China's top legislator on Friday called on the media to increase supervision over energy consumption and pollutant emissions to assist the authorities' efforts to control pollution.

Tiffany & Co., one of the world's premier jewelers, today marked the addition of clean, emissions-free, renewable solar power to its energy portfolio with the dedication of one of the East Coast's largest commercial solar projects

Nearly four decades after a fuel oil spill polluted the beaches of Cape Cod, researchers have found the first compelling evidence for lingering, chronic biological effects on a marsh that otherwise appears to have recovered.

China is ready to actively participate in international cooperation on climate change in a responsible attitude, said Chinese State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan in his talks with visiting British Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott on Monday.

Democratic presidential rivals Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama urged thousands to make environmental protection a top campaign issue. "Today is Earth Day, and I personally believe every day should be Earth Day," said Clinton. "We have a duty to protect God's creation and we have a responsibility to repair the damage that we do as we go on in life."

China and the United States have inked a letter of intent to facilitate cooperation in improving the quality of farm chemicals as well as its pollution control, a U.S. official said on Friday.

Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Republican governor of California, is scheduled to address this year's conference of Britain's Conservative Party. Party officials said Sunday in London that Schwarzenegger would speak about climate change at the party's annual meeting.

The European Union's top environmental official has strongly criticized the United States and Australia, for rejecting a global treaty on reducing carbon emissions.