US president Barack Obama has promised to increase efforts to tackle illegal fishing and extend the existing marine protected area between Hawaii and American Samoa. The...
British oil company Soco has agreed to halt its oil exploration activities in Africa’s oldest national park, following a year-long campaign from WWF. The company has...
Greenpeace activists are continuing to occupy a Statoil rig in the Barents Sea, despite some having been removed by authorities. The campaign group has said it...
Oil giant ExxonMobil may have to put its controversial ambitions for operations in the Russian Arctic on ice because of the political situation in Ukraine, it...
A historic court case began in London today, as Britain’s high court opened a pre-trial hearing ahead of proceedings to be heard next year brought by...
As a warming climate opens up new waters to shipping and fossil fuel exploitation, researchers have warned that the US is completely unprepared to deal with...
Developing the shale gas industry in the UK could attract investment of £33 billion and create 64,000 new jobs, according to a new report that environmental...
Russian president Vladimir Putin has announced country’s first shipment of Arctic offshore oil. Gazprom has shipped 70,000 tonnes of oil from the Prirazlomnoye platform, which was...
Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell could face penalties over a drilling rig running aground off Alaska in 2012 after the US Coast Guard has said the...
Green party MP Caroline Lucas appeared in court on Monday charged with blocking a highway and breaching the public order act, after her arrest at an...
Royal Dutch Shell has announced a “reinforcement” of its priorities at a management day in London. But campaigners have urged the oil giant to rethink its...
Investors across the UK are being urged to call for oil giant Shell to abandon its plans to drill for fossil fuels in the Arctic Ocean....
Energy company Cuadrilla has announced that it intends to apply for planning permission to drill for shale gas at two new sites in Lancashire, in order...
Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell has announced it will suspend its controversial plans for Arctic drilling after witnessing a 39% annual net profits slump, in what...
Shell was wrongly awarded offshore oil leases in the Chukchi Sea near Alaska in 2008, a federal appeals court has ruled. The decision means that the...