No surprises here. Its not just the Australians who are refusing to play ball in Bali. The US has said it is unwilling to approve a draft agreement setting firm targets for cuts in carbon dioxide. The US said a...
(Bali, Dec. 16) A day after the dramatic ending of the Bali climate talks, many are wondering if the result was indeed best outcome possible given the circumstances. The US was brought back to the fold, but at the cost...
Its finally happened. Oil broke through the $100 a barrel barrier in New York today as a plunging dollar, unrest in Nigeria (see below) and Algeria and a cold snap in North America pushed futures prices up by $4 a...
The American Petroleum Institute has withdrawn its offer of sponsorship for a planned Smithsonian Institution exhibit on oceans at the Natural History Museum. Kudos to James Grimaldi and the Washington Post for exposing this story, and giving it the prominence...
As the world gears up for the Bali Climate Summit in December, last week-end saw three US presidential candidates present plans to combat climate change. Dennis Kucinich, John Edwards and front runner Hillary Clinton appeared before an audience of about...
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...
Just as the race to claim the resource spoils of the Arctic is heating up, so too now it seems is the race for the Antarctic. The UK is planning to claim sovereign rights over a vast area of the...
As part of the “No War No Warming” demonstration 68 protesters were arrested yesterday in Washington, after they blocked Capitol Hill employees from arriving to work. “The link between war and warming is oil” said Steve Kretzmann of Oil Change...
People concerned about the environmental and social downside of the tar sands boom, should read the Guardian today, with a long feature on the “dark side” of the frontier town of Fort McMurray, which is an oil sands boom town...
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who has made climate change a priority, will visit the Antarctic and the Amazon rain forest during a South American tour starting next week, the United Nations has confirmed. The visits will be "so that he can...
