A controversial land swap proposal could open portions of an Alaska wildlife refuge to oil drilling, but the scheme is already dividing native Alaskans.
Supporters of the plan to exchange land in the Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge, which lies just south of the more-famous ANWR, want the plan approved before the pro-oil Bush Administration leaves […]

It is one of the biggest in Antarctica and, for the past century, the massive Wilkins ice shelf appeared to have escaped the ravages of global warming.
But now, enormous cracks have appeared in this floating ice platform the size of an American city. Scientists say it is breaking apart at an unprecedented rate after warmer […]

Isn’t the definition of insanity knowing what you are about to do is wrong but doing it anyway. And then doing it again. And Again. If this is so, this gets pretty close.
Britain’s Business Secretary, John Hutton, will call today for a huge expansion of Britain’s nuclear power in what he predicts could be a […]

It seems the Iraqi and American governments are not waiting to pass the controversial oil law to develop Iraq’s oil as things are moving a pace in the oil sector.
Last week, General David Petraeus called on “large Western corporations” to invest in Iraq’s energy sector as Iraq looks outside to boost oil, gas and power […]

Just days before new legislation in the UK mandating their use, there is yet more trouble for biofuels.
Professor Bob Watson, one of the British government’s top chief scientific advisers has said it would be wrong to introduce compulsory quotas for the use of biofuels in petrol and diesel before their effects had been properly assessed.