Antarctic Sea Ice Research Undermines Climate Sceptics
One of the last arguments used to by climate sceptics to try and argue that global warming is not happening has just been debunked by a new scientific study.
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US Secretly Approves Hundreds of Offshore Fracking Wells
As the US shale industry comes under increasing scrutiny for its environmental and health impact, it has emerged that the US has secretly approved fracking offshore leading to billions of gallons of waste-water to be dumped at sea.
UK Government Bails Out North Sea; Gives “Nothing to Solar”
Last week, the British Prime Minster, David Cameron, flew to Aberdeen, the oil capital of the UK to announce £250 million emergency funding to “prop up the North Sea oil industry”; which is reeling badly from the low oil price.
A Living Memorial for Deadened Memories
Nigerian activist Nnimmi Bassey on the state's efforts to crush memory of the struggle against Shell
Huge Methane Spike in US “Coming From Fracking”
One of the main arguments that the pro-frackers put forward about adopting the controversial technology is that it is a clean, secure fuel that can be used to bridge the gap between dirtier fossil fuels and cleaner renewable energy.
Oil Spill on Sakhalin Island “Systematic” of Wider Problem
The leading Russian oil company, Rosneft, is currently under investigation by the Prosecutor’s Office on the Russian island of Sakhalin for a large oil spill which occurred last week.
Oil Bottoms Out, But is US Shale Too Wounded to Respond?
Eventually what goes down, must come up. And to the relief of everyone in the oil industry, the global energy watchdog, the International Energy Agency (IEA) believes that there are signs that oil prices "might have bottomed out.”
New climate research predicts “disaster for many low-lying cities”
It is no longer a question of "if" the unthinkable happens, but a question of "when". And the “when” could happen sooner than you think. For decades now climate scientists have been worried about what happens if the vast West...
“Adios Gas-Powered Cars”
“The typical American male devotes more than 1,000 hours a year to his car”, so wrote the Austrian philosopher Ivan Illich way back in 1974.
More Evidence Links Fracking to Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals
For some time now scientists have been warning about the dangers of fracking and toxic chemicals and how they might include carcinogens, reproductive toxicants and what are known as endocrine disrupting chemicals or EDCs.