Climate change poses "serious security risks" and fighting it should be part of "preventive security policy", according to the European Union's top diplomats. The warning is contained in a paper prepared for an EU summit this month by Javier Solana,...
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,...
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...
