A seahorse the size of a pea (and the other bizarre species new to science)

They include a tiny snake no more than four inches long, a snail with a shell that twists in four directions and a palm tree that flowers itself to death. These are just some of the more than 18,500 species formally described as new to science in 2007 – the latest year such information is available.

Paper protection not enough for Viet Nam’s marine turtles

Marine turtles are vanishing from Viet Nam’s waters and illegal trade is largely to blame says a new study by TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network.

New Study: Global Temperatures to Rise 9 Degrees by 2100

A new study, which researchers have called “the most exhaustive end-to-end analysis of climate change impacts yet performed”, predicts that global warming could be twice as bad as previous estimates had suggested.

China plastic bag ban ’saved 1.6m tonnes of oil’

Banning flimsy plastic bags has been dismissed as a drop in the ocean when it comes to dealing with the world’s environment problems, but multiplied on a China scale, it appears to have made a big difference.

Why don’t we stop hurting the planet?’

‘A four-year-old child could understand this! Run out and find me a four-year-old child.” For the past year or so, this Groucho Marx line from the 1933 classic Duck Soup might well have been tattooed on the inside of my eyelids. This is what happens when you undertake the challenge of writing a book for children about a subject as complex and, at times, depressing as climate change. With every turn of phrase, I’ve had to remind myself that we must never underestimate a child’s intelligence, or their capacity and eagerness to learn something new.

Exotic Fish Has Bad Reputation but High Yields

Known for eating everything in its path, and even for stinging people, the African catfish (Clarias gariepinus) is feeding debates in Cuba while at the same time it is filling family dinner plates.

New technology helps golf courses cut use

Golf course managers are employing subterranean wireless sensors to use the smallest amount of water necessary to keep the grass green.

Solar Forecasts and Climate Change

Ultimately, global warming can be blamed on the sun. It’s the sun’s light that bathes the Earth and then gets sent back towards space as heat. But some of that heat gets blocked by those pesky carbon dioxide molecules building up in the atmosphere-inexorably warming our planet.

Will Canada’s Tar Sands Destroy the Global Climate?

Further development of Alberta’s famous oil sands will be neither the climate disaster that activists fear nor the energy security panacea that proponents suggest it is, the Council on Foreign Relations concludes in a new report.

Waste to biofuel plant gets go ahead in Canada

Canada-based biofuel and biochemical producer Enerkem said yesterday that it has received approval to build a commercial facility to turn municipal waste into biofuels.

In Brazil, extreme weather stokes climate worries

No one could say they hadn’t seen it coming.

From ‘Alarmed’ to ‘Dismissive’: The Six Ways Americans View Global Warming

Americans fall into six distinct groups regarding their climate change beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors, according to a new report, “Global Warming’s Six Americas,” by researchers at Yale and George Mason universities.