ENVIRONMENT

The presence of four billion plastic debris in a square kilometre of deep oceans indicates the potential for damage to marine life and the ecosystem.

Beavers add 800 million kg of methane to the atmosphere every year.

Photographers return to some of the worst hit sites in Indonesia and Thailand to see how they have recovered from the tsunami.

Pollutants released in Mecca during Hajj reach dangerously high levels.

With climate policy pledges falling short of required number, a study shows how climate finance can bring a more comprehensive approach.

A study makes a case for why pregnant women should avoid redoing homes, especially their floor coverings.

Satellite and aerial data show that the Greenland ice sheet is melting faster than thought and shows that models are too simplistic in predicting the future.

Rayleigh Jet technique could help offset the effects of carbon emissions

With no binding terms and a vague language, the Lima action plan does nothing to steer the world away from its present road to climate disasters.

Nature magazine has sounded the alarm on the way that humans are forcing a vast number of species to vanish

After dropping and replacing many phrases, Lima climate draft finally sees nations agree terms for reducing emissions.

Gap in data means threat to species is calculated taking into account hardly 4% of species alive on Earth.

Construction of underwater turbines in Pentland Firth should be complete by 2016.

A tanker carrying 350,000 litres of oil collided with another vessel threatening the Sundarbans sanctuary's wildlife.

US Secretary of State John Kerry made an impassioned plea on Wednesday (December 11) for all nations to work for an ambitious UN deal next year to fight climate change, saying time was running out."Every nation, and I repeat this as we hear the debates going back and forth here, every nation has a responsibility to do its part if we're going to pass this test, and only those nations who step up and respond to this threat can legitimately lay claim to any mantle of leadership and global responsibility," he said in a speech at United Nations talks in Lima that are trying to sketch out elements of a draft 190-nation deal due in Paris in late 2015 to curb rising world greenhouse gas emissions.

Developing nations led by India are insisting on rich nations doing more by way of reducing emissions and providing assistance.

Pythons and some venomous snakes found in larger sizes across New South Wales.

Peruvian government to press charges against 20 environmental activists accused of harming UN World Heritage site.

Five million litres of crude oil spilled in Israeli desert could take years to fully clean up.

UNEP launches voluntary coalition to highlight work done in developing nations to cut emissions.

With only six northern white rhinos left in the world, and three incapable of natural reproduction, the species could soon be extinct.

A study has for the first time analysed and concluded that carbon soot is discolouring the Taj Mahal.

Experts estimate the total weight of plastic in Earth's oceans.

Making way to the more socially dominant cat, leopards are being forced to adapt in the face of tiger conservation.

Falling back on poverty and development priorities, India has called for continuing the common but differentiated responsibilities practised during the Kyoto protocol.

Methane equivalent to oil spilled by Deepwater is being released every year off the coast of the US by warming ocean waters.

Aerial photos of villages on Samar island show power of Typhoon Hagupit that slammed into the Philippines.

A selection of entries for next year's Sony World Photography Awards.

With an eye on China, Australia has sought maximum mitigation efforts from biggest emitters of greenhouse gases.