ICELAND:  Aluminium Worries Environmentalists
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REYKJAVIK, Dec. 4 (IPS) - Nature conservationists are becoming increasingly  more concerned that Iceland will soon have more aluminium plants  than it can handle because it has an abundant supply of cheap,  renewable energy.
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A tin bath on the cliffs of northern Iceland, where locals take a dip to treat skin complaints, could help scientists give an early warning of big earthquakes and save thousands of lives.
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Alcoa Inc. , the world's largest aluminum producer, on Thursday warned that third-quarter results would fall far short of Wall Street expectations, hurt by plant shutdowns, restructuring costs and weakness in some markets.
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With all the hand-wringing about the economic perils of falling populations, there could be one beneficiary: the environment.
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Alaska's Aleutian Island chain, where a broken cargo ship has been leaking fuel oil for five days, needs the type of environmental protections that are given to better-known areas, a marine wildlife activist said on Monday.
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Europeans may claim leadership in fighting global warming, but they get black marks from environmentalists for their fishing policy.
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The Department of the Interior is about to approve a regulation that would allow and even encourage mountain top mining, which involves blasting off the top of a mountain and dumping the remains in nearby valleys and streams. Yes, that's as bad for the environment as it sounds.
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High-level politicians from the eight nations that make up the Arctic Council met in Reykjavik on Wednesday to discuss ways of combating global warming, which researchers say could melt away the Arctic ice cover within the next 100 years.
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TROMSOE, Norway  - The world marked Environment Day on Tuesday with cheerful events like tree-planting and solar cooking in the heat of Asia, but also gloomier talk in the not-so-frozen north of melting polar caps.
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The record warmth in the Alps has brought home the profound threat of climate change to Europeâs ski industry.
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Global warming (news - web sites) is heating the Arctic almost twice as fast as the rest of the planet in a thaw that threatens the livelihoods
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Alaska's Aleutian Island chain, where  a broken cargo ship has been leaking fuel oil for five days,  needs the type of environmental protections that are given to  better-known areas, a marine wildlife activist said on Monday.
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A Japanese whaling ship on fire off the coast of Antarctica has sparked fears of an environmental disaster if the ship's 1,000 tonnes of fuel oil and chemicals leaks.
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REYKJAVIK, Sep 18 (IPS) - Controversy is building up over a proposal to erect  a set of three hydroelectric power plants and their associated  dams in the lower Thjorsa river in South Iceland.
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Iceland is to begin exporting whalemeat, which campaigners say breaches wildlife trading rules.
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The conservation agency World Wildlife Fund, or WWF, has warned that man-made chemicals pose a serious threat to polar bears. The WWF says three new scientific studies show
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Worries about government actions to cool economic growth reverberate around the globe.