Three years ago today, the world experienced the largest oil spill in history, when BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico exploded, releasing...
The majority of fossil fuels are “unburnable” if governments want to stay within their carbon emission limits, according to a comprehensive report by leading economists. Unburnable...
Conservation group the National Trust has unveiled a £3.5m deal, in conjunction with renewable electricity supplier Good Energy, which will see it make its first steps...
Three Gulf Coast residents travelled to the UK last week to reveal the continued devastating effects of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill to BP’s board and...
Prominent environmentalist Bill McKibben has described Australian coalmining as a “rogue industry”, despite many new developments gaining recent approval in the country. The country’s government previously...
More than 50 NGOs from all over the world have signed a letter asking World Bank president Jim Yong Kim to take urgent action against climate change....
Danish author Bjorn Lomborg (degree in political science) gave a typically spirited defence of global warming in last weekend’s Sunday Times, describing it as a “joy“. He’s...
It’s a new tax year, and the opportunity to apply for 2012/13 ISAs has been and gone. But worry not; for Rebecca O’Connor, editor of Trillion...
Climate scientist James Hansen announced this week that he would be retiring from his role at NASA to focus more on climate activism. His decision couldn’t...
Oil giant Exxon Mobil is responsible for a major oil spill in Arkansas, caused by a leak in a pipeline that was transporting crude oil from...
A secretive cross-industry lobby group has criticised the renewable energy policies in the energy bill, as it says these will boost consumer bills. With the energy...
The UK’s greenhouse gas emissions increased in 2012, primarily thanks to the residential and energy sectors, statistics from the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC)...
Following a budget significantly short of green measures, the government last week announced a new wave of investment to boost the oil and gas industry. Improved...
A report published yesterday by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) explains that governments should reform their policy on subsidies if they want to see long-term economic...
Environmental campaign group Friends of the Earth has spoken out in support of the government’s chief scientific adviser Sir John Beddington, who yesterday warned of the...