Global warming has accelerated since the 1970s and broken more countries’ temperature records than ever before in the first decade of the new millennium, UN climate experts say.

PERHAPS the EU is not really serious about the environment. Farmers worry about EU measures to cut greenhouse gases, but wonder if they may be part of a political bluff mounted in Brussels for reasons unknown to the average punter.

WHETHER to genetically modify (GM) food sources or not is one of the most serious decisions mankind has ever had to take.

A massive mile-thick brown pollution haze has settled over vast areas of the planet, changing weather patterns and threatening health and crops, according to the UN.

A 3KM-THICK cloud of brown soot and other pollutants hanging over Asia is darkening cities, killing thousands and damaging crops — but may be holding off the worst effects of global warming, the UN said.

Pope Benedict XVI urged tens of thousands of young Catholics packing a football stadium to resist the temptations of wealth, power and other “snares of evil,” and told them to promote life from “its beginning to natural end.”

CUTS in emissions of greenhouse gases can mute the worst impacts of global warming, such as water shortages for billions of people or extinction of almost half of Amazonian tree species, a draft UN report shows.

New restrictions to try to protect rapidly disappearing mahogany forests by regulating trade in the €86.8m a year business will enter into force this week, a UN environment body said today.

A WILDLIFE park was celebrating a little monkey business yesterday with the arrival of two babies who will bolster a species considered to be one of the most endangered in the world.