An estimated 10,000 people joined the annual Walk Against Warming events hosted in capital cities yesterday. Alix Piatek reports.

The doors have opened to what Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) says is the country’s first zero emissions house available for sale on the mass market.

Environmentalists want to see a quick closure of Australia’s dirtiest power station by 2012. But workers in the area fear that Gippsland could collapse once more if the government turns its back on them.

There were 239 events in Australia for the International Day of Climate Action, Mie Tast reports on two major Sydney events that were aimed at Australian leaders.

Pedestrians on Queen’s Road Central stopped traffic for five minutes, Crystal He reports from Hong Kong.

The International Day of Climate Action on October 24th 2009 will be remembered as a hallmark of global protest action as millions of people around the world gather to call for their leaders to bring carbon dioxide levels down to 350 PPM. The message was sent in various ways from concerts and human signs in the sand to samba dancing and giant lantern signs.