Chile: copper mine water use rising, desalinitaion industry expected to gain heavily
Seawater desalination plants are forecast to cover a third of water demand by miners in 10 years
Rising sea levels could force marine life towards poles
Such a move could put sea creatures at extreme peril
South Africa moves 100 rhinos to neighbouring countries
Measure taken to prevent animals from being poached
Tourism to fight deforestation
Indigenous Indonesian communities invite foreign tourists to their ancestral rainforest lands to slow the advance of deforestation
Monarch butterfly numbers rise even as scientists sound extinction alarm
Monarch numbers rose to 56. 5 million this year from a record low of 34 million last year
Emperor penguin at risk from global warming
Study estimates penguin population in Antarctica to decline by 50 per cent
Pristine Tasmania faces GM threat
Opium industry lobbies to lift moratorium on GM farming
EU parliamentarians vote against propping up carbon prices
Proposal to artificially boost carbon prices fails to receive support, sends prices crashing further