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“Illusory Picture” for the UK Shale Industry in 2019

The prospects for the shale industry are looking increasingly bleak this year as it haemorrhages investor cash, continues to experience widespread community resistance, especially in Europe, and fails to find adequate gas reserves.

Within Hours of Taking Office, “Trump of the Tropics” Starts Assault on the Amazon

Bolsonaro's decree could eventually pave the way for the dismantling of the indigenous reserve system, which would allow mining and oil interests to move into the Amazon unchallenged.

15-Year Old Oil Spill Could Become Bigger than Deepwater Horizon

It may be a New Year, but there is an old oil spill that keeps on spilling

Thank you Greta

The youth are rising, the climate rebellion is growing. Despite Trump, there are reasons to be cheerful for 2019. So thank you Greta and all the other young climate activists out there.

“Green New Deal” in US “must be mirrored by a Global Green Deal”

"The Green New Deal believes that radically addressing climate change is a potential path towards a more equitable economy with increased employment and widespread financial security for all."

UN climate talks “failed to align ambitions with science”

“My biggest concern is that the UN talks failed to align ambitions with science. We continue to follow a path that will take us to a very dangerous 3-4C warmer world within this century."

UN head warns it is not only “immoral but suicidal” if we don’t act now on climate

Just as the people of the Niger Delta have been demanding justice from Shell for decades, many of us have been demanding climate justice for decades too. But the hour glass has nearly run dry. The time to act is now. We cannot allow another COP to pass with just empty promises.

As US Undermines UN Climate Talks, Polar Regions Warm and Weep

As the US and other big polluters are accused of deliberately undermining the UN climate talks and promoting climate denial, there are further grave warnings from the Arctic and Antarctic, regarding the impact that climate change is having on our polar regions.

US, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait “wilfully ignorant and grossly negligent” at UN climate talks

Anyone new walking into a climate conference would be shocked at how simple words get argued upon for hours with the climate wreckers’ simple task of trying to increase the uncertainty of the science in the text or reduce the urgency of our coming climate catastrophe.