The directors of two Interior Department agencies said yesterday they're confident oil and gas exploration in the Chukchi Sea off Alaska can proceed without threatening polar bears that depend on the sea ice. The officials appeared before a Congressional committee...
Every week there seems to be a new report on the potential downsides of biofuels. This week it is the turn of British MPs. UK and European governments should not have pursued targets to increase the use of biofuels without...
The President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso is urging companies to treat the fight against climate change as a business opportunity and not a burden. His call comes ahead of Wednesday's unveiling in Brussels of tough new greenhouse...
Iraq has extended a deadline for international companies to register to bid for a role in developing some of the nation's prized oil fields, until February 18, the Oil Ministry has confirmed. Early this month, the Ministry had asked companies...
For those worried about oil sands development in Alberta in Canada and what they will do to the climate and environment, they might also have to start worrying about events closer to home. Analysts say the lower 48 U.S. states...
Shell’s two year tenure as sponsor of the London’s Natural History Museum’s “Wildlife Photographer of the Year” exhibition has come to an end. A determined, creative two year national campaign, coordinated in part by the direct action group Rising Tide...
Canada's Suncor Energy has said it will spend C$20.6 billion on an expansion scheme that will make it the biggest producer in the oil sands of northern Alberta. Suncor's board of directors gave the go-ahead for the Voyageur project, a...
Great analysis on the Bali conference from Charles Clover, the environment correspondent from the UK right-wing Telegraph, which we reprint in full: "As an exhibition of hypocrisy, the UN climate change conference in Bali takes some beating. The Indonesian President...
Kenny Bruno explains why "Just Hang in there 13 more months" was the unoffiical motto of the Bali conference on climate change. Despite a last minute dramatic confrontation, the recent Climate Convention meeting in Bali, touted as "the most important...
(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...
