AFP - For 40 years, people living along the shores of Lake Chad have watched helplessly as it vanished before their eyes.

AFP - Fresh water, the stuff of life, is set to become even more precious as global warming begins to bite, experts warned ahead of World Water Day on Thursday.

Reuters - The minority Conservative government, pressured to do more on the environment, will phase out some oil sands tax incentives, introduce rebates for hybrid vehicles, tax gas guzzlers and subsidize renewable fuels.

Reuters - Five Greenpeace activists blockaded the main gates at Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper's residence on Monday, in protest of his failure to support the Kyoto protocol on climate change.

Reuters - Canada's energy industry would have to cut its carbon emissions by up to 46 percent or pay billions of dollars a year in penalties under a climate change plan by the opposition Liberal Party.

Reuters - This has been the world's warmest winter since record-keeping began more than a century ago, the U.S. government agency that tracks weather reported on Thursday.

Reuters - Prime Minister Stephen Harper again rejected short-term cuts in Canada's greenhouse gas emissions on Tuesday, as he announced more federal funding for environmental technology.