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Vancouver Island beekeepers say 90 per cent of their hives have been wiped out by a lethal combination of disease and a long summer last year.

Approval of the Amflora potato could signal a fresh approach to genetically modified organisms.

NEW DELHI -- Developing countries led by China and Brazil will overtake rich nations in adopting genetically modified crops over the next two-three years, as they strive to raise yields to meet demand from their growing population, a top farm scientist said.

PHILOMATH, Oregon (AP): Organic farmers fear this year's spring breezes will be carrying pollen from genetically altered sugar beets, which they say could render their crops worthless, and they hope to persuade a federal judge to halt the plantings nationwide.

BEIJING - China told the United States on Wednesday to make stronger commitments on climate change and provide environmental expertise and financing to developing nations.

As global warming and habitat degradation accelerates, people indigenous to the Arctic circle say they have much to teach the world about how to adapt, survive, and thrive

The future of the bluefin tuna could be decided within days, along with two other endangered fish, the spiny dogfish and porbeagle, according to a national conservation charity.

The calls of male orangutans contain information about the apes' identity and the context of the call, researchers say.

Can all species live side by side in unique ecosystem?

WWF Suisse lance, en collaboration avec plusieurs partenaires, une grande campagne participative pour réaliser 10 000 actions en faveur de la nature.

Oceanógrafos de Baleares detectan 38 nuevas especies de peces exóticos procedentes del Atlántico y del Índico.  Leer . Escuchar

Two billion people worldwide do their cooking on open fires, producing sooty pollution that shortens millions of lives and exacerbates global warming. If widely adopted, a new generation of inexpensive, durable cook stoves could go a long way toward alleviating this problem.

An exceptional lack of sea ice on the Gulf of St. Lawrence this winter has left seal mothers with few places to bear their young or to feed their pups.

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt wants visitors to discover its Mediterranean coast at a marine reserve being established near the border with Libya, the government said Tuesday.

BUCHAREST - Three Romanian environmental organisations filed complaints to the European Commission targetting several "violations" of protected areas in Romania, they said Tuesday.

When the massive, barnacle-spotted head of a Pacific gray whale slid alongside Pachico Mayoral's wooden boat, he nervously reached out to touch it.

Auckland tourism company TIME Unlimited Tours has just been pronounced overall winner in the public vote section of the global Indigenous Tourism and Biodiversity Website Award 2010.

Environment minister Karen Ellemann was the opening speaker on Monday for an international ministerial conference on bio-piracy in Windhoek, Namibia, aimed at stopping companies from obtaining genetic resources from countries without providing reciprocal economic benefits.

WINDHOEK - Namibia is hosting a continental conference in preparation for the finalisation of an international regime on access and benefit-sharing of the world's biodiversity and genetic resources later in the year at Nagoya, Japan.

A l'occasion de la publication du second Rapport annuel sur le droit à l'alimentation, Olivier De Schutter, Rapporteur spécial de l'ONU sur le droit à l'alimentation, a déclaré que les Etats et les entreprises doivent aider les petits exploitants agricoles qui souffrent de la concurrence inégale des entreprises agroalimentaires.