Companies 'need green directors'

Slow progress on ocean protection
Two year after pledging to protect 10% of the oceans, governments have protected less than 1%, a survey finds.

Bush 'seeks to ease wildlife law'
US environmentalists accuse President Bush of trying to rush through changes to the Endangered Species Act.

Sparrow numbers 'plummet by 68%'
The loss of green spaces in Britain has caused the number of house sparrows to drop sharply in the past 30 years.

Mammoth's genome pieced together
A US-Russian team announces that it has sequenced most of the genome of a woolly mammoth found in Siberia.

Final plea on Earth observation
Leading Earth observation scientists urge Gordon Brown to back Europe's environmental monitoring project, GMES.