London commuters share subway seats with bugs 2006-02-07 05:52:25
Passengers on the London Underground subway network don't just have each other for company on the daily commute: they are also sharing seats with more than three million bugs, according to researchers.Full Story...
Oil producers must make green moves - Annan 2006-02-07 02:34:48
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has called for an end to pollution of the environment and urged oil-producing nations to spearhead efforts to develop clean energy.Full Story...
Linguistic feat to chirp about 2006-02-06 15:41:25
Pet birds can not only imitate sounds, they can distinguish between languages, potentially offering new clues on how the brain recognises speech, Japanese researchers say.Full Story...
UN hopes for global unity on chemical pact 2006-02-06 01:52:30
United Nations officials are optimistic that government ministers attending the International Conference on Chemicals Management in Dubai will sign a pact to limit the hazards of chemicals worldwide.Full Story...
New lobster game makes green groups see red 2006-02-06 02:11:40
Several seafood restaurants in Maine are offering customers the chance to play with their food before eating it - and animal rights activists are up in arms. Clarke Canfield investigates...Full Story...
SA frogs blamed for deadly disease 2006-02-05 17:40:14
Scientists now believe that a skin disease that is wiping out frogs around the world may have been spread from Africa through an ancient pregnancy test.Full Story...
Summit kicks off with chemicals treaty 2006-02-05 12:43:31
A UN-sponsored conference is expected to lure the largest-ever gathering of national environment ministers to discuss matters ranging from sustainable energy to eco-tourism.Full Story...
Worldwide destruction of wetlands 2006-02-05 13:54:57
The world's wetlands are under threat, but 90 experts provided a glimmer of hope when they met at St Lucia this week to discuss possible solutions. Myrtle Ryan reports.Full Story...
Deaths push rare Asia dolphins to extinction 2006-02-03 21:23:46
Ten dead Irrawaddy dolphins have been found in Cambodia's Mekong river - and with only about a thousand left - the species is being pushing closer to extinction, the environmental group WWF International has said.Full Story...
Hundreds of seal pups drown in Canada storm 2006-02-03 21:33:38
A tidal surge off Canada's east coast has swept more than 1 500 seal pups out to sea after a lack of ice cover meant their mothers had been forced to give birth on a small island, environment officials said.Full Story...
'Wetlands are wet, wild and wonderful' 2006-02-02 23:45:45
It's been 35 years since an international Convention on Wetlands was signed in Iran - and a group of 120 Soshanguve pupils got down to some wild and wonderful learning at the Pretoria Botanical Gardens in honour of the event.Full Story...
Bed-bug epidemic bites at Australian tourism 2006-02-03 01:37:35
They're creepy crawlies, they suck your blood and they make sleeping very difficult - bed-bugs, and they're said to be costing Australia's tourism industry about R450-million a year.Full Story...
'Governments must give green incentives' 2006-02-03 03:26:53
Governments need to provide clear incentives to help the environment, a leader of a major study into whether economic growth is compatible with green policies has urged.Full Story...
US expect to be overwhelmed by bird flu 2006-02-03 17:21:33
Hospitals, schools, businesses and the general public are not ready to cope if the dreaded avian flu pandemic should reach the United States, according to health experts.Full Story...
Hobby project wins world title for olive oil 2006-02-02 07:27:42
Italian Giulio Bertrand's olive oil - produced at Morgenster in Somerset West - has just been voted best blended extra virgin olive oil by the Italian olive oil bible, writes Jeanne Viall.Full Story...
Greenpeace changes focus to whaling companies 2006-02-02 08:38:31
After a completing a 73-day anti-whaling cruise in the Southern Ocean, Greenpeace activists at a media briefing in Cape Town, said that the organisation would now turn up the heat on companies with whaling links.Full Story...
Hi-tech pigeons set to monitor air pollution 2006-02-02 01:53:30
Long used as courriers, pigeons are now going to be keeping pace with technology, with a flock fitted with cellphone backpacks to be released in California soon to monitor air pollution.Full Story...
Scientists find traces of anthrax in Africa 2006-02-02 01:34:07
Germany's public health agency, the Robert Koch Institute, and the Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology say gorillas and chimpanzees living in African rain forests are at threat from a new strain of anthrax.Full Story...
Whales sing sweet songs of charm, says study 2006-02-01 23:34:24
It's long been thought that singing is used by whales to attract mates or repel rivals, but new Australian research indicates the serenades may be the basis on which the females select their sexual partners.Full Story...
EU sees 18 percent surge in wind power 2006-02-01 12:44:18
Wind power has surged ahead in the European Union, with installed turbine capacity increasing by nearly a fifth over 2004, the industry said.Full Story...
