TAIPEI, March 18 (AFP) - Taiwan aims to engage in international carbon trading despite its diplomatic isolation by helping its allies in Africa and the Asia Pacific develop clean energy projects, an official said Thursday.

JAKARTA, March 18 (AFP) - Indonesian palm oil giant Sinar Mas rejected claims of environmental vandalism Thursday after Nestle, the world's biggest food company, dropped it as a supplier.

BEIJING, March 17 (AFP) - Millions of people face drinking water shortages in southwestern China because of a once-a-century drought that has dried up rivers and threatens vast farmlands, state media reported Wednesday.

LA PAZ, March 17 (AFP) - An alternative "people's conference" on climate change in the Bolivian city of Cochabamba in April will seek to advance an international global warming referendum, organizers said Tuesday.

LONDON, March 17 (AFP) - Britain's advertising watchdog has banned two government adverts for overstating the threat from climate change, it said on Wednesday.

TOKYO, March 16 (AFP) - Japanese electronics giant Sanyo said Tuesday it had opened two "solar parking lots" in Tokyo where 100 electric hybrid bicycles can be recharged from sunlight-powered panels.

SERGELEN, March 15 (AFP) - After enduring a harsh winter last year that killed almost half of her 1,000 head of livestock, Baatariin Erdenechimeg moved halfway across Mongolia in search of a new start.

WASHINGTON, March 12 (AFP) - Climate change is pushing some bird species "towards extinction," US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar warned Thursday as a new report on the threats facing North American birds was released.

The National Planetarium will be switching off its lights for an hour from 8.30pm on March 27 in support of Earth Hour 2010.

Malaysia is taking the right step by encouraging the development of green industries to ensure sustainable development, conserving the environment for future generations and building industries of the future, said Volker U. Friedrich, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Malaysia-Europe Forum (MEF).