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Alistair Darling has urged the world's most powerful finance ministers to act on climate change

Darling pushes for G20 climate deal

Chancellor Alistair Darling has urged the world's most powerful finance ministers to treat climate change with the same urgency they gave to the world economic turmoil. More

Countries most vulnerable to climate change have attacked rich nations for rethinking the global emissions treaty timetable

Solid climate change deal urged

Countries most vulnerable to climate… More

A watchdog urged the cours to issue tougher fines for environmental pollution

Courts told get tough on polluters

The courts have been urged by… More


Friends of the Earth warned Government's 'obsession' with carbon trading was 'dangerous'

Warning over carbon 'double whammy'

Environmental campaigners have… More

Rains floods homes of more than 200,000 along Mexico's Gulf coast

Rains flood 200,000 Mexican homes

Rains have flooded the homes of… More


The Peugeot BB1 concept car-cum-scooter 'green' concept vehicle

Minister hails electric car project

A £9 million project to develop… More

A bald hedgehog abandoned by his mother is being treated by experts

TLC spikes hope for bald hedgehog

A bald hedgehog abandoned by his… More


Conservationists are celebrating the first successful steps in an attempt to save the world's rarest duck - the Madagascar pochard - from extinction

Bid to save world's rarest duck

Conservationists are celebrating… More

A complete blueprint of the domestic horse’s genetic code has revealed remarkable similarities with humans, say scientists

Horses' genetic code link to humans

A complete blueprint of the domestic… More