Infectious cancer 'killing' Tasmanian devils 2006-02-01 12:46:22
Tasmanian devils, marsupials found only in Tasmania, are dying in droves from a facial cancer that scientists believe they are spreading to each other through bites.Full Story...
Man turns coconut waste into enviro-saver 2006-02-01 01:51:49
A former agricultural college dean has turned the lowly husk of the coconut fruit, the most ubiquitous plant in his native Philippines, into an award-winning product.Full Story...
Coral severely bleached in Great Barrier Reef 2006-01-31 03:48:33
Large quantities of coral have already been severely bleached partially due to global warming, but now scientists fear that the phenomenon could soon spread across the entire Great Barrier Reef.Full Story...
Floods, drought boost global disasters 2006-01-31 03:44:18
European researchers have blamed global warming for more frequent floods and drought which brought on a near 20 percent rise in natural disasters in 2005.Full Story...
Bird flu pandemic could kill millions - WHO 2006-01-31 03:49:51
The bird flu strain found recently in a dead bird in Hong Kong is the same as that menacing poultry in China, a media report says, suggesting a possible source for the infection.Full Story...
Drug brings hope for endangered vultures 2006-01-31 03:38:12
Scientists have offered a ray of hope to Asian vultures being wiped out in India after eating the corpses of cattle treated with a common anti-inflammatory drug.Full Story...
Ashanti latches onto surrogate mother 2006-01-30 02:42:21
The baby elephant that was abandoned at birth in the Bloemfontein Zoo has found a surrogate mother at the Knysna Elephant Park, according to the park's owner.Full Story...
EU confirms birdflu virus in Cyprus 2006-01-30 03:55:10
European Union authorities have confirmed the presence of the deadly H5N1 strain of avian flu in a sample taken from poultry from northern Cyprus, the European Commission has said.Full Story...
Relatively calm Alaskan volcano erupts again 2006-01-30 03:42:25
A volcano on an uninhabited Alaskan island has erupted again after 10 days of relative calm.Full Story...
Nasa tries to muzzle climate expert - report 2006-01-30 03:39:28
Nasa's top climate scientist says the Bush administration has tried to stop him from speaking out since he gave a lecture in December calling for prompt reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases, a prominent newspaper has reported.Full Story...
Minister 'sorry' for lack of beef inspections 2006-01-30 01:53:56
Japan should have more thoroughly inspected United States cattle facilities before easing a ban on American beef last month, Japan's agricultural minister has said.Full Story...
Cheap air fares costing the earth 2006-01-29 05:06:16
As the travel industry prepares for a boom in foreign travel, green groups have expressed concern that fumes spewed out by jets will become the single biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.Full Story...
Why your woes are giving Fido the blues 2006-01-29 01:10:50
All work and no play has raised stress levels, leaving most people with less free time than ever before. And pooches appear to be getting the short end of the stickFull Story...
Anti-whalers do it for pleasure - skipper 2006-01-28 09:35:26
The SA Maritime Safety Authority is being accused of making impossible demands on an anti-whaling ship being detained in Cape Town harbour.Full Story...
Baboon does a Goldilocks at Cape guest house 2006-01-27 04:47:33
Quizzy the baboon has played out his own version of the fairy tale Goldilocks and the Three Bears, only there were no bears and the hirsute Goldilocks certainly was no lost little girl.Full Story...
Great 'snaggle-toothed ghost' hunt begins 2006-01-27 06:37:13
"Bigfoot" fever has dominated Malaysian newspaper headlines for several weeks, with several dramatic sightings of a hairy, gorilla-like creature reported in the thick forest in the southern state of Johor.Full Story...
China pets face grim start to Year of the Dog 2006-01-27 02:53:42
Dogs in China may be honoured with the Year of the Dog this year, but many will be abandoned and ill-cared for once the hype of the occasion subsides.Full Story...
Alaskan oil spillage still lingers in court 2006-01-27 02:37:34
Nearly 17 years after the Exxon Valdez supertanker ran aground at a reef in Alaska, its environmental impact and the legal battle about compensation still haunt the area, writes Yereth Rosen.Full Story...
Bird flu viruses carry unique genes - study 2006-01-27 03:13:19
US scientists say they may have discovered what makes the H5N1 bird flu virus so deadly - the viruses have a gene that may make them especially destructive to cells.Full Story...
Koeberg the source of Khayelitsha's bad air? 2006-01-26 03:57:28
Researchers are to conduct more tests on caesium levels in Khayelitsha after they found "well above expected" levels of the metal there, says Eugene Cairncross, professor of chemical engineering at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology.Full Story...
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