It may not be the ski season, but alpine skiing and snowboarding may be under greater threat from climate change than scientists have previously thought, new research suggests.
A study of snowfall spanning 60 years has indicated that the Alps’s entire winter sports industry could grind to a halt through lack of snow.

More bad news for Shell in Nigeria. Nigerian President Umaru Yar’Adua has ordered the state-run oil firm NNPC to recover payment arrears of some $2 billion from Shell and ExxonMobil.
The sum supposedly represents outstanding payments on the Production Sharing Contracts (PSC) on the Bonga and Erha oilfields, accounting for about 20 percent of Nigeria’s total […]

As energy prices rise on a daily basis, anything becomes possible. First unconventional heavy oils from tar sands to oil shales have become economical, now it’s the turn of “unconventional gas”.
Just as we blogged that natural gas supplies are beginning to dry up, so energy companies are starting to exploit this new resource.

The British government should completely rethink its aviation policy and shelve plans to expand Heathrow and Stansted airports, according to its own influential advisory body.
The Sustainable Development Commission, chaired by leading environmentalist Sir Jonathon Porritt, said there were big question marks over the environmental and economic arguments underpinning the proposals for British airport expansion.

Global temperature rises should be kept well below the European Union’s target of 2 degrees Celsius to avoid costly damage to people and their lifestyles, according to a new European Parliament report.
European consumers must be given better information about the “carbon footprint” of goods they buy, including products imported from outside the 27-nation bloc, it […]