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Heavily polluted and shrinking, Lake Naivasha is in dire trouble. Environmentalists say the cause is clear: flower farms. Some 60 flower farms line the entire lakeside, growing cut flowers for export largely to the EU. While the flowers industry is Kenya's largest horticultural export (405.5 million last year) it may have also produced an environmental nightmare.

African crop yields wither, along with the Amazon rainforest; Himalayan glaciers disappear by 2035. These are the erroneous predictions ascribed to the most recent report from the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)-a document reviewed by some 2,500 scientists and other experts as well as vetted by more than 190 countries.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has asked the world's science academies to review work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

SCHOOLS in three US states - Louisiana, Texas and South Dakota - have been told to teach alternatives to the scientific consensus on global warming.

Los 27 respaldan el proyecto para prohibir la pesca industrial y la venta internacional de esta especie.  Leer . Escuchar

The biggest national study of threats to biodiversity has found nearly 1,000 species are at risk of extinction in England. Use the map to see where the endangered animals and plants are located

With populations continuing to decline, wildlife agencies issue a plan to designate critical habitat zones to protect the species. Such listing could affect offshore drilling and other activities. Federal agencies are proposing to increase protections for loggerhead turtles, the long-lived sea creatures known for their big heads and capacity to swim thousands of miles across the Pacific.

A Natural England report estimates at least 492 species have gone extinct in the last 2,000 years. Here are some examples:

HONOLULU - Wildlife officials lauded Washington's "holistic approach" to conservation in Hawaii after the Obama administration declared 48 species as endangered and announced plans to set aside more than 40 square miles on Kauai as critical habitat to allow the plants and animals to flourish.

Dr.Tom Tew of Natural England tells Jon Dennis about an audit showing wildlife species becoming extinct at rate of two a year Jon Dennis

EU nations decide to support a ban on international trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna until stocks recover.

L'Union européenne a décidé mercredi de soutenir, dans la foulée des États-Unis, une...

La deforestación en República Democrática del Congo deja al descubierto lo que podría ser el impacto de un asteroide.  Leer

The largest meat-eating plant in the world is designed not to eat small animals, but small animal poo, scientists discover.

PARIS - French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Thursday demanded reforms of the United Nations and urged negotiations under a small group of countries to accelerate efforts to fight climate change.

Wild turmeric extract could help control the mosquito that spreads lymphatic filariasis, say scientists.

OSLO (Reuters) - A "doomsday" vault storing crop seeds in an Arctic deep freeze is surpassing 500,000 samples to become the most diverse collection of food seeds in history, managers said on Thursday.

There has been protest in Japan over a proposed ban on international trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna, a day after the European Union agreed to back the plan.

Large terrestrial mammals are the most threatened taxa, and hence face a greater possibility of becoming extinct the world over - about 25 per cent of them are facing extinction, and 50 per cent are seeing their numbers declining. South Asian species are the most threatened.

The world's largest tourism fair ITB Berlin is on. One of the growing trends in this industry is corporate social responsibility. But more steps need to be taken for tourism to lastingly benefit developing countries.