Apple has rejected Greenpeace’s claims that it is not focused on renewables after activisits this morning staged an hour-long rooftop protest at the computer giant’s European headquarters in Cork.

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.

Delegates from more than 190 countries struggled today to break a deadlock on setting targets to preserve animals, plants and ecosystems, raising fears the two-week UN meeting might end in failure.

HUNGARY’S top investigative agency opened a criminal probe into the toxic sludge flood yesterday while the European Union and environmental groups warned the disaster could spread down the Danube and have long-term consequences for several nations.

US President Barack Obama joins world leaders in Copenhagen today in a final push to secure a new deal on climate change amid growing optimism that an agreement can be reached.

JAPAN’S next prime minister Yukio Hatoyama has delighted environmental activists but worried business leaders by vowing to slash greenhouse gas emissions by 25% from 1990 levels by 2020.

France will this week announce a series of sweeping green policies aimed at making the country an environmental pioneer.

A coalition of conservation-minded nations have managed to thwart Japan’s attempt to form a pro-whaling majority on the International Whaling Commission and reverse the moratorium on commercial hunting that went into effect two decades ago.

Rising sea levels, disappearing glaciers in the Alps and more deadly heat waves are coming for Europeans because of global warming, Europe’s environmental agency has warned.

Greenpeace activists accused of delaying a missile defence test in California have admitted lesser charges.

The trial of the Greenpeace ‘‘Star Wars 17’’ was beginning later today in Los Angeles.