Kayakers arrive in NZ after 62 days

"Two adventurers who spent two months paddling across the Tasman Sea in a kayak arrived in New Zealand today, becoming the first people to kayak there from Australia. Several thousand people crowded the shore at Ngamotu Beach, near New Plymouth on New Zealand's west coast, to...

World first: Flying high on pond scum

If someone had suggested 10 years ago that a major airlines was investigating the use of pond scum as a possible alternative to regular jet fuel, they would have been laughed out of the waiting lounge. But here it...

African fish stocks in danger

Last week Greenpeace launched a new document, Trading Away Our Oceans, which uses official data from government sources to show that further trade liberalization of fisheries is a disaster for marine environment...

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