Known oil, gas and coal reserves may already contain a quarter more carbon than mankind can emit and still avoid dangerous climate change, putting the value of new oil exploration in doubt, a former oil major executive has said. Reiterating...
Brazil says it has found another “elephant.” This time it is a huge natural gas field called, Jupiter, which could match the recently discovered Tupi oil field in size. The field has been found a short distance off Rio de...
A "breakthrough" on deforestation is set to be the first success of the UN climate talks in Bali. Diplomats are said to be confident that the "road map" to a new climate-change treaty would contain a crucial reference to forests....
And its Happy Xmas to Big Coal too. Britain plans to build eight new coal power stations as part of the country's efforts to address its looming energy crisis. Although it is an early Christmas present to Big Coal, it...
This is getting silly. There has been yet another oil spill. Rescuers are trying to contain an oil slick from a small tanker that capsized at a port in central Indonesia yesterday, after it was loaded up with more than...
Auto makers finally face higher fuel efficiency standards in the US. Sort of. After years of holding out against anything to do with climate change, President George Bush finally signed into law an energy bill establishing higher fuel-economy standards for...
The American Speaker of the House of Representatives has announced she will request a new investigation by the inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security into the November 7th oil spill in San Francisco Bay. Central to the investigation...
"God is Brazilian," declared the country's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva after his government's announcement earlier this month that massive new oil reserves had been discovered offshore. Brazil's government and the state-run oil company Petrobras announced two weeks ago...
The US federal government has filed suit against the owners and pilot of the container ship that ran into San Francisco's Bay Bridge on November 7th. The suit, filed in federal court in San Francisco, seeks compensation for cleanup costs...
As hundreds of Russian soldiers have been deployed to clean up a 2,000-tonne oil spill in the weather has deteriorated, in the worse storms to hit the region in thirty years. Officials are now warning of "an environmental catastrophe" as...
