Spiegel: Can a climate catastrophe still be averted? Scientists voice pessimism in a new study, which concludes that no matter what the Western industrialized nations do, China's greenhouse emissions will be hard to stop. It sounds like wishful thinking: The United States, under new President Barack...

Spiegel: Can a climate catastrophe still be averted? Scientists voice pessimism in a new study, which concludes that no matter what the Western industrialized nations do, China's greenhouse emissions will be hard to stop. It sounds like wishful thinking: The United States, under new President Barack...

Spiegel: Can a climate catastrophe still be averted? Scientists voice pessimism in a new study, which concludes that no matter what the Western industrialized nations do, China's greenhouse emissions will be hard to stop. It sounds like wishful thinking: The United States, under new President Barack...

Spiegel: Can a climate catastrophe still be averted? Scientists voice pessimism in a new study, which concludes that no matter what the Western industrialized nations do, China's greenhouse emissions will be hard to stop. It sounds like wishful thinking: The United States, under new President Barack...

Reuters: Anti-whaling activists involved in a collision with a Japanese whaling ship near Antarctica accused whalers of using water cannon and acoustic weapons against them and vowed on Saturday to further obstruct the hunt. The U.S.-based Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, which Tokyo sharply rebuk...

Associated Press: Japanese whalers blasted conservationists with a water cannon and hurled hunks of metal and golf balls at them in a clash today in icy Antarctic waters, an anti-whaling group said. Two members of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society were lightly injured in the early morning fracas...

Asia Times: For anyone interested in the weather, the good news is that 2008 was cooler than the previous year. The bad news is that the world is still getting hotter and that greater variability in weather brought on by climate change resulted in or contributed to extreme weather that killed hundre...

Agence France-Presse: "Please erase your image of electric cars being like golf carts," a spokesman for Japan's fourth-biggest automaker said before taking a zero-emission vehicle out for a spin. As mass-produced electric cars come closer to reality, their makers are trying to polish the i...

Asia Times: For anyone interested in the weather, the good news is that 2008 was cooler than the previous year. The bad news is that the world is still getting hotter and that greater variability in weather brought on by climate change resulted in or contributed to extreme weather that killed hundre...

Australian: CORAL reefs devastated by the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami that struck coastal regions around the Indian Ocean are recovering rapidly in parts of Indonesia. Surveys at 60 sites along 800km of hard-hit Aceh coastline found that high densities of "baby corals" were thriving. The good ...