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Senegalese NGO plants 34 million mangroves

AFP - Yesterday, 05:12 pm

DAKAR (AFP) - A Senegalese environmental NGO announced on Friday that it had planted 34 million mangrove trees in three months in a project largely financed by French dairy giant Danone to offset its carbon footprint. More »

Bluefin tuna on edge of extinction, environmentalists warn
AFP - Thursday, November 5 10:05 pm
WASHINGTON (AFP) - An international fisheries group set up to protect Atlantic tuna has done the opposite and driven one species of the fish, the bluefin, to the edge of extinction, environmentalists said Thursday. More »
Great Whites hang out in Pacific's 'shark cafe'
AFP - Thursday, November 5 08:54 am
PARIS (AFP) - Great Whites may be loners, but the ocean's most feared predators also hang out together between Mexico and Hawaii at a deep sea watering hole known as the "White Shark Cafe," a study reveals. More »
Amazon deforestation slows: Brazil
AFP - Wednesday, November 4 07:54 pm
BRASILIA (AFP) - Brazil lost 400 square kilometers (154 square miles) of Amazon jungle in September, but deforestation slowed by a third compared with the same month last year, according to official data released Wednesday. More »
Probe to track impact of warming on Earth's water
AFP - Monday, November 2 03:14 am
PARIS (AFP) - A 315-million-euro satellite that will gauge the impact of climate change on the movement of water across land, air and sea was hoisted into space early Monday, the European Space Agency (ESA) said. More »
Fire on leaking oil rig off Australian coast
AFP - Sunday, November 1 10:15 am
SYDNEY (AFP) - Australian authorities were Sunday ordered to help extinguish a fire which broke out on a leaking oil rig that has been pumping thousands of barrels of oil into the Timor Sea for months. More »
Australian oil spill 'putting animals at risk'
AFP - Saturday, October 31 03:22 pm
SYDNEY (AFP) - A massive oil leak off Australia's northwest coast poses an "immediate risk" to dozens of marine species, with untold numbers possibly dying and sinking to the Timor Sea floor, a report has said. More »
'I hate whale meat,' Japan's PM confides: report
AFP - Saturday, October 31 07:08 am
TOKYO (AFP) - Japan's Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama has revealed he dislikes whale meat, a newspaper reported Saturday, in an unusual confession for the prime minister of a country that defies Western criticism of whaling. More »
Canada, Greenland accord to protect polar bears
AFP - Saturday, October 31 03:48 am
OTTAWA (AFP) - Canada and Greenland agreed on a series of measures aimed at protecting shared populations of polar bears which roam between the Nunavut territory and the huge arctic island, officials said. More »
London commuters baffled by sex broadcast
Reuters - Yesterday, 05:57 pm
LONDON (Reuters) - London commuters listening out for the latest news about train services got a broadcast with a difference when the noise of a couple apparently having sex was blasted out over a station's loudspeaker system. More »