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The Prime Minister is asking people to turn off their old lights and switch to energy efficient lightbulbs in the battle to beat climate change.

The race to a nuclear future began last night, as operators promised the first new power stations within a decade, and French and British companies vied for the contracts. Ministers ended years of uncertainty by declaring that nuclear power was “clean, secure and affordable”.

A local authority on the edge of Greater Manchester has noted that one group of Britons are failing to do their bit to reduce Britain's Carbon emissions. Tameside Council  have suggested that heat from the burning bodies at Dukinfield Crematorium can be used to heat the building, which needs heating when mourners went to commit their oved one.

Clouds on the outer edge of the Earth’s atmosphere in space are operating as an “exquisite” temperature gauge monitoring climate change.

Negotiators trying to agree a road map for a new international climate change deal finally managed to broker a compromise deal after days of wrangling.

The plains west of Sydney are turning to dust because of the hot weather during 2007, said the Bureau of Meteorology.More than 40 per cent of the county's rural income came from the Murray-Darling basin during good years.

The comeback of coal as an energy source cleared its first hurdle yesterday when a council approved plans for Britain’s first coal-fired power station in 20 years located in Medway, Kent.

She’s the Mrs Beeton of recycling. Liz Goodwin is Britain's recycler-in-chief, the woman tasked with changing habits and stopping us clogging up landfill sites.

An environmental “stealth tax” on business could raise hundreds of million of pounds for the taxman over the next five years through the auction of a large chunk of the next round of carbon emission permits.

United Nations climate change summit held in Bali went past its deadline yesterday. American and European ministers tried to reach a deal on Washington’s opposition to mandatory limits on greenhouse gas emissions.

In some cases, recycling is unquestionably the best option. We have, after all, been melting down and recycling metals since long before the word recycling was invented, because it has made economic sense to do so. But to make a blanket assumption that only recycling can save the planet, as current policy says, owes more to religion than science.

Gordon Brown will insist today that Britain must be a world leader in the fight against climate change - hinting that more ambitious reductions in greenhouse gas emissions may be necessary.

In his first major speech on the environment since becoming Prime Minister, he will underscore the need to act immediately to combat global warming.

Despite claims that he has been under pressure to curb commitments to reducing carbon emissions Mr Brown will stress he is looking at the possibility of making them even tougher in the UK.