Western Europe's tallest peak, the snow-capped Alpine giant Mont Blanc, has shrunk by 45 centimeters (18 inches) in two years, experts said Thursday following an official survey.

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.

Florida homes and swamps more used to dealing with dangerous critters now face a more foreign invader -- giant pet snakes escaped into the wild whose numbers are growing at an alarming rate.

Australia launched an inquiry on Thursday into a major oil spill off its coast which has been described as one of the country's worst environmental disasters.

Malaysia's deputy premier has announced plans to double the population of the endangered Malayan Tiger through a new initiative to manage and conserve the big cat in its natural environment.

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".

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.

US President Barack Obama stood shoulder to shoulder with Europe Tuesday pressing to "redouble" efforts to combat global warming, but opponents in Congress made clear there would be no smooth path to a climate deal.

Officials in China have called for special laws to halt pollution of the nation's thousands of lakes, which are drying up at a rate of about 20 per year.

A Peruvian scientist has called on his country to help slow the melting of Andean glaciers by daubing white paint on the rock and earth left behind by receding ice so they will absorb less heat.

Coral reefs off Taiwan will need up to 100 years to recover from Typhoon Morakot, which lashed the island in early August killing more than 600 people, a scientist said Tuesday.

As scientists race the clock to increase food production worldwide, new trials to plant genetically-modified maize have stoked anger in Mexico, the cradle of corn.

The coastal barangays of this city have become a haven for thousands of migrating forest and water birds coming all the way from as far as Europe and neighboring countries in Asia.

Some 50 African nations staged a show of force at world climate talks here Tuesday, demanding that rich countries commit to deep cuts in the carbon emissions that stoke global warming.

The two man-eating lions of Tsavo which terrorized a railroad camp in Kenya and have inspired three Hollywood films may not have been as deadly as legend would have it.

The snows capping Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's tallest peak, are shrinking rapidly and could vanish altogether in 20 years, most likely due to global warming, a US study published Monday said.

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.

Scientists are now hoping to send the pollutants the other way, deep into the bowels of Mother Earth.

Negotiators from nearly 180 countries hope to nail down the outline of a plan to provide tens of billions of dollars a year to fight climate change, before a decisive conference in Copenhagen next month.

The rising casualties in the illegal small-scale mining operations in Nueva Vizcaya has prompted provincial officials to cross party lines in an attempt to stamp out the practice.