police say.

WWF and Traffic voice support as Gabon president Ali Baba lit a pyre of more than 4,000 Kilos of Ivory blocked from illegal trade in Asia.

The algorithm is modelled in such a way that it takes into account three major phenomena with regard to the pollutants - diffusion, convection and reaction.

The Kermadec Ridge, which contains about 50 submarine volcanoes, extends almost 1,500 km to the edge of the New Zealand EEZ, northeast of the Kermadec Islands.

Conservationists say Lonesome George was last remaining member of his species on La Pinta.

He says already levels of CO2 have exceeded 400 parts per million while the tipping point is 450 parts per million.

Cougar, or the mountain lions of the Americas, have shown a significant increase in their population in the past 20 years, overturning the declining trend of over 100 years, a new study reveals.

Australia is proposing largest network of marine parks in the world to shield most vulnerable underwater ecosystems.

Study says the pre-historic fish, Acanthodes bronni, was the common ancestor of all jawed vertebrates including humans.

Nitrogen pollution is harming carnivorous plants like fly traps, study by researchers from Loughborough University and funded by the National Environment Research council shows.

A young humpback whale washed ashore injured by a heavy nylon line entangled in its mouth at a beach in White Rock, British Columbia on Tuesday morning.

A host of WWF's high profile personalities including English model Jo Wood, footballer Graeme Le Saux and British interior designer Kelly Hoppen has taken part in a special online auction.

Met Office issues amber alert after some areas received more than two inches of rain - the average amount for the entire month of June - in just 12 hours.

Discovery by scientists led by Gareth Fraser of the University of Sheffiel gives new clues about how such unique structures can evolve.

Leaders from the European Commission's Joint Research Centre and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration sign landmark deal that will further strengthen cooperative science activities in the areas of climate, weather, oceans and coasts.

Team of scientists from Chile, Canada, Finland, the United Kingdom, Spain and US say planet earth is fast moving towards doomsday.

Report recommends huge private sector investments in energy infrastructure for the UK to decarbonise its economy and energy system.

Nearly 100 species of birds in the Amazon are at the highest ever risk of extinction, according to a recent report by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

Warming Arctic climate has resulted in shrubs in the Arctic tundra turning into trees in just a few decades creating patches of forest which, if replicated across the tundra, would significantly accelerate global warming.

Regeneration Project ratings especially high for economic benefits of protecting environment.