Iranian and Iraqi officials signed an eight-article agreement on cooperation in the field of environment protection

The document was inked by head of Iran's Department of Environment Fatemeh Vaez-Javadi and Iraqi Minister of Environment Nermin Othman in Tehran.

Speaking to reporters prior to signing the agreement, the Iranian official said the document would facilitate Tehran-Baghdad cooperation for further protection of their natural resources.

Environment-friendly homes to be shown at China's Future House

The 10 houses will be on display for six years, including this year's Summer Olympics. Organizers anticipate that more than 5 million visitors will see them.

A consortium that includes the Warrenville, Ill.-based Alternative Energy Living Foundation as principal managing sponsor, Florida International University as founding academic sponsor and the National Defense Council Foundation as the main general sponsor is backing the American entry.

Nigeria: For Safe Environment, Plant a Tree

From developing nations to industrial countries, global climate affects every one. Global warming is one of the most serious challenges facing the entire world today.

To protect the health and economic well-being of current and future generations, most countries are trying to reduce the emissions of heat-trapping gasses by using the technology know-how and practical solutions of planting trees.

G-8 must address global economy / Environment not only crucial issue in Hokkaido summit agenda

The environment will be the biggest item on the agenda at the Group of Eight summit of major nations July 7-9 at the Lake Toya hot srping resort in Toyakocho, Hokkaido. Above all, finding ways to cope with global warming is sure to become a focal issue.

But the world faces a host of other important problems as well. Given increasing concern about the global economic slowdown, it is necessary to speed preparations for economic discussions at the summit. If the world economy is thrown into chaos, causing a serious slowdown in world business, it is feared that efforts to protect the environment would be adversely affected.

A year for saving our environment

In fact, nothing is more important for the Earth's future than saving its environment from humans. And probably nothing is more difficult to achieve. As for the charge that global warming is science fiction, the fact that delegates from nearly 190 countries met in Bali last month to confront climate change should silence the skeptics. If the governments of virtually every country in the world can't agree exactly what to do about this crisis, they at least concur that it exists and demands urgent, comprehensive action.

No wonder. In 2007, a series of landmark reports from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned of catastrophic consequences including devastating floods, droughts, severe weather and species extinction on massive levels unless there are sharp cutbacks in greenhouse gas emissions.