Bangladesh is often seen as being in the fragile front line of climate change, being especially susceptible to sea-level rise.
But now climate scientists are worrying about another equally dramatic effect – the retreat of the Himalayan glaciers that feed the great rivers on which the country depends.

After a decade-long search for oil from central Asian deserts to the floors of the Pacific, PetroChina has found an offshore field in Bohai Bay that could become China’s biggest new domestic petroleum source for years, with reserves of 2.2 billion barrels.
The scale of the find, if confirmed, would be welcome news to the government, [...]

Oil giant Shell may break with a century-old tradition and recruit a new chief executive from outside either the Netherlands or Britain. The prediction came yesterday after the company announced it was looking a replacement for Jeroen van der Veer, the chief executive, who retires in 2009.
Already Shell has persuaded der Veer to sign a [...]

The UK Environment Secretary David Miliband has said that dealing with climate change does not only help the environment but bring a “peace dividend” because the world’s “oil dependence creates real danger”.
Mr Miliband said it was “right” for a growing movement in the US to push for energy independence in the United States, [...]

The New York Times reports how “politicians who deny that global warming is a problem used to be the biggest obstacle to a solution. They’re not anymore. They have lost the argument”.
It continues: “When former Vice President Al Gore came back to Capitol Hill to testify last week, a few of the global-warming holdouts in [...]