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We owe our very existence to plants, which – thanks to their relationship with CO2 – have prevented the Earth from freezing over.

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By Emma Graham-Harrison BEIJING (Reuters) - China is considering new air quality regulations as it looks to build on its success clearing Beijing's skies during the Olympics, environmental officials from the capital said on Friday. Beijing's claim...

A single mega-colony of ants has colonised much of the world, scientists have discovered... The colony may be the largest of its type ever known for any insect species, and could rival humans in the scale of its world domination.

Don't be alarmed, but on a remote island in Scotland the sheep are shrinking.Instead of gradually increasing in size as expected due to evolution, the average weight of the wild sheep has decreased as average temperatures heat up.

A group of monkeys has been put on a diet after constant snacks and treats from visitors saw them tipping the scales at three times their ideal weight.

Ever made a really bad typo? Welcome to Dell's world! The computer manufacturer advertised one of its 19-inch monitors for $15 (£9). Read more...

Recently, outside of New York City’s Madison Square Garden, Deutsche Bank unveiled in plain view a meter of sorts on human-caused climate change, the great challenge of our age. The bank activated a 67-by-32-foot electronic billboard — where some 510,

If you bring garbage to share with your family, the least you can do is give an excuse.

Car designer Harsha Vardhan suggests that this two-wheeler concept is the car of the future. a single-seater electric vehicle that uses magnetic fields for driving the car. The two gianormous wheels, suspended over a superconducting fluid

http://www.thoughtoffice.com/ Kevin Surace of Serious Materials reinvents drywall, saving tons of energy and carbon - and the new product, EcoRock, is healthier, too! (TEDTalks)

A look at some of the alternative cars with revolutionary technology that are under development, from the Scuderi split-cycle engine to the air car by Zero Pollution Motors and the Terrafugia Transition flying car.

The Southern Ocean has lost its appetite for carbon dioxide, and now it appears that ozone levels could be partly to blame

Near the Cambodian borders, Khun Han, the only you can find over a million empty bottles in one place, will be this temple. Made out of empty bottles and cement, the Wat Lan Khaud aka Temple of Million Bottles, shows how discarded items can be transformed

Copycat chimps build their own tools after watching a video demonstration, say scientists. The team is now planning to carry out the same test in young children to find out how much they rely on social learning.

Our ship, The Arctic Sunrise is currently heading north along the west coast of Greenland in a race against time. It's destination is the disintegrating Petermann Glacier, but to reach the glacier our ship must pass through the Nares Strait, which could b