Reuters - South Korea may build more than nine new nuclear power reactors by 2030, raising the ratio of nuclear power use to 55 percent from the current 37 percent, the Yonhap news agency reported on Sunday.

Reuters - Australia has become a refuge for a new endangered species: the high-flying banker.

AFP - Pakistan will advance the official clock by one hour at the stroke of midnight Saturday to use more daylight time in a bid to conserve energy, the interior ministry said.

AFP - Iran said on Saturday it has resumed supplying natural gas to Turkey five days after an explosion damaged a pipeline between the two countries, state media reported.

AFP - UN talks on Friday yielded a package of measures aimed at staving off what scientists fear is a mass extinction of Earth's species and blocking irreparable damage to the ecosystems on which human life depends.

AP - Delegates to a U.N. conference on biological diversity agreed Friday to develop measures to counter bio-piracy and protect marine wildlife and rainforests.

AFP - UN talks on biodiversity yielded a package of measures Friday for safeguard dwindling wildlife and threatened ecosystems.

Reuters - A bill going to the U.S. Senate next week seeking deep cuts in U.S. greenhouse gases by 2050 is a "first step" but not enough to avert damaging climate change, the head of the U.N. Climate Panel said on Friday.

AFP - Turkey's environment minister said Friday he has recommended that the government sign the Kyoto Protocol on fighting global warming, the Anatolia news agency reported.

AFP - A Greenpeace ship protesting the overfishing of bluefin tuna was targetted Friday by fishermen in the Mediterranean Sea, a spokeswoman for the environmental group told the Anatolia news agency.