Good article by George Monbiot in today's Guardian, attacking Shell and BP’s for greenwashing and spinning the truth. He talks about the BP spill in Alaska that we have been blogging about requently on the site. “For a company that...
The United Nations is coming under severe pressure from scientists and campaigners to acknowledge the devastating effect of climate change on the world's most fragile ecological sites. These include the barrier reefs of Belize and Australia and glacier parks in...
Some smaller species of animals, such as squirrels and birds, are changing genetically in order to adapt to rapid climate change, scientists now believe. "Studies show that over the past several decades, rapid climate change has led to heritable, genetic...
MoveOn has just announced it will lauch a new campaign for a clean energy future for the US which will start with their "Oil Free Congress" initiative that kicks off later this month. Along with health care, this was the...
Ex-Vice President, Al Gore, in the UK to promote his film on climate change, An Inconvenient Truth, has made his strongest attack yet on George Bush, describing his administration as "a renegade band of rightwing extremists". Showing a level of...
Saudi Arabia, the world's biggest oil exporter and therefore the world's largest indirect polluter, has finally signalled it will help the fight against global warming through, wait for it, helping research into reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the oil industry!...
A senior scientist whose work is being featured in adverts produced by the Exxon-funded Competitive Enterprise Insitute, has condemned them as "a deliberate effort to mislead." Professor Curt Davis of the University of Missouri-Columbia whose study on Antarctic ice sheets...
More bad news for corals. Whole stretches of pristine coral reefs have been turned into “slime-covered rubble” because of rising sea temperatures caused by climate change according to a new study in the Seychelles. "Some of the reefs have collapsed...
With the melting of the ice after eight months, the Anglo-Dutch oil giant is set to enter a crucial offshore construction phase in the development of its $20bn [£11.2bn] oil and gas programme. Wildlife campaigners say the price of the...
Now – you might start thinking we have it in for BP, especially in the Arctic region. No, this is not true. The company seems to be doing enough damage to its corporate reputation and the environment without us. But...
