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A domesticated version of the giant Atlantic bluefin means what, exactly, for the species?

Le Programme des Nations Unies pour l'Environnement (PNUE) a dévoilé aujourd'hui sa nouvelle stratégie visant à limiter son empreinte carbone. L'organisation mettra en place d'ici deux ans un ensemble de mesures de réduction de ses émissions de gaz à effet de serre.

ACCRA, Sep 2 (IPS) - As one major meeting on agriculture ends, another begins: farming is truly back on Africa's agenda.

Researchers at Columbia University have demonstrated that a layer of plants and earth can cut the rate of heat absorption through the roof of a building in summer by 84%.

(Reuters) - A website launched on Friday will help track whether rich countries are keeping a pledge to come up with $30 billion in climate aid for the poor, seen by the U.N. as a "golden key" to progress in talks on global warming.

Human-caused climate change threatens to flood Jamestown, the first permanent European settlement in what became the American colonies and the United States, says a report Wednesday by environmental groups.

China's giant pandas remain still an endangered species despite the birth of 23 cubs in zoos across the country in the past two months, panda researchers have said.

GENEVA - Millions of Africans may lose a key source of livelihoods as a fifth of freshwater African species are threatened with extinction, the updated Red List of endangered species showed Thursday.

The number of threatened vultures in Cambodia is on the rise according to a new survey by Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and other members of the Cambodia Vulture Conservation Project.

A species of acacia tree found in Eastern Africa seems to be protected from elephant damage - by the ants that live on it.

Las hormigas protegen las acacias de kenia de los elefantes. Se introducen en su trompa si se atreven a acercarse.  Leer . Escuchar

More than 80 percent of agricultural expansion in the tropics between 1980 and 2000 came at the expense of forests, reports research published last week in the early online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

The discovery on Madagascar of the new species-given away by its flat snout-is a "Tarzan yell for conservation," a new study says. Madagascar - Tarzan - Africa - Species - Environment

Governments have mostly failed to protect Africa's wildlife. But other models- involving hunters, rich conservationists and local farmers-are showing promise

A nose full of biting ants can really spoil your appetite. Especially if your nose is 3 meters long.

Scientists say desertification of the mountain grasslands of the Tibetan plateau is accelerating climate change.

Dams, wetland destruction, and overfishing threaten to wipe out more than 20 percent of Africa's freshwater species, many unique to the continent. Africa - Wetland - Overfishing - Species - Plants

21 percent of African freshwater plant and animal species are threatened with extinction, according to a five year assessment of 5,167 freshwater species by 200 scientists.

The third attempt at concluding negotiations on a draft protocol text on international biodiversity access and benefit-sharing will take place in Montreal on 18-21 September, according to official sources. Delegates at the meeting will try to agree on the text, before the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) meeting in Nagoya, Japan, in October. [...] Related Articles: Biodiversity Negotiators Seek To Finalise Draft Access, Benefit-Sharing Regime Hopes Fading For Concluding Biodiversity Access And Benefit Sharing Negotiations? UN Biodiversity Talks Resume, Last Chance For Agreement Before October Deadline

A growing number of New York sky-scrapers are switching off their lights to help reduce the number of birds hitting the high-rise buildings.