From January 2009, 50 two-seater, all-electric Mini E cars will be whizzing around the streets of Berlin.

More than 50 have died on the north west coast of Tasmania.

Despite the deaths Australian rescuers say they have managed to release 11 of the pilot whales at a nearby beach where they stand a better chance of survival.

Where do the millions of computer monitors, cell phones and other electronic refuse our society generates end up?

They are one of the first twins delivered this year at the Bifengcia base of the China Giant Panda Protection and Research Center in Yaan, in the Sichuan Province.

The cubs are said to be in good health just five months after an earthquake left an important panda habitat, the Wolong Nature Reserve, largely destroyed.

Lesley Stahl reports on the race to develop and produce a viable electric car being waged between Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and Detroit auto executives.

Lesley Stahl reports on the race to develop and produce a viable electric car being waged between Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and Detroit auto executives.

A German zookeeper who lovingly raised celebrity polar cub Knut at Berlin zoo has died of a heart attack aged 44.

Berlin police said Thomas Doerflein was found dead in his apartment in a western district of Berlin near the zoo. Doerflein shot to fame and gained scores of female fans when he hand-reared Knut after he was rejected by his mother.

Officials in Galveston made a daring rescue by helicopter after a man in a pick-up truck was stranded in Ike's high tides on the Texas coastline.

Weatherman Dave Price gets soaked by the rising tide as Hurricane Ike approaches Galveston. As if once wasn't enough, the sea took his shoes out from under him.

Is global warming thinning the ice on the North Pole?

A first hand look?

With the price of oil climbing ever higher more automakers are investigating the fuels of the future. Harry Smith talks with Volkswagen's John Tillman about their new hydrogen-powered prototype.

Tofu factory waste is being turned into energy in Indonesia.

Indonesians in a central Java village are turning tofu factory waste into energy, reducing both air and water pollution and offering an alternative to fossil fuels. Soy-rich wastewater is left to ferment, and the biogas produced is used by two tofu factories and 20 households in the area.

With billions around the world living without a toilet, sanitation experts are pushing to get this most basic need on the political agenda.

Better sanitation improves human health, promotes economic and social development and also helps the environment.

That's the arguments development professionals want governments and businesses to hear to help improve the sanitation facilities of the 40 percent of the world's population who live without a toilet.

While most primates face the threat of extinction, in Brazil, Golden Lion Tamarins are bucking the trend.

To save this species from extinction, the Brazilian conservationists says there must be at least 2,000 tamarins living in protected areas by 2025. Golden lion tamarin monkeys are among the world's rarest mammals, with only about 1,400 living in the wild.

Conservationists at the Buenos Aires Zoo in Argentina work to return an endangered Crowned Solitary Eagle to her habitat.

Shampalwe is a young, female eagle who hopefully will mate in her new home.

Sarah Irwin reports.

China has two new unofficial Olympic mascots. They are giant panda twins born on the second day of the 2008 Beijing Games.

The twins were born to 9-year-old 'Qi Zhen', who gave birth after a pregnancy extending over 100 days. The birth took place at the Giant Panda Breeding Research Base, near Chengdu, in Sichuan province.

Honda Motor expects a strong response to a lower-cost, five-door hybrid vehicle it will launch globally in April, a senior executive said Wednesday.

"We're targeting sales of 100,000 units of this new vehicle in North America," said Dick Colliver, executive vice president in charge of sales and marketing for American Honda Motor Co.

Climate change campaigners set up their hamlet in Kent, southern England, trying to set an example in the shadow of a coal power station.

Much coverage of the week-long Climate Camp in Kent, southern England has centred on the relations between protesters and police. Climate camp activists are planning a day of mass action against nearby Kingsnorth Power station on Saturday August 9th. But what's involved in setting up a low-carbon energy powered site for some 1,000 people in a field?

An international report reveals almost half the world's monkeys and apes are facing a worsening threat of extinction because of deforestation and hunting.

Around 634 species were included in the report, of those 48 percent were classified as being threatened by extinction.

Indonesian police have found 14 tonnes of endangered pangolins or scaly anteaters stored in frozen containers after raiding a warehouse in Sumatra.

Police arrested 14 people after the largest ever seizure of the animals in Indonesia.

Tropical Storm Edouard hit the upper Texas coast bringing driving rains and winds near 65 mph.

Edouard did little damage to the major U.S. oil and gas producing region of the Gulf of Mexico. Weather forecasters predict the tropical storm will weaken as it moves inland.

Jon Decker reports.

An oppressive heat wave is making life difficult for millions of people in the American heartland, while a tropical storm stirs along the Gulf Coast. Residents along the Gulf Coast in Louisiana and Texas are bracing for the possible impact of Tropical Storm Edouard. Weather forecasters say the fifth tropical storm of the 2008 season has a twenty percent chance of becoming a hurricane by landfall. Jon Decker reports

NASA video shows an eclipse darkening the sky when the moon passes between the sun and the Earth.

The stellar spectacle began in Canada, tracked across Greenland and crept into Siberia, before ringing in the month of August in China.

Jul 7 - Perito Moreno ruptures during wintertime for the first time since 1917, but scientists caution against linking the rupture to global climate change.

Still, though out of the ordinary, scientists say the breaking ice has more to do with the glacier's alignment on land than with global warming.

Katharine Jackson reports.

Jul 19 - The Indian Ocean island of Reunion has been hard hit by both rising global oil prices and global warming.

Now, it wants to become an example for living without oil, and at a recent summit, Reunion outlined its plans to become 100% energy-self-sufficient by the year 2025.

Jul 23 - In the drive to create carbon neutral economies, makers of electric vehicles believe their time has finally come.

The industry buzz has been underlined at the British International Motor Show in London with manufacturers unveiling a range of new electric models.

Darcy Lambton reports.

Jul 24 - The bane of environmentalists, gas guzzling four-by-fours remain a noticeable feature of the British International Motor Show.

While sales of the bigger sport utility vehicles may have stalled in western markets, manufacturers say commercial prospects remain robust particularly in the emerging economies of eastern Europe and Asia.

Darcy Lambton reports.

Jul 28 - Only eleven days before the start of the Olympics, Beijing still suffers from smog.

With only 11 days to go before the opening of the Olympic Games, the iconic Bird's Nest national stadium in Beijing was shrouded in smog on Monday (July 28), despite attempts to turn the smokey and dusty Chinese capital into the promised pollution-free Olympic venue.