The Russian government will double state spending on oil exploration to 2020 to $23 billion with the focus on oil in eastern Siberia to ensure a “good†replenishment of reserves, the country’s Natural Resources Minister Yury Trutnev said yesterday. Trutnev...
The pilot of a ship that spilt 58,000 gallons of oil into San Francisco Bay killing some 2000 birds in November 2007 has been charged with criminal negligence. John Cota, who was also charged with breaking environmental laws, faces 18...
One can only be highly skeptical about the news that Tony Blair is to lead a new international team to try to tackle the intractable problem of a deal on climate change which has the backing of both China and...
Flooded highways, railroads and airport runways are among the transportation snarls looming as the world's climate changes, and officials should plan with this in mind, a U.S. study says. "We're not just concerned about gradual changes in temperatures," said Henry...
The US government agency responsible for compiling the country's list of endangered species yesterday faced a new legal challenge over its failure to protect the polar bear. Environmental groups are suing the Bush administration in a federal court in California,...
Let’s keep those snouts in the trough. People outraged by big oil salaries will choke on the news that despite BP’s recent financial troubles, with the company reporting a 22 per cent fall in profits, its top brass earned nearly...
One of the authors of Canada's first national assessment of climate change, Quentin Chiotti, from Pollution Probe's believes fighting climate change "calls for an effort equal to dealing with global world war" but says that current efforts fall far short....
Iraqi Kurdistan keeps signing new oil deals, despite the fact that Baghdad is against it. A South Korean consortium has signed an initial agreement to explore oilfields in Kurdistan in return for major construction projects in the region, officials said....
The true scale of climate change emissions from shipping is almost three times higher than previously believed, according to a leaked UN study. It calculates that annual emissions from the world's merchant fleet have already reached 1.12bn tonnes of CO2,...
It’s a warning of biblical proportions. Food crops could be ravaged this century by an explosion in the numbers of insect pests caused by rising global temperatures, according to scientists who have carried out an exhaustive survey of plant damage...
