Standing up to energy producers and getting them to leave fossil fuels in the ground is the only way to fight climate change globally, writes Lili Fuhr    

New Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd today urged America to follow his country’s climate change lead and agree to limit its greenhouse gas emissions.

I’VE JUST finished reading rather a good book which would make an excellent Christmas present for someone with an interest in wildlife and the environment. It’s called Saving Planet Earth by Tony Juniper and it’s published by Collins with the permission of the BBC.

A THREE-KILOMETRE deep blanket of sooty pollution stretching across southern Asia threatens to inflict untold economic damage to the region and put hundreds of thousands of people at risk, scientists said yesterday.