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MSNBC Indonesia has so many islands it has not been able to count them all and is having a hard time finding names for them. : Officially there are about 17,000 islands, but Indonesia’s environment minister, Rachmat Witoelar, in January said the country could lose about 2,000 islands by 2030 if sea levels continued to [...]

The Independent Britain’s astounding April, the warmest on record, has produced an astounding effect in the natural world, with at least 11 species of butterfly making their earliest recorded appearances this spring in what will be seen as the most remarkable demonstration yet of the effects of climate change on Britain’s wildlife. : Of our [...]

The Independent The accelerating destruction of the rainforests that form a precious cooling band around the Earth’s equator, is now being recognised as one of the main causes of climate change. Carbon emissions from deforestation far outstrip damage caused by planes and automobiles and factories. The rampant slashing and burning of tropical forests is second [...]

reuters Human activities are wiping out three animal or plant species every hour and the world must do more to slow the worst spate of extinctions since the dinosaurs by 2010, the United Nations said on Tuesday. Scientists and environmentalists issued reports about threats to creatures and plants including right whales, Iberian lynxes, wild potatoes [...]

reuters Global warming is the top suspect for the disappearance of 17 amphibian species from Costa Rican jungles, scientists said on Tuesday, warning monkey and reptile populations were also plummeting. Five of the amphibian species were found only in Costa Rica, meaning their disappearance from the country’s jungles spells extinction, said Alvaro Herrero, a biologist [...]

MSNBC A Purdue University engineer and National Medal of Technology winner says he’s ready and able to start a revolution in clean energy. Professor Jerry Woodall and students have invented a way to use an aluminum alloy to extract hydrogen from water — a process that he thinks could replace gasoline as well as its [...]

MSNBC Extensive areas of snow melted in west Antarctica in January 2005 in response to warm temperatures, researchers reported in a new study, describing the melt as “the most significant” ever observed in the 30 years satellites have been used to track such changes. The affected areas encompass a combined area as big as California. [...]

Greenpeace Greenpeace activists have started construction on a replica of Noah’s Ark, 2,500 meters (8,200 feet) above sea level. Many people believe that Mount Ararat is the place where Noah’s Ark landed after the floods. The replica ark is designed to be a symbol of hope and dramatic plea to world leaders to take far-reaching [...]

reuters Canada’s vast forests should be protected much more than they are now to preserve wildlife and water and to fight global warming, a group of 1,500 scientists from around the world said on Monday. The scientists say Canada’s Boreal Forest, stretching from the Alaskan border and running north of the plains all the way [...]

CI One of the world’s largest and least studied freshwater turtles has been found in Cambodia’s Mekong River, raising hopes that the threatened species can be saved from extinction.Scientists from Conservation International (CI), World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the Cambodian Fisheries Administration, and the Cambodian Turtle Conservation Team captured and released an 11-kilogram (24.2-pound) female Cantor’s [...]