BEIJING, March 5 (AFP) - China has spent 10 million yuan (1.5 million dollars) on computers for thousands of members of an advisory body attending the annual parliamentary session -- in an effort to reduce paper waste.

HELSINKI, Feb 10 (AFP) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said that despite international efforts to find green energy solutions, "dried dung" and other alternative sources could not replace fossil fuels in coming decades.

BUTTERWORTH: This is indeed not a dream but reality, where eco-friendly utensils made of agricultural waste such as sugarcane and corn residue are to be launched in January in Penang.

SYDNEY, Dec 30 (AFP) -- The winner of Australia's "Best Job in the World" contest has survived a sting from a potentially deadly jellyfish just days before the end of his dream stint on the Great Barrier Reef.

Coincidentally, the Christmas theme for AEON Bukit Tinggi Shopping Centre this year was environmental protection. The mall was decorated with more than 1,5000 recyclable bottles, plastic bags and egg cartons, creating a “green Christmas” for its shoppers.

Green-faced extra-terrestrials with bouncy antennae wandered through the UN global warming talks in Copenhagen to the Japanese delegation on Thursday where they demanded: "Take me to your climate leader."

It began 10 years ago as a small-scale touch of satire: a wee plastic T. Rex and a lump of coal, awarded to the nation deemed to have done most to have held up, diluted or sabotaged world climate talks.

Britain's biggest water company lifted the lid Monday on how it slashed costs by burning customers' faeces to make electricity.

At a warehouse near Manila's infamous Smokey Mountain dump, slum-dwellers working for a British-led charity are turning rubbish into fashion items that are proving a hit in top-end London shops.

A Taiwan crematorium plans to use exhaust from its ovens to power its air-conditioning system, officials said Wednesday, in a move critics blasted as insensitive to mourning relatives.