Dr. James Hansen, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies and the nation’s leading expert on global warming, says we have less than 10 years to significantly decrease the amount of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases we pump into the atmosphere. He made that statement last summer, the first anniversary is coming up, [...]

One of the most prominent members of the Inuit community is pleading for an end to the expansion of London’s third airport at Stansted.
Aqqaluk Lynge will present evidence of the increasing loss of Inuit villages and hunting grounds across the Arctic and link it to Britain’s cheap flight culture.
His testimony will be given to the [...]

BP has secured a $900m (£455m) gas exploration deal with Libya, in a sign of Tripoli’s transformation from pariah to attractive investment destination for UK and US companies.
Tony Hayward, BP’s new chief executive, described the agreement as the group’s “single biggest exploration commitment”. The deal coincides with a visit to Tripoli by Tony Blair, the [...]

In what is being described as a startling reversal of history, a Middle Eastern energy company is pushing into the Canadian oil and gas market looking for secure supplies.
Abu Dhabi National Energy Company has said it has struck a deal to buy Northrock Resources Ltd., a Calgary-based oil and gas exploration firm, for $2-billion from [...]

US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi has urged President George Bush to compromise with other G8 countries to fight climate change at the G8 summit next week.
Pelosi and a bipartisan delegation of congressional leaders have just visited Greenland on a visit to see the effects of climate change at first hand. “There is just [...]