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The internet giant's New York headquarters have fallen prey to a city-wide outbreak of bed bugsThey are reddish-brown, smaller than an apple seed, have a taste for human blood and when they bite they itch like hell. And now the onward march of the common bedbug has extended into cyberspace.The searc

These stunning images from August include Moscow covered in smoke, heavy rains in Pakistan and plankton blooms changing the colour of the North Atlantic ocean

The Zen teacher Thich Nhat Hanh explains in his new book how a Buddhist approach could benefit ecology? Zen and the art of protecting the planetThere is something extraordinarily child-like about the 84-year-old Zen Buddhist master Thich Nhat Hanh.To portray him out of context could make him appear

It is time to go blackberry picking, and I have already got stained fingers from this black, juicy, wild fruit which I enjoy gathering and then turning into puddings. The ripe wheat in the fields has been cut down and is now being carted away, leaving confused rabbits and field mice in bewilderment

The star of an Oscar-winning film about dolphin hunting in Japan delivered a petition to the country's US embassy calling for an end to the practice. The petition was signed by 1.7 million people from 151 countries.

Thirteen workers flee drilling platform but oil company denies spillFresh fears about drilling in the Gulf of Mexico were raised today when fire forced workers to abandon an oil and gas platform, just six months after the BP explosion that created an environmental disaster in the region.The company,

Scientists say desertification of the mountain grasslands of the Tibetan plateau is accelerating climate changeLike generations of Tibetan nomads before him, Phuntsok Dorje makes a living raising yaks and other livestock on the vast alpine grasslands that provide a thatch on the roof of the world.Bu

Reducing funding for household generation of renewable energy will jeopardise job creation and energy security, Huhne is toldA coalition of green, countryside and housing groups has warned energy secretary Chris Huhne not to cut subsidies for green electricity and heating as part of the government's

The world's most established fisheries certifier is failing on its promises as rapidly as it gains prominence, according to leading fisheries experts.

Reports benchmarking progress on noise management have been published.

Research suggests deposition of particle pollution could be high around wind turibines.

Record and upload sounds to the British Library UK Soundmap.

Bosses to be quizzed over safety failures that led to 33 miners being trapped, as engineers begin drilling rescue shaftThe owners of Chile's San Esteban mining company faced questions yesterday from a government committee about safety failures which led to the accident that has trapped 33 miners und

Coral reefs are sensitive to climate change and track sea level. New observations show that an extensive coral reef existed in the southern Pacific Ocean thousands of years ago. Researchers used multi-beam sonar, coring, and dating to examine a relict reef discovered in water about 20-25 meters (65-82 feet) deep around Lord Howe Island in the southern Pacific Ocean.

The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, a charity which rescues and rehabilitates orphaned African elephants, is holding an exhibition of pictures taken by three of the world's most celebrated wildlife photographers - Joachim Schmeisser, Michael Nichols and Robert Carr-Hartley. The free show will be at the Royal Geographical Society in London from 6 to 10 September 2010

Social networking site under fire over intention to run giant new data centre mainly on coal-powered electricitySocial networking website Facebook is coming under unprecedented pressure from its users to switch to renewable energy. In one of the web's fastest-growing environmental campaigns, Greenpe

New research shows motorists no longer consider cyclists weirdy beardy Guardian readers - in fact, they envy usNews just in from the world of academia: cycling is no longer considered the preserve of the sort of hippies historically associated with this newspaper. It is even widely thought of as "co