NEW YORK - City blocks boasting plenty of trees aren't only more pleasing to the eye; they may be healthier for children's lungs, according to research conducted in New York City.

ATLANTA - Tornadoes killed at least 22 people and injured hundreds as they ripped through communities in the central and south-eastern United States over the weekend.

SALMON, Idaho - US fire managers are forecasting a grim year for blazes in drought-plagued Western states, just weeks after a premature start to the Southwest's wildfire season.

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese authorities arrested one person on a charge of inciting subversion and warned or detained five for their roles in a protest in the southwest against plans for a petrochemical project, local media reported on Monday.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Forty years after he helped rescue the world from growing famine and a deepening gloom over the future of food supplies, Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan is once again agitating for revolution -- this time a perpetual one.

A search for geriatric buttercups is under way to enable scientists to work out the age of Britains meadows.

The number of grants to people fitting green energy systems in their homes has halved, the BBC has learned.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Arctic ice is melting fast and the area covered by ice sheets in ocean could shrink this summer to the smallest since 1978 when satellite observation first started, Japanese scientists warned in a report.

Forty years after he helped rescue the world from growing famine, and with a deepening gloom over the future of food supplies, Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan is once again agitating for an agricultural revolution - this time a perpetual one.

Attempts to reintroduce a species of fish to British rivers have received a setback from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

(DUBLIN ) - Earthworms provide services to Ireland worth over 700 million euros (108 million dollars) a year, according to a government-commissioned study on Monday.

Government plans for a proposed eco-town in south Warwickshire are not being backed by the local council.

With the UK's biggest environmental exhibition just weeks away edie takes a look at what's on offer at SustainabilityLive!

Labour Lord Chris Smith is to take over the reins as chairman of the Environment Agency in July.

The UK is still unprepared to cope with floods such as those seen last summer, MPs have said.

The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has reached a record high, according to new figures that renew fears that climate change could begin to slide out of control

PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) - Republican John McCain pledged to take the lead in combating global climate change if elected president in a speech that set him apart from the policies of President George W. Bush.

As the global population increases, it gets harder to curb greenhouse gas emissions. Simple answer: Control the population

LONDON - A new study suggesting a possible lull in manmade global warming has raised fears of a reduced urgency to battle climate change.

A UN special task force on the world food crisis sweeping the globe met for the first time on Monday with the aim of designing an action plan to combat high prices and food shortages.

Key facts and figures on the deforestation of the Amazon and the main causes.

NEW YORK - US environment group The Nature Conservancy said on Friday it will appoint Goldman Sachs' green guru as its new president and chief executive.

Bill Thompson on hi-tech ways to be greener

The mayor withdraws a legal challenge to a desalination plant in a deal that hopes cut traffic congestion.

More than 40 developing countries have recently approached United Nations officials to express interest in starting nuclear power programs, the Washington Post reported on Monday.

TEL AVIV - The head of an Israeli-backed electric car project estimated on Sunday that its partner, the Renault-Nissan alliance, would likely invest $500 million to $1 billion in the swappable-battery electric cars.

Knotweed afflicted developers faced with delays to construction due to slow herbicide treatment methods or huge costs associated with dig and dump can now benefit from Environet's new Xtract method. Nic Seal explains:

Residents near a Kent port are concerned about plans to store a farm fertiliser which can also be used in bombs.

WALES is set to enjoy hours of sunshine and the hottest temperatures so far this year for much of the rest of the week, weather forecasters said last night.

Reaching out to both independents and green-minded social conservatives, the Republican presidential candidate said Monday that global warming was undeniable and that the United States must take steps to bring it under control while adhering to free-market principles.

John McCain calls for free-market principles and engagement with China and India to reduce global-warming emissions, signalling that environmental issues will play a part in November

Senator John McCain called for a mandatory limit on greenhouse gas emissions in the United States.

New data shows concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has reached a record high

A new environmental grant is announced for companies wanting to invest in green technologies.

COLOGNE, Germany - Russia may decide to hold onto its greenhouse gas emissions rights under the Kyoto Protocol, at least until the details of a successor treaty are clearer, a Russian expert said.

Refineries in China and nearby countries appear to have escaped largely unscathed from a magnitude 7.5 earthquake that struck southwestern China on Monday and was felt as far away as Thailand, industry sources said.

A senior Japanese official on Monday criticised calls to introduce a cap-and-trade plan for greenhouse gas emissions, saying that the country's own "sectoral" approach was gaining support.

TOKYO - Japan, the world's fifth biggest polluter, will announce a target next month for cutting domestic greenhouse gas emissions by 60-80 percent from current levels by 2050, media reported on Sunday.

British Gas-owner Centrica is looking at the possibility of tabling a solo bid for nuclear power firm British Energy.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Monday named as his new energy minister Sergei Shmatko, the head of the state-run nuclear firm Atomstroiexport, which is building Iran's first nuclear power plant.

The first US military flight carrying aid for Burmese cyclone victims has flown in from neighbouring Thailand. The Americans now hope to send in two more.

ENVIRONMENT Minister Jane Davidson has joined green campaigners to launch an offensive on what they call myths about wind power.

Visa restrictions aren't the only hurdles facing aid groups scrambling to provide relief after Myanmar's cyclone -- they're also up against plain economics.

A record amount of a Cambridgeshire city's rubbish is now being recycled instead of going to landfill.

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Thousands of Neapolitan protestors took to the streets of their southern Italian city on Monday to protest a new landfill site, the latest twist in a long-running garbage crisis.

Science & environment: Zero-carbon homes of the future will self-generate most of the energy they use, says report

Zero-carbon homes of the future should self-generate vast majority of energy they use, says GBC's report

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A new company hopes drivers will kick the oil habit by brewing ethanol at home that won't spike food prices.

CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South Africa moved on Thursday to curb coastal property developments to help protect vast stretches of coastline from environmental damage.