Reuters Video: Environment

Anti-whalers target Japan embassy

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:42:01 -0500

Feb 8 - Activists from the environmental campaign group Greenpeace erect a life-sized whale fin replica opposite the Japanese embassy in Berlin.

How to grow more renewable energy

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 11:34:58 -0500

Feb 5 - Researchers are trying to breed plants that could be better sources of renewable energy. A team at Aberystwyth University in Wales is looking improving yields of fast growing plants without increasing inputs such as fertilizers.

China quake pandas go to nursery

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:22:01 -0500

Feb 02 - Sixteen infant pandas born after the devastating Sichuan earthquake start their first day of nursery, to some fanfare on Chinese state television.

Lithuania's birds suffering on ice

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:57:01 -0500

Feb 2 - Lithuanians take part in a campaign to save birds from starving in bitter winter conditions. Helen Long reports.

Rain revives Spanish wetlands.

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:52:01 -0500

Feb 2 - Wildlife retunrs to Spain's most important wetlands after rain brings flooding.

New York company makes biodiesel

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:26:48 -0500

Feb 1 - A New York entrepreneur and environmental activist collects millions of liters of used cooking oil from restaurants to make clean-burning biodiesel fuel. Tara Cleary reports.

Ocean robots to explore mysteries

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:40:35 -0500

Feb 1 - Researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego are developing swarms of miniature robotic ocean explorers that will help plug gaps of knowledge about key ocean processes.

Solar solution to pollution

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:07:13 -0500

Jan 29 - Students in Manila have designed and built a solar-powered race car they hope will outshine competitors at next year's World Solar Challenge race across Australia.

Transparent goldfish offer clarity

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:10:41 -0500

Jan 29 - Researchers in Japan have developed a transparent goldfish designed to help in scientific research and education. In a country where animal dissection is controversial, the development is being seen as a breakthrough. Rob Muir reports.

Extreme cold threatens Mongolians

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:52:01 -0500

Jan 28 - An unusually severe winter following a summer drought risks pushing almost 200,000 Mongolian nomadic herders into hunger and deeper poverty