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Tuesday 4 December 2007

Earth Your planet, your home

Angela Merkel with a VW Space Up concept car

Angela Merkel's green image under attack

Angela Merkel's image as the environmental conscience in global politics has this week taken a drubbing from activists who claim her energy policies are unrealistic and hypocritical.

Full coverage of the Bali climate conference

Developing countries to cause 'disaster'

Australia signs Kyoto and gets Bali ovation

Mummified dinosaur had a big bottom

Brad Pitt announces the plans for eco-homes

Brad's eco home plan

Brad Pitt wants to build 150 eco-friendly houses for families hit by Hurricane Katrina

Summer floods cost £3bn

Carbon trading 'is key'

Animal skin being burnt - Animal skins burnt by Kashmir authorities

Skins destroyed

Animal skins worth millions of pounds have been ceremonially burned in Kashmir.

Tropics expanding

IT causes eco-damage

COMMENT

GREENER LIVING

ETHICAL CONSUMER

Harvest rainwater - green and cost effective
Composting guide: Which systems work
Is it worth it? Green funerals
Is it worth it? Eco-cooking

ENERGY-SAVING LIGHTBULBS

The future's bright

SOLAR PANELS

Photovoltaic panels could mean cashback

GROUND SOURCE HEATING

Heating that harnesses the Earth's energy

WIND TURBINES

What's on the market

ECO-HEATING AND PLUMBING

Ask our expert your 'green' questions

EARTH WATCH

The hunted ones

Siberian tiger populations were recovering. Now logging, poaching and a lack of interest from the Russian government threatens to decimate the big cats. Richard Grant went on anti-poaching patrol.

The roots of a nation

Britain has some of the oldest trees in Europe, but they need our help, says Clive Aslet.

A piece of duck history

Why spend a fortune on an old shed? Duff Hart-Davis on fowl deeds in the breeding world.

Comfort in the extreme

Antarctic research station Halley VI will be kind to its inhabitants. By Dominic Bradbury

Own your own woodland

Stephanie Boucher fears a rude awakening may follow the dream to own woodland.

CONSERVATION

White tail eagle shot

White-tailed sea eagle shot in Scotland by rogue estate.

No sex tonight deer

Pressures of topi antelope's sex lives revealed in new study.

Common toad threatened

Common toad faces bleak future due to deadly fungal disease.

Eagle may not return to wild

Eagle shot illegally by hunters recovers after operations.

EARTH PULSE

The Pulse tracks what's hot in global coverage of green issues, displays the number of stories published in each area and ranks by percentage weekly change.

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