There is something of the ironic here. At the same time as scientists are meeting in Paris to put their final touches to the latest IPCC a report (which is warning over accelerated warming and melting), experts are meeting in Norway to discuss the future of the Arctic - one of its biggest threats is […]

Something of a melting ice feel to start this morning. Mountain glaciers are shrinking three times faster than they were in the 1980s, according to the World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS), which continuously studies a sample of 30 glaciers around the world. The acceleration is due to climate change.

Blair may be saying that a deal on climate could be in the pipeline, but every day our politicians dither, the science gets stronger. No more so than the latest report from 2000 of the world’s leading climate scientists, who argue that the effects of man-made emissions of carbon dioxide are being felt now on […]

The oil giant Shell faces a new accounting crisis as the ramifications become clear of its December renegotiation with the Russian authorities over its stake in the Sakhalin 2 joint venture. The company may be forced to cut oil and gas reserves on its books by up to a billion barrels after the halving of […]

He may be seen as a lame-duck Prime Minister in his last few months in office, but when Tony Blair closed the World Economic Forum in Davos, he held out hopes for a major breakthrough on a post-Kyoto climate-change accord as his crowning achievement of ten years in office.