Three studies published today on climate change paint a bleak picture on how global warming is already affecting us now, how it could affect us in the future and how the window for action is seriously running out.
The UK has followed France in banning the sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2040, as part of its plan to tackle chronic air pollution in cities.
History is repeating itself. Just as some of the pioneers of the current environmental movement in the UK, who cut their teeth in the nineties fighting the Tories’ road building programme were demonised and attacked, so are today’s anti-fracking activists.
"I call them ‘the expendables'. These men were treated like collateral damage, and they fell between the cracks in this toxic place.”
In a devastating rebuke to Donald Trump, the head of the US Coast Guard has admitted the United States is not ready to clean up an oil spill in the Arctic.
Who will clean up the mess if oil companies go bust as the whole fossil fuel industry goes from a downcycle into a potential “death spiral”?
