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Mexico City trash-for-food market helps capital clean up
On a recent rainy Sunday morning in a Mexico City neighborhood, people lined up under their umbrellas with bags of empty milk cartons, plastic bottles and cardboard at their feet.
29 June 2013
Nazarbayev calls to make Kazakhstan green
Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev has held a field meeting on development of the Green Belt around Astana.
28 June 2013
Over 1 thousand dead seagulls discovered in Kazakhstan sector of Caspian Sea
Mass mortality of seagulls has been registered at Shalyga island in the northern part of the Caspian Sea.
27 June 2013
Kazakhstan and U.S. agree to cooperate in reduction of emissions
A memorandum of understanding on cooperation in expansion of capacities for development of an emissions reduction strategy has been signed between Kazakhstan Ministry of Environmental protection and the U.S. Government.
27 June 2013
Obama lays out national plan to fight climate change
US President Barack Obama on Tuesday laid out a broad new plan to fight climate change, using executive powers to get around "flat earth" science deniers who have blocked action in Congress.
26 June 2013
New flame-headed bird species found in Cambodia capital
A new species of bird with a distinctive orange-red coloured tuft of feathers on its head has been found in Cambodia's populous capital city.
26 June 2013
Pesticides tainting traditional China herbs: Greenpeace
Traditional Chinese herbs are being contaminated with a toxic cocktail of pesticides that poses a threat to consumer health and the environment.
25 June 2013
Saiga population doubles in Kazakhstan in 5 years
The population growth has not been affected even by poachers who hunt saiga for its horns used in Chinese medicine.
24 June 2013
Palm oil companies behind Singapore smog: Greenpeace
Fires on Indonesia's Sumatra, which have cloaked Singapore in record-breaking smog, are raging on palm oil plantations owned by Indonesian, Malaysian and Singaporean companies.
22 June 2013
Singapore smog in new high, danger to ill and elderly
Singapore's smog index hit the critical 400 level on Friday, making it potentially life-threatening to the ill and elderly people, according to a government monitoring site.
21 June 2013
Millions of moths mass on Madrid
Millions of moths have engulfed Madrid in a population explosion blamed on spring rains, a sudden blast of summer heat and winds that have wafted them in as unwelcome guests to the Spanish capital.
19 June 2013
Effort to revive Galapagos tortoises once thought extinct
Scientists will try to revive two species of giant Galapagos tortoises thought to have been extinct by breeding genetic relatives in captivity.
17 June 2013
Environmentalists warn of Nicaragua canal disaster
A proposed Nicaraguan waterway rivaling the Panama Canal would cause an environmental disaster threatening drinking water supplies and fragile ecosystems.
16 June 2013
Warm ocean water melting Antarctic ice from bottom
Warming ocean waters are melting the Antarctic ice shelves from the bottom up, researchers said Thursday in the first comprehensive study of the thick platforms of floating ice.
14 June 2013
Gillard teams with Schwarzenegger on climate action
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard joined forces with former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Thursday to urge global action on climate change, saying politics must be put aside.
13 June 2013
US mulls endangered status for captive chimpanzees
The US Fish and Wildlife Service on Tuesday announced it is considering giving captive chimpanzees the same endangered status that currently protects chimps living in the wild.
13 June 2013
Kazakhstan mulls postponing penalties for greenhouse gas emissions
Kazakhstan Environmental Protection Ministry is suggesting to postpone and lower the fines for exceeding greenhouse gas emission quotas.
12 June 2013
Pressure on New Zealand to save world's rarest dolphin
New Zealand is facing pressure to save the world's rarest dolphin at an international scientific meeting underway this week in what conservationists say is a test of the nation's "clean, green" credentials.
10 June 2013
Fears for African rhinos in China rainforest
In a tropical Chinese rainforest, seven savannah-dwelling African rhinos are said to be awaiting release into the wild, raising fears for their welfare in a country with a booming rhino horn trade.
09 June 2013
Dutch duo peddle old bikes as fashion, furniture
Two Dutch entrepreneurs have found a novel way to make money out of the thousands of bicycles abandoned in the Netherlands each year, by turning them into designer fashion items and furniture.
08 June 2013
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