The Independent

It's on every high street and in every coffee shop and school. But experts have serious concerns about the effects of electronic smog from wireless networks linking our laptops and mobiles, reports Geoffrey Lean

Humanity will be divided as never before by climate change, with the world's poor its disproportionate victims, the latest United Nations report on the coming effects of global warming made clear yesterday. By Michael McCarthy and Stephen Castle

A strange silence was the first clue that something was wrong. The dawn chorus that usually woke residents of the picturesque coastal town of Esperance, in Western Australia, had stopped. Then birds began falling out of the sky. By Kathy Marks

Europe's big polluters pumped more climate-changing gases into the atmosphere in 2006 than during the previous year, according to figures that show the EU's carbon trading system failing to deliver curbs. By Stephen Castle

Pictures of seal pups drowning in melting polar ice have shocked the world. Yesterday campaigners reported they have seen survivors clinging to life. But in a few days' time, the hunters will come and the pups' brief struggle against so many odds will come to a bloody end. By David Usborne

Thousands of harp seal pups are assumed dead in Canada's Gulf of St Lawrence due to the lack of ice floes, which mother seals require to nurse their pups successfully. By Jerome Taylor

Europe's leaders toughened their stand against mass murder in Darfur yesterday, issuing new threats against the Sudanese government, as their own 50th birthday celebration summit was thrown off balance by the unprecedented appeal from Europe's leading writers for action. By Stephen Castle

The end is in sight for the traditional lightbulb after EU leaders yesterday called for a mass switch-off and a push to equip homes and offices with energy efficient alternatives within two years. By Stephen Castle

Overstretched, ill-equipped, the military are caught in the crossfire of a mission impossible. By Raymond Whitaker

Herds of sea cucumbers on the move, fields of sea squirts and forests of glass sponges. These were just some of the fantastic sights scientists captured on an underwater expedition to a remote region of Antarctica.

20,000 people add their names to the campaign. Politicians join clamour against excessive fees. Banks claim customers are to blame for costs. By David Prosser

Many of our most famous waters, from the lochs to the Broads, are being badly polluted. Environment Editor Geoffrey Lean reports

Japan launches its most serious challenge yet to the two-decade ban on whale-hunting when it hosts a conference tomorrow aimed at "reforming" the International Whaling Commission. By David McNeill

The world's largest building project is a revolutionary eco-city of electric cars and zero emissions near Shanghai. By Clifford Coonan

I worry about your tendency to let George Bush off the hook

It's a pretty grim conclusion: greenhouse gas reduction targets being talked about to stop climate change will not now avoid potentially catastrophic rises in global average temperatures, yesterday's report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), makes clear.

According to yesterday's UN report, the world will be a much hotter place by 2100. This will be the impact ... By Mark Lynas

Buried within the newly released IPCC report is an apocalyptic warning: if greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise at current rates, global warming by the end of the century could total 6.4C.

The change in climate was dramatic: the following year, "the year without summer", failing crops meant 80,000 people died of starvation. By Alan Johnson

Children will learn about the dangers faced by the environment - and what they can do about it. By Richard Garner

The benefits of persuading householders to save energy in the campaign against climate change are being wiped out by increased air traffic, government figures reveal. By Andy McSmith

It could almost now be classified as the British national hobby. The nation's love of wild birds has never been stronger, with millions of people regularly watching and feeding them in their gardens. By Terry Kirby

At the height of summer, Nokholekile Mtina's small brick house feels like an oven. The corrugated iron roof has no insulation so Mrs Mtina and her four children have to cope with extremes. When the temperature drops outside, it plummets inside. By Steve Bloomfield

Scientists claim committee's conclusions were manipulated for political gain, reports Colin Brown

We are concerned that children are dying in Iraq for want of medical treatment. Iraq, instead of being a country at the top of the league for medicine, as it once was, now has conditions and mortality of a Third World country.

Human encroachment, pollution, overfishing and dam-building have killed one third of fish species in the Yellow River, China's second-longest waterway. Its increasingly desperate plight is also threatening economic growth. By Clifford Coonan

Doctors issue plea to Tony Blair to end the scandal of medical shortages in the war zone. By Colin BrownColin Brown

The threat of all-out nuclear war hung over us for 40 years. But this catastrophic threat could be merely in temporary abeyance. We are confronted by proliferation of nuclear weapons, in North Korea and Iran for instance. Terrorists might acquire a nuclear weapon. By Martin Rees

Those who originally named the peak spoke as they probably found it, calling it "Snow Dun", from the Saxon for "snow hill". But Snowdon may lose its snow cover within 13 years as a result of climate change, Welsh scientists say. By Ian Herbert

Britain's biggest supplier of budget clothing is recommending customers wash its clothes at a lower temperature to save energy. By Martin Hickman