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Charles Darwin may have been wrong to argue that competition was the major driver of evolution, a study suggests.

NAGOYA - About 100 young people began a five-day international conference in Aichi Prefecture on Monday to discuss how to prevent further deterioration of ecosystems prior to a Convention of Biological Diversity meeting to be held in Nagoya in October.

Economists provide qualitative guidance to policymakers for optimal response

The critical role of the microscopic plants that act as a 'carbon sink' comes at a potentially devastating cost for the world's oceans: acidification. From Grist , part of the Guardian Environment Network.

Coral, the reef-building organisms responsible for some of the oceans' most vital ecosystems, are in trouble around the world because of climate change, ocean acidification and human interference.

Emissions of carbon dioxide are causing ocean acidification as well as global warming.

Environmentalists have called on the EU to take action against widespread destruction of protected natural habitats in Bulgaria caused by the construction of tourist resorts, golf courses and ski slopes, sand and gravel extraction and intensive wood production.

Cape Town - Food scientists should follow the lead of climate scientists and petition the United Nations (UN) to safeguard the environment so the world can produce enough food to feed its rapidly growing population, the UK's former chief scientific adviser Sir David King told delegates to the 15th world congress of food science and technology yesterday.

Investigadores suizos recogen muestras en el volcán africano para estudiar el impacto de sus emisiones en el cambio climático.  Leer . Escuchar

Yasuní is both a place and a metaphor. The place is a UNESCO Biopshere Reserve in the Ecuadorian Amazon where two indigenous communities, the Tagaeri and the Taromenane, live in voluntary isolation.

NEW ORLEANS - The whooping crane - one of the world's most endangered birds and one of the first animals on the U.S. endangered list - could be back in Louisiana's wetlands as early as February under a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposal.

NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) - Mauritania has launched a tree-planting program aimed at protecting its capital from the advancing desert and coastal erosion, a project that could eventually extend thousands of kilometers across Africa.

Fresh outbreak threatens UK's remaining English elms

Forty-nine pilot whales have been buried on a northern New Zealand beach following a two-day struggle by more than 200 rescuers to save them.

Pour la première fois cette année, les poissons dans nos assiettes proviendront davantage de l'aquaculture que de la pêche traditionnelle. Mais que donne-t-on à manger à ces braves bêtes, si ce n'est. du poisson ?

Tombés à 1 500 individus dans les années 1980, les effectifs de ce mustélidé se renforcent.

It looks nondescript. A plant with tiny white flowers. Yet the plant, parthenium, has the potential to create a pandemic that can destroy Kenya's agricultural yields by up to 40 per cent, reduce pasture by up to 90 per cent and impact negatively on human health.

Trade bans may fail, but fishing management agencies have other strategies, too, including those proved to work

De grandes quantités de débris en matière plastique flottent dans l'ouest de l'Atlantique nord,...

Deep-sea trawling is damaging the UK's sponge beds and threatening a potential source of medical cures, scientists have warned.