To help ring in the new year, the BBC's science and To source

Australia on Saturday launched its ‘Green Army’ which plans to recruit up to 15,000 young people for projects to conserve and rehabilitate the environment — the biggest land care mobilisation in To source

When environmentalists proclaimed the first Earth Day, on this date in 1970, the air was filled with doomsday predictions. At the initial rallies to mark the day, people warned of overpopulation, a denuded planet, hundreds of millions of people starving to death, a new Ice Age or the greenhouse effect. Many — though not all, obviously — of those forecasts were off. To source

President Pranab Mukherjee Friday said India needed to change its agricultural and industrial practices to reduce toxicity in food, water and environment. To source

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany are working with tire maker Continental to develop a technique for producing tires from the tenacious and prolific weed. To source