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The Independent Mountain glaciers are melting faster now than at any time in the past 5,000 years because of an unprecedented period of global warming, a study has found. Ice cores taken from mountains as far apart as the Andes in South America and the Himalayas in Asia have revealed how climate change is leading [...]

forests.org Source: Copyright 2006, Independent One of Britain’s most precious ocean wildlife sites has been hit by an eight-mile fuel slick. A clean-up operation is under way today at an environmentally sensitive area off the north Wales coast after waste fuel, thought to be from an industrial site, leaked into the sea. Environmentalists fear the [...]

MSNBC Weighing in on the highest profile debate about global warming, the nation’s premier science policy body on Thursday voiced a “high level of confidence” that Earth is the hottest it has been in at least 400 years, and possibly even the last 2,000 years. A panel convened by the National Research Council reached that [...]

Associated Press The world’s deserts are under threat as never before, with global warming making lack of water an even bigger problem for the parched regions, a U.N. report released Monday said. : : Most of the 12 desert regions whose future climate was studied face a drier future, the report said. Experts predicted that [...]

Independent Online : The banded demoiselle is one of Britain’s largest damselflies – an insect type similar to the dragonfly. In the past it was mainly confined to southern England, but numbers went into steep decline towards the end of the last century as agricultural development took its toll. Now, the insect is heading northwards, [...]

AsiaOne AN INDONESIAN boat captain was jailed for five months and fined $20,000 yesterday for transporting more than 2,000 endangered turtles without a valid export permit. : : Sustrisno was arrested at the Jurong Fishing Port on Tuesday with 72 crates containing 2,520 live South Asian Box turtles, which he was shipping from Sumatra to [...]

BBC Arctic sea level has been falling by a little over 2mm a year – a movement that sets the region against the global trend of rising waters. A Dutch-UK team made the discovery after analysing radar altimetry data gathered by Europe’s ERS-2 satellite. It is well known that the world’s oceans do not share [...]

WWF A motion-triggered camera trap set up in a remote jungle has captured the first-ever photo of a rhino in the wild on the island of Borneo, the Sabah Wildlife Department and WWF announced today. The rhino is believed to be one of a population of as few as 13 individuals whose existence was confirmed [...]

WCS The newly discovered Kipunji monkey has recently been reclassified as a new genus, making this the first new monkey genus discovered in over 83 years. Found only in the Southern Highlands of Tanzania, the Kipunji monkey is extremely rare, with only 500 individuals estimated in the wild. Photos from WCS The threats to the [...]

BBC The shark resembles a common species called the scalloped hammerhead but has not yet been classified or named. US researchers say the animal appears to be rare, breeding only in waters off the South Carolina coast. They believe the shark is at risk of extinction and conservation efforts are needed to protect females when [...]