Unfavourable winds on Sunday forced a Frenchman to abandon his latest attempt to cross the English Channel in a pedal-powered airship, his support team said.

Steaks out of a test-tube? The animal rights group PETA is putting up a million dollar reward for anyone who by 2012 can grow in-vitro meat that looks and tastes like the real thing.

Tens of thousands of Australian households will have their garbage and recycling monitored by tracking devices placed in their trash bins, a move dubbed "Bin Brother" by local media.

A British adventurer who reached Timbuktu in a truck fuelled by chocolate said Tuesday he now wants to travel to China on a rubbish-powered aircraft.

Shoppers in China will have to pay for plastic bags at supermarkets and other retail stores as part of a nationwide crackdown on the environmentally damaging items, the government has announced.

The leader of the world's Anglicans is hitting the video-sharing website YouTube for the first time on Monday to preach environmental awareness in his New Year message.

On Wednesday, a song on climate change penned by Indonesian President Yudhoyono serenaded environment ministers from 180 nations who were meeting in Bali to debate climate change.

Parents who have more than two children should be charged a lifelong climate change tax to offset the effect of their extra greenhouse gas emissions, an Australian medical expert has proposed.

Braving the sultry tropical heat of Bali, two dancing penguins made an appeal to a UN conference on climate change, warning that rising temperatures were putting the majestic Antarctic birds at risk.

Delegates at a key climate change summit feeling guilty about exhaust-spewing taxis have another solution - call a solar taxi that has travelled over land to Asia all the way from Switzerland.