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Greenpeace protesters around the world return electronic waste to Philips headquarters

In a recent opinion poll, 94% of the public in the Netherlands backed Greenpeace's demand that electronics producers should take responsibility for collecting their own-branded e-waste

UN joins environmental calls for Russia to move Olympic site

Greenpeace warns Olympic Village threatens rare and endangered species

French-US space mission to monitor sea level

Work is underway on a new satellite to monitor rising sea levels and to study ocean circulation and its impact on the world's climate

Just how cold can the Antarctic deep seas get?

Scientific knowledge of the deep seas surrounding the Antarctica is minimal at best, which is why new research missions are valuable to increasing our knowledge of the area, one such recent mission has revealed that the Antarctic deep sea is getting colder, and that this drop in temperature may have important implications for the circulation of the oceanic water masses

Vast bounty at risk from under protected oceans

A new WWF Germany study of the ocean's value has found, but are at risk due to very low levels of protection from over-exploitation

Human well-being better in a better protected environment

SafetyNet: protected areas and poverty reduction

Greenpeace blocks coal shipment, calls on G8 to quit coal

A giant banner on the ship's masts reading «Quit coal» urged the Philippine government to stop building and expanding coal-fired power plants

Studies raise concern about impact of nitrogen on environment

An international group of scientists warns about the effects of excessive nitrogen emissions from food and energy production on the global ecosystem

GMES Sentinel-2 satellite contract signed

The European Space Agency and Astrium today signed a ?195 million contract to provide the first Sentinel-2 earth observation satellite, devoted to monitoring the land environment

From Mars to the Earth

Studying ice beneath the surface

Urgent changes needed in global farming practices to avoid environmental destruction

World's leading scientists condemn industrial farming methods and see no role for GE as a solution to soaring food prices and hunger crisis fears

Birds sing a sad song of loneliness

Increasing human encroachment on natural habitats is progressively disturbing the natural balance in ecosystems

Europe breaks new ground in unmanned air-reconnaissance

Researchers from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and the Technical University of Braunschweig (TUBS), Germany have successfully completed the first-ever series of UAV flights in Antarctica