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