Carbon Negative – Because Neutral is not enough

On the verge of her 70th birthday, Booker prize-winning Canadian author Margaret Atwood is forging into new territory to promote her latest novel "The Year of the Flood."

While the bulk of British industry is in the doldrums, one area of buoyant activity is the domestic coal sector.

Green taxes could be the key to shifting Britain onto a lower carbon lifestyle and meeting international targets on cutting greenhouse gas emissions, a new report is due to suggest.

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) said Friday it would approve biofuels for commercial flights by 2010 in a bid to drastically reduce the industry's carbon footprint.

London's Science Museum has waded into the climate change debate with a new exhibition called "Prove It!" that aims to persuade doubters that humans really are behind global warming.

The Maldivian president and ministers held the world's first underwater cabinet meeting on Saturday, in a symbolic cry for help over rising sea levels that threaten the tropical archipelago's existence.

To bring attention the risk the Maldives face from rising sea levels and climate change, President Mohamed Nasheed is going to the bottom of the Indian Ocean.

Britain's leading shares added 0.1 percent on Friday in very quiet trading, which saw small gains in energy issues and drugmakers just offset weakness in miners and banks.

The Norwegian government said Wednesday that it was prepared to toughen its target for cutting carbon emissions by 2020 to help support efforts to reach a global climate accord.

Some firms could face fines of a minimum of 24,000 pounds annually by 2015 under a new government plan to cut corporate energy usage and carbon emissions, the government said on Wednesday.