Although Hurricane Dean may be weakened, it is still battering evacuated oil rigs in the Bay of Campeche in the heart of Mexico's energy industry. Although weakened from its overland journey, Dean has moved over the Bay of Campeche, home...
The Democrat-controlled House of Representatives wants to spend almost $7bn in the coming year to reduce the nation's enormous carbon footprint, reports the Independent. This has put it on a collision course with the White House, which still remains in...
We know that the Bush administration has consistently tried to water down policy documents on climate change, both home and abroad. Now there is evidence that the White House's pointman at the bank, the now disgraced Paul Wolfowitz, personally intervened...
The shop around the corner raised the price of sandwiches by a quarter this week. Although the housing meltdown is raising concerns that it may take the whole American economy down with it, prices are going up and the reason...
Even after spending $2.7 billion in U.S. reconstruction funds, Iraq's oil sector has failed to achieve any of the goals to boost production, according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office. Indeed, the highest production levels were reached...
Interesting story in today’s Independent about events in Brandywine Street, a suburb of Washington DC, which the paper argues is “now on the frontline of America's fractious debate about climate change.” It reports: “Early on Monday morning, two masked men...
Yesterday the Independent highlighted how rising sea-level rise is causing catastrophe in the South Pacific, and today the New York Times reports of melting Himalayan glaciers, which “points to a looming worldwide concern, with particularly serious repercussions for India and...
OPEC-member Kuwait has reconfirmed that its oil reserves are 100 billion barrels, disputing a report that the figure was around half that amount. "We confirm that Kuwait's oil reserves are 100 billion barrels," acting oil minister Mohammad al-Olaim told reporters...
On the eve of the Live Earth concerts this weekend, Peter Hillary and Jamling Tenzing the sons of the first two men to climb Everest, have said the mountain is now so ravaged by climate change that they would no...
A Nigerian militant group responsible for most of the attacks that have crippled the country's oil industry has called off a one-month truce, the group's spokesman said today. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (Mend) called the...
