In an age when technology reigns, shared classes between children on different sides of the planet are nothing new, but when they journey into space simultaneously that’s a whole new frontier.

IT is ironic that more people than ever might identify a snow leopard, though fewer and fewer of us have seen one in the wild or understand its needs.

Families carrying photos of lost loved ones streamed into a plaza near “ground zero” in New York today to observe the eighth anniversary of the World Trade Centre attack, wiping tears and raindrops from their faces under dreary skies.

A series of deep-blue high-mountain lakes became Afghanistan’s first provisional national park today, as the violence-racked country took a first step toward protecting one of its finest natural treasures.

Leonardo DiCaprio and Oprah Winfrey are the greenest celebrities in the world, according to a new poll to unearth the most popular eco-friendly stars.

Eco-friendly actor Edward Norton celebrated Earth Day on Tuesday by encouraging the movie industry to be more green.

EYE-catching signs in their hundreds went up across the country yesterday.

The Government must get off the fence and declare Ireland totally against genetically modified produce, it was claimed today.

Hundreds of businesses throughout Ireland have declared themselves GM-free zones as part of an initiative to coincide with Earth Day 2005.

Environmental campaigners claimed today that local authorities had adopted half-hearted measures to reduce Ireland’s rubbish mountain.

I READ recently about an American school principal who found he was prohibited by law from saying a prayer over the public address system at the start of a high school football game. This was on the grounds that the prayer would offend non-Christian minorities.