Warming caused by human activities played a key role in 6 out of 12 extreme weather events that occurred last year, according to a new report....
President Putin has been criticised for the construction of ski resorts and infrastructure for the 2014 Sochi Olympic Games that campaigners say have devastated the Caucasus...
A canyon almost twice as long as the Grand Canyon in Arizona has been discovered buried under miles of ice in Greenland. It is thought that...
Today’s 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s seminal speech in Washington is a timely reminder of the lack of progress in racial equality globally. What racism...
Climate change could lead to a greener Greenland by the end of the century, scientists have said. As temperatures in the Arctic rise, plant life in...
Anti-fracking protestors have set up camp near the controversial exploratory shale gas drilling site in Balcombe, west Sussex. The five day ‘Reclaim the Power’ action camp,...
Shell’s profits in the second quarter of 2013 were 21% less than in the same period as last year, because of difficulties in Nigeria and tax...
Greenland – 80% of which is ice – experienced its highest temperature since records began on Wednesday. The new record, 25.9C (78.6F), was measured at Maniitoq...
Russia has entered the top five of the world’s biggest economies, with its $3.4 trillion GDP leaving fellow European nations behind, according to the World Bank....
A lack of transparency around the profits that energy companies make is undermining consumer trust, a committee of MPs has claimed. In a new report, the...
Greenpeace activists have broken into a nuclear power plant in south-east France and demanded its closure. The Tricastin site, which is owned and run by French company...
Six Greenpeace activists are in the process of climbing the Shard, London and Europe’s tallest skyscraper, in protest against Shell’s exploration in the vulnerable Arctic. But...
Energy giant E.ON was ordered to pay £3m on Tuesday after it was found to have sold energy-saving lightbulbs that, by law, it should have given...
Downstream director Ben van Beurden has beaten off competition to become the new chief executive of oil giant Shell, after current boss Peter Voser announced his...
BP, Shell and BG Group were responsible for 55 leaks of oil and other chemicals in the North Sea in the past few months, according to...