Welcome to Earth Platform, the environmental website that informs you about our natural planet and the emerging threats to our world today. With subjects like deforestation, global warming, endangered species and environmental pollution.

It's organised into clear categories: Nature, Animals,  Energy, Pollution and Organisations.

Earth Platform contains a unique Environmental Search Engine, giving direct access to a wide range of news, background information and related websites. You can type any searchword or words in the window on top of any page (e.g: plants, hunting, air pollution or climate change).

In addition, you will find links to relevant websites at the bottom of each page. Earth Platform provides newsarticles about environmental, wildlife, energy, pollution and Earth related issues. Last but not least, cast your vote in our polls and take a look at the results.

We hope you'll enjoy our Earth Platform website and search engine, and learn more about our planet's beautiful natural wildlife and environment!

Re-Release of Environmental Databases - On 1 July 2009, the Ministry for the Environment made the Land Cover Database and Land Environments New Zealand classification available online, for free and with an unrestricted Creative Commons licence. The new licence will allow the public to freely share and distribute environmental data and information without having to ask for permission if they want to use the data in different ways. The Land Cover Database and Land Environments New Zealand are now available online at http://www.koordinates.com.

Chevron fights Ecuador pollution lawsuit. - About 916 pits used by Texaco Petroleum and PetroEcuador are at the centre of what is shaping up to be the biggest environmental lawsuit in history, with $27bn in potential damages sought against Chevron, which bought Texaco in 2001.