The UK has ratified the world's first comprehensive treaty on tackling climate change, the British government said.

ENGLAND: A judge has handed nine-month jail sentences to two prisoners who starred in a three-minute rap video recorded behind bars on an illegally held mobile phone.

Marine mammal, birds, fish and reptile populations have almost halved since 1970, according to a report which is a “wake-up call” to tackle the crisis in the world’s oceans.

Wildlife populations around the world have more than halved in just four decades in the face of unsustainable human consumption, a report has warned.

Countries agreed a deal today to push for a new climate treaty, salvaging the latest round of United Nations climate talks from the brink of collapse.

MORE than 600 new species, including the world’s smallest primate and a colour-changing gecko, have been found in Madagascar in just over a decade, a report said yesterday.

More than 190 countries have struck an agreement at the latest round of UN climate talks that puts efforts to secure a new international deal to tackle global warming back on track.

TWENTY-FOUR hours, 365 days a year, trucks the size of three-storey houses roll across an Arctic wasteland, scooping up a sticky sand that has become the holy grail of global oil companies and multinational investors.