Trade-off!

The European Union plans to introduce a trading scheme for carbon dioxide emissions

GUINEA-BISSAU

Senegal

Cosmetic ban

The US and the EU clash

The stakes just got higher

Banning science from meeting fiction

Is quite different from letting politics crassly dictate research

Prescription for relief

Crisis deepens

EU falls short

Forest grants

Further endangered

Russia ratifies Kyoto Protocol

Overwhelming approval by both houses of Parliament

Thumbs up for Monsanto's maize

Who's afraid of the Kyoto Protocol?

Russian president Putin?

Putin's passion

Safe passage

The EU might let aviation sector trade emissions

Trouble's back door entry

No leeway

In Brief

Whaling rights

Dutch minister upsets farmers

Recycling spree

After paper and plastic, it is the turn of car parts to be recycled

Breaking the logjam

The director-general of the WTO promises dialogue with environmental groups

Grant to save Syrian seas