World leaders are due to arrive in Copenhagen for the final crucial days of the climate change summit.
Barack Obama, the US president, who is set to arrive in the Danish capital on Friday, has said he is confident a deal can be reached.
But so far negotiators and celebrities alike have struggled to achieve any firm commitments.
Al Jazeera’s Alan Fisher reports from Copenhagen.
The climate change cofnerence in Copenhagen is barely under way and already a leaked draft agreement is pitting developing nations against their wealthier counterparts.
If the documents are accurate, the proposal would see more power in the hands of rich nations, the UN’s negotiating role sidelined and the Kyoto Protocol abandoned.
Deveolping nations are furious and say they will not sign on to an inequitable deal that they argue would limit their economic growth.
Al Jazeera’s Alan Fisher explains.
The European Union is asking Spain why one of its precious wetland reserves has been allowed to dry up so much that the peat which lies beneath the surface is on fire.
Ecologists blame the mismanagement of water resources and over-irrigation for the environmental trgaedy.
Alan Fisher reports from the Tablas de Daimiel National Park in La Mancha.
The Pakistani army is claiming a major breakthrough in its battle against the Taliban in South Waziristan.
After days of fierce fgihting, the military says it has seized control of Kotkai, said to be the hometown of Hakimullah Mehsud, the Pakistani Taliban leader.
But in the shadow of miiltary accomplishments, the fighting is forcing civilians to flee. More than 200,000 people have left their homes and still more are expected to follow.
Al Jazeera’s Alan Fisher reports from Islamabad.
Recent attacks in Pakistan, claimed by the Pakistani Taliban, have been followed by a major military operation by the army in South Waziristan.
Now into its sixth day, heavy fighting continues around Kotkai, the homeotwn of Hakimullah Mehsud, the leader of the Taliban.
Alan Fisher, in an exclusive report, shows the waves of people being forced to leave their homes near the border between North and South Waziristan as a result of the fighting.