Australia, a rich country, has frequently lectured Indonesia, its poor neighbour, on felling of its forests.

BANGALORE, Oct 13 (IPS) - A great variety of endangered wildlife species end up feeding the illegal market for Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) thanks to poor enforcement in stopping the trade, say experts and activists.

SANTIAGO, Oct 11 (Tierramérica) - As greenhouse gas emissions drive global warming and fuel prices continue to soar, pedalling has come back in style in many cities of the industrialised world. In Chile, as well, public bicycle services, bike routes and special parking areas are some of the initiatives currently being developed.

BARCELONA, Oct 10 (IPS/Terraviva) - Several environmental organisations have asked the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) to stop accepting funding from Shell, the giant international oil company.

TAMPA, Florida, Oct 10 (IPS) - If an experiment to plant sweet sorghum in rural Florida and convert it to fuel ethanol pans out, it could herald a fundamental change in how the U.S. and other countries create and use renewable bio-energy, researchers say.

CAPE TOWN, Oct 10 (IPS) - Africa risks losing up to 50 percent of its indigenous species over the next century due to global warming.

UNITED NATIONS, Oct 9 (IPS) - As climate change, sea-level rise, earthquakes and floods threaten countries such as Bangladesh, Tuvalu, Vietnam and Tajikistan, the Tokyo-based U.N. University (UNU) warns that by 2050, some 200 million people will be displaced by environmental problems.

JOHANNESBURG, Oct 9 (IPS) - When the magungu bird flies higher in the sky than usual and seems to float in the air in its passage from south to north, the Abasuba people living on the islands of Kenya's Lake Victoria and on the highlands near the lake know the rains are on their way and that it is time to plant.

BARCELONA, Oct 9 (IPS/Terraviva) - Environmentalists are challenging dubious new proposals to reduce the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

ALTO DEL CARMEN, Chile, Oct 9 (IPS) - The Diaguita indigenous community in Huasco Alto, surrounded by rich gold, silver and copper deposits in the northern Chilean region of Atacama, are engaged in a struggle to prevent mining projects from infringing on their territory and destroying their way of life and ancestral identity.

REYKJAVIK, Oct 9 (IPS) - At the Hellisheidi geothermal power station, located about 30 km east of Reykjavik, Icelanders are developing novel ways of capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) and hydrogen sulphide (H2S) that are emitted from the plant.

HAMBANTOTA, Oct 9 (IPS) - Sri Lankan rice farmers who fought against President Mahinda Rajapakse and his powerful brothers, trying to construct an international airport on their paddies, say they won because their cause was just and enjoyed popular support.

BARCELONA, Oct 8 (IPS/Terraviva) - Do those 8,000 tonnes of carbon footprints arising from participation in the World Conservation Congress in Barcelona show the way beyond Kyoto? Will the marathon congregation significantly reduce biodiversity loss and halt creeping desertification?

BRUSSELS, Oct 8 (IPS) - The outcome of a crucial European Parliament vote on tackling climate change this week was not as negative as many green activists had feared. Yet it also suggested that the rhetoric of European politicians on how they must exercise leadership to ward off the threat posed by rising temperatures is not being matched with decisive action.

BARCELONA, Oct 8 (IPS) - Royal Dutch Shell, with an annual turnover of more than 350 billion dollars from extracting oil and gas, mainly in third world countries, says it is up to governments rather than companies like Shell to take the lead in finding solutions for a sustainable energy future.

MANILA, Oct 8 (IPS) - So where is the pandemic? This is a question most often asked of health experts years after they warned about a pandemic influenza that could infect up to 35 percent of the world's population.

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