BBC

Antarctic scientists are monitoring the slow birth of a giant iceberg. By Jonathan Amos

Revealed: environmental cost of continent's consumption. By Stephen Castle

Fundamentalism is hampering global efforts to tackle climate change, according to Britain's top scientist. By Helen Briggs

The United States' most senior general has defended the use of weapons containing white phosphorus in Iraq.

Birleşmiş Milletler'in Kyoto Sözleşmesi yürürlüğe girdikten bu yana iklim değişikliği konusunda düzenlediği ilk konferans, yapıcı diyalog çağrılarıyla açıldı.

UK agriculture must adapt to climate change which could cause a global food shortage, farmers are warning.

Canada's regional governments have begun a historic summit with the nation's indigenous peoples to address outstanding aboriginal issues.

Current levels of the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere are higher now than at any time in the last 650,000 years. By Richard Black

The government has forced the EU to consider less stringent limits on UK industry greenhouse gas emissions.

A top UN advisor on climate science says world politicians are not acting fast enough to tackle global warming. By Roger Harrabin

A change in the diet of seabirds may be making them less intelligent and lowering their chances of survival and breeding, a new study shows.

The European Union has said it will examine reports that the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) set up secret jails for terror suspects.

Prince Charles has made an impassioned plea to US business leaders to take action on the "environmental crisis" threatening the world.

At least 70 Argentine police officers on duty at a regional summit to be attended by US President George W Bush have suffered food poisoning.

Venezuela Cumhurbaşkanı Hugo Chavez Amerika Birleşik Devletleri yönetimine bir kez daha meydan okudu.

Africa's lakes are declining rapidly, according to a new United Nations publication, with climate change and over-use the major factors.

Mediterranean and mountain regions of Europe will be hardest hit by the changes set to affect the continent's natural resources this century. By Paul Rincon

Captive chimpanzees fail to help others in their social group, even when it causes no inconvenience, a behavioural study in Nature journal has found.

Central America's east coast has been placed on alert as Tropical Storm Beta threatens to turn into a hurricane.

More than 50,000 people have been evacuated from their homes in affected areas of Tamil Nadu.

Prince of Wales deems climate change the "greatest challenge to face man", and according to a warning this week global warming is making the world's poor even worse off. But can it also help to create fresh wealth? By Jorn Madslien

İngiltere'de yayımlanan Guardian gazetesindeki bir habere göre, yahudi yerleşimleri büyürken, Şaron, Batı Şeria'da Gazze'de bıraktığından çok daha fazla toprağı sessizce ele geçiriyor.

A worsening drought in the Amazon basin has prompted Brazil to extend an emergency across the Amazonas state.

Guardian gazetesi Lüksemburg'da saatler süren pazarlıklardan sonra varılan uzlaşmayı şu manşetle veriyor: "Diplomatik çıkmaz aşıldı ve Avrupa Türkiye'yi kucakladı."

EU foreign ministers are to hold emergency talks in Luxembourg on Sunday in a last-ditch effort to break the deadlock over Turkey's membership bid.

3 Ekim tarihi yaklaşırken, Avrupa gazelerinde Türkiye ile üyelik müzakerelerinin yarattığı tartışmalar bugün de geniş yankı buluyor.

A Roman Catholic bishop in Brazil has gone on hunger strike and says he is prepared to die unless a controversial environmental project is cancelled.

Tom DeLay is little known outside the US, but if you need a bill passed in the US House of Representatives, his office is the first and often only stop you need to make.

The European Commission has recommended that airlines should be included in its carbon dioxide trading scheme.

Demand for crisps, bread, lipstick and soap could drive orang-utans to extinction, research suggests.