Latest green, wildlife and climate change news and features from the UK and around the world.

People in flood-hit Cumbria were braced for further misery with more heavy rain and flooding forecast.

Householders who recycle could earn £130 a year in shopping vouchers under plans to be unveiled by shadow chancellor George Osborne.

The UK could halve the carbon emissions from homes and buildings by the end of the next decade - and create thousands of "green" jobs in the process, the UK Green Building Council has said.

Climate change could increase the likelihood of civil war in sub-Saharan Africa by 50% within the next 20 years, leading to hundreds of thousands of deaths, it has been claimed.

Jordan's Queen Rania and Princess Haya are among the latest "climate allies" who have signed up to an international campaign calling for a fair, effective and ambitious deal to tackle global warming to be agreed in Copenhagen in December.

A tornado has ripped through a town leaving a trail of devastation in its wake.

A conservationist has described his bizarre discovery of a new species of chameleon in an African forest.

The European Union needs to be more ambitious with its plans to cut climate emissions in the coming decade, as its current proposals are "embarrassingly weak", campaigners have warned.

Fewer than two in five consumers fully understand "green" car technology, a survey has revealed